IO Islamic 4038 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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History of Azamgarh

Title not stated in text

Alternative title on title page: Tārīkh-i Aʿẓamgadh

Author's name not stated in text

Anonymous history of Azamgarh, extending from Abhimān Rāy to 1887

Discrete section (ff. 37v-39v), entitled Kursīnāmah, on the genealogy (shajrah) of kings (rājah hā)

Printed Hindi text on reverse of title page (folio before f. 1)

Language(s): Persian

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

Filiation: Copied from a manuscript belonging to Rājah Salāmat Shāh Khān at Azamgarh

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 39 ff.; pagination: 77 pp (+1)

Dimensions (leaf): 168 × 215 mm.

Hand(s)

By at least 2 hands: 1) bold and attenuated nastaʿlīq with taʿlīq flourishes, unsigned; 2) rough, evidently rushed nastaʿlīq, signed: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

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History

Origin: 20 January 1907 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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_244r

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