IO Islamic 4037 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Takmilah-yi salatin-i Hindustan
Contents
1 copy of Takmīlah-'i salāṭīn-i Hindūstān
Title not stated
Author's name not stated in text
Inscription on title page (of probably doubtful authenticity) entitles the work, Z̲ikr al-Mulūk, and ascribes it to Rafīʿ al-Dīn Khān
Anonymous continuation of the general history of South Asian kings, Z̲ikr al-Mulūk, by the seventeenth-century muḥaddis̲ and scholar, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī, extending from the reign of Timurid or Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr to that of Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam, ending in 1194 / 1780
The narrative also includes accounts of the major contemporary Deccani kingdoms
Not dated
Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Rough, but distinct nastaʿlīq. Scribe: ʿAbd al-Majīd, student at the madrassah of Amroha (U.P.)
, resident of Sherkot, Bijnaur District
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
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