IO Islamic 4047 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Alternative title: ‘Tārīkh-i Āshām’ and ‘Fatḥīyah-yi ʿibratīyah’

Fragment from a larger historical account of the military expedition sent to conquer Kuch Bihar and Assam (1072-3) by Mīr Muḥammad Saʿīd Ardistānī. entitled Muʿaẓẓam Khān Khānkhānān the sipāhsālār, also entitled Mīr Jumlah (d. 2 Ram. 1073/5 Oct. 1663), the former Quṭbshāhī minister, in the reign of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor, ʿĀlamgīr I, by the author Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad Ṭālish ibn Muḥammad Valī

Defective at both ends: beginning with the latter part of the preface and ending abruptly with Farhād Khān's departure for Lucknow

Not dated

Annotated by William Irvine at end; corrections and annotations in Persian throughout

Language(s): Persian

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Form: codex

Extent: 45 ff (+1): begins f. 69; ends f. 114

Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 140 mm.

Awkward nastaʿlīq and Indian taʿlīq

Origin: 18th century CE ; India

1913-08-15

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