IO Islamic 4065 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Mirza Ja'far, letters
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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
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Rough nastaʿlīq
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