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Guldastah-yi Bihar

1 copy of Guldastah-'i Bihār by Rāy Bihārī Rām

Excerpts from a larger collection of letters found in the library of Rajah Chhabelah Ram of Gujarat, the compilor's paternal uncle, put into order for educational purposes and as a memorial to his ancestors (aslāf)

Fragments consist of the beginning and very end portions, amounting to approximately a third of the orginal work

The author variously worked as munshīʾ for Sayyid ʿAbd Allāh Khān the mīr jumlah, Rawshan al-Dawlah Ẓafar Khān, and finally the vazīr al-mamālik, Chīn Qilīch Khān Āṣaf Jāh, under whose patronage he was appointed the nāʾib dīvān-i khāliṣah-yi sharīfah

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 damaged and fragmentary manuscript completed at Shāhjahānābād, 9 Rabīʿ al-S̲ānī 1139 / 1726, in the reign of Emperor Muḥammad Shāh

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 28 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 270 mm.

Hand(s)

Clear nastaʿlīq

. Scribe: Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī (?)

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Binding

History

Origin: 24 August 1894 CE Bhitri ; 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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/9 9_56r

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Bibliography

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