Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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)

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Filiation: Manuscript copied from the duplicate of a manuscript transcribed by Bihārīlāl, dated 11 Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah 1265 / 1849, for Sir Henry Miers Elliot (see Rieu III, 968) belonging to the library of "the late" Mawlavī Z̤iyāʾ al-Dīn, at Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh State)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 57 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 205 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear, but inelegant nataʿlīq

. Scribe: Mahābīr Parshād, resident of Ghāsī, Aʿẓamgarh District

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1 November 1879 CE Ghazipur ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/7 7_64r

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Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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