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Oriental Manuscripts

1 copy of Muntakhab al-lubāb by Khāfī Khān, Muḥammad Hāshim, ca. 1663-ca. 1731

Author: Khāfī Khān, Muḥammad Hāshim, ca. 1663-ca. 1731 خافی خان، محمد هاشم

Title: Muntakhab al-lubāb

Title: منتخب اللباب

Title: History of India from the eleventh year of the reign of Awrang-zīb until the accession of Muḥammad Shāh

Language(s): Persian

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no. 1254

Physical Description

Form: codex

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History

Origin: 1237 AH; 1821-22 CE Copied from an original dated on 1183 AH / 1769-70 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of Professor E.B. Cowell (1826-1903) in 1903.

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

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