IO Islamic 4030 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Jam-i Jam, tract
Contents
1 copy of Jām-i Jam by Sayyid Aḥmad Khān ibn Sayyid Muttaqī Khān
Information on Muslim rulers of Dihlī (Delhi), arranged in tabular form, entending from Amīr Tīmūr the Ṣāḥibqirān to the last Timurid or Mughal Emperor of South Asia, Bahādur Shāh II
Total 17 columns arranged by serial number, regnal title, father's name, mother's name, tribal affiliation, date of birth, place of accession, date of accession, length of reign, versified tāʾrīkh or chronostichon on accession, age at death, date of death, versified chronostichon or tārīkh on death, posthumous title, place of burial, comments
The author is better known as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, KCSI (d. 1898), the founder of the college (now Aligarh University) and reform movement
Not dated
Tract 6 of 6
Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Very inelegant nastaʿlīq
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
Record Sources
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