Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4065 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Mirza Ja'far, letters

Contents

1 copy of Gul-i Jaʿfarī by Āftāb Rāy bin Munshīʾ Lamūdhar Pandit

Excerpt from a larger collection of the official and private letters purported to be by Fakhr al-Dīn Aḥmad Khān, known as Mīrzā Jaʿfar

According to the preface, the letters were compiled and edited by the present author in 1235 / 1819-20

The fragment consists of part 1 only out of a total 8 parts

Addressees and references include the potentates of Bundelkhand and Malwa provinces from the period of the Second Maratha war; additionally mentions the reduction of Bundelkhand by Colonel John Baillie, General Wellesley, General Lord Lake, and others

Defective at end

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 101 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 247 × 179 mm.

Hand(s)

Rough nastaʿlīq

Binding

History

Origin: 19th century CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

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Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3.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 E207/24

Availability

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Bibliography

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Funding of Cataloguing

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