Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4351 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Scroll of transcripts for trial evidence, 81 documents

Contents

Scroll of transcripts for trial evidence, 81 documents (transcripts of appeal, appendices, original verdicts, deeds, accounts, etc.), compiled by Mīrzā Muḥammadī Bayg, attorney (vakīl) at the Court of Appeal, ʿAẓīm'ābād (Patna, Bihar), in the trial case of Rajah Muni/Mani Nath Singh (defendant) and Bharath Singh (appellant) regarding a mortgage (rahn)

Over 81 lengthy sheets attached together, each join has court seals (‘muhr-i ʿadālat-i Dīvānī-'i Ṣadr 1207/1792-3’, repeated in Bengali and Kaithi) on reverse; cloth backing; wooden dowels at beginning and end

Inscription at beginning, possibly stating the name of an official or previous owner, torn; stained; unevenly cut along vertical edges

Language(s): Persian, Bengali, Kaithi, and English

Physical Description

Form: scroll
Extent: 1 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 55550 × 154 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1207 (1792 - 1794) AH ; Patna, India

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