IO Islamic 4037 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Takmilah-yi salatin-i Hindustan

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

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Copied from a manuscript in the library of Sayyid Ḥaydar Ḥusayn at Moradabad (U.P.)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 42 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 215 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough, but distinct nastaʿlīq. Scribe: ʿAbd al-Majīd, student at the madrassah of Amroha (U.P.)

, resident of Sherkot, Bijnaur District

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History

Origin: 15 Rabīʿ II 1314 AH; 1896 CE ; 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/6 6_38r

Availability

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