Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4340 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Court reports on the Asaf Jah (Hyderabad)

Contents

1 copy of Akhbār

Reports or akhbār on the events and transactions of the Āṣafjāhī Niẓām al-Mulk’s court and government of Hyderabad State

Accounts cover the period from 5 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1224/13 December 1809 to 8 Jumādá al-S̲ānī 1226/30 June 1811

Accounts on single leaves and scrolls mounted in volume in English order, with each news or khabar leaf beginning on the verso side and mounted in reverse date order, the first folio being the latest khabar and the last (f. 230) being the earliest

Bundles of akhbār constituting sets of dispatches mounted as clusters along upper or lower edges

Pencil annotations throughout

Neat Indian taʿlīq

Date of compilation not recorded

Language(s): Persian & English
Title: Akhbār
Title: اخبار

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 230 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 463 × 202 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 5 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1224-8 Jumādá al-S̲ānī 1226 (13 December 1809 - 30 June 1811) AH Hyerabad, Andhra Pradesh ; India

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