IO Islamic 4352 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Scroll assembling transcripts for trial evidence, over 100 documents (applications for appeal, appendices, original verdicts, supporting deeds, accounts, etcetera), submitted to the Court of Appeal (Ṣadr-i Apīl), ʿAẓīm'ābād (Patna, Bihar), in the case (muqaddimah) of Mūl Chand, appellant, and Dīgambar Singh, respondent/defendant (both residents of sarkār Saran, Patna), presented Wednesday, 14 December, 1796

Prefixed with lengthy list of contents

Ownership inscription at beginning in English

Headed by impression of the large circular trilingual seal of office in Persian, Bengali, Bhojpuri in Kaithi (Kāʾithī) script; the last two legends transliterate the Persian legend: muhr-i ʿadālat-i dīvānī-'i Ṣadr 1207

Adjacent inscription attesting to the accuracy of contents: naql muṭābiq-i aṣl ast al-ʿabd Nasīm Allāh munshī-'i ʿadālat-i dīvānī-'i Ṣadr

Impressions of the seal of office placed on reverse side, over the joins between paper sheets, presently obscured (along with other inscriptions) by stiff and opaque cloth backing

Torn, creased, warped, stained, wormholes; fragile

Estimated length 80 m