IO Islamic 4547 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous Persian documents

Album of miscellaneous documents, letters, drawings, tracings, and maps from native Indian and British East India Company sources (predominantly in English), comprising transcriptions of legends on campaign medals, seals of the Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawabs of Bengal and Mysore (Tipu Sultan), Persian inscriptions on guns acquired from Tipu Sultan, calligraphic copies of Persian poems praising Tipu Sultan's palaces and forts

Boards detatched, fine marbled end papers; binder's notice: Thomas de la Rue & Co. Ltd., London, bookbinding contractors to H.M. Government

Notes by Charles Ambrose Storey (1931) indicating the contents of the album were assembled under his guidence

Watermarks: 1) Budgen; 2) seated Britannia in crowned oval frame

Unfoliated; estimated 100 folios approximately

Language(s): Persian & English & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 100 ff. approx.

Dimensions (leaf): 393 × 250 mm.

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History

Origin: 18th-20th centuries CE ; India & London, United Kindgdom

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World