Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4075 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Muzaffarnamah of Karam 'Ali

Contents

1 copy of Muẓaffar'nāmah by Karam ʿAlī

History of mid-eighteenth-century Bengal by Karam ‘Ali, a descendent of Navvab Mahabatjang, named after the ruler Sayyid Muḥammad Raz̤ī Khān ʿAlavī entitled Muẓaffarjang until 1186/1772

Most rubrics omitted

Purchase note at beginning

Defective at end

Manuscript terminates with an account of a visit by Middleton and Anderson to the nawab’s court; the last dated entry refers to the drought in Rajmahal in 1186

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 191 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 240 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 19th century CE ; India

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