IO Islamic 4044 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Fragment corresponding to the opening of a much larger collection of formal inshāʾ or epistolary arts and official letters from the period of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (d. 1627)

Consists of the standard recension of the preface, except for the inclusion of anachronistic references to the reigning monarch, Emperor Muḥammad Shāh (d. 1748), and the omission of the section on organisation into bābs or chapters. This is followed by 3 letters with anachronistic references dating them to the early eighteenth century, with mention of Prince Rafīʿ al-Dawlah, Prince Sulṭān Muʿizz al-Dīn, and the same Sulṭān Muʿizz al-Dīn as Emperor Jahāndār Shāh with Kūkaltāsh Khān and Prince ʿAẓīm al-Shaʾn Bahādur

According to William Irvine, the fragment is suspected to be a forgery

Not dated

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