Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 4498 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Revenues and description of Bengal

Contents

Detailed list of civil servants or ahl-i khidmat operating in the Bengal khāliṣah-'i sharīfah, up to the date 2 Z̲ī al-Ḥijjah regnal year 4 (Emperor Shāh ʿĀlam?)

Dated oval seals of James Grant at beginning and end: Jams Grānt ṣadr-i sarishtah'dār (sic) va mulāḥiẓ-i kull-i dafātir az ṭaraf-i dīvān-i ṣūbah'jāt-i Bangālah va Bihār va gairah, madār al-mahām sipah sālār-i Angrīz-i Kampanī, sanah 1193 Bangalah

Circular seal impressed on all folios (top right): Z̲iyāʾ Allāh Khān khānah zād-i Shāh ʿĀlam Pādshāh-i ghāzī sanah 2, 1119

Green leather binding

Not dated and lacking colophon

Foliated in Persian; 86 folios

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 86 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 129 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 18th century CE ; India

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