IO Islamic 4341 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Court reports on Sa‘adat ‘Ali Khan, Nawab of Awadh
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1 copy of Akhbār
Reports or akhbār, here entitled Zubdat al-akhbārāt, on events and transactions of Navvāb Vazīr al-Mamālik Saʿādat ʿAlī Khān Bahādur’s gubernatorial court and government of Awadh State
Accounts only partially cover the period from 4 Z̲ī Qaʿdah 1224/1 January 1810 to 4 Z̲ī Ḥijjah 1225/31 December 1810, comprising records for the months of January, April, June, August-December
Accounts additionally dated on reverse (recto face) with Gregorian dates
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. 274) being the earliest
Bundles of akhbār constituting sets of dispatches mounted as clusters along upper or lower edges
Pencil annotations throughout
Neat, scribal Indian taʿlīq
Date of compilation not recorded
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