IO Islamic 4032 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Ta'rikh-i Nasirshahi
Contents
1 copy of Tārīkh Nāṣir Shāhī
Official regnal chronicle commissioned by Sulṭān Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir Shāh Khiljī of Mālvah (r. 906-16 / 1500-10), ending abruptly with an account of the wounding and death of the rebel Shīr Khān, near Chanderi
Author not identified
Prefixed (ff. 1v-7v) by an Urdu summary (khulāṣah)
Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Clear, but inelegant nataʿlīq
. Scribe: Mahābīr Parshād, resident of Ghāsī, Aʿẓamgarh District
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
Record Sources
Availability
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