Delhi Persian 507B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Historical work entitled Rūznāmachah, a satirical account in refined prose and poetry of the campaign launched by Timurid (Mughal) Emperor ʿĀlamgīr I besieging and finally overrunning the capital of the Deccani Quṭb Shāhī Sultanate, Ḥaydarābād( Hyderabad), in RY 30 or 1097/1686, composed by the physician, historian, litterateur, prose stylist, and poet, Mīrzā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥakīm Fatḥ al-Dīn Shīrāzīentitled Niʿmat Khān, Muqarrab Khān, and Dānishmand Khān, takhalluṣ ʿĀlī(d. 1121/1710), who worked successively under the patronage of the Timurid (Mughal) Emperors Shāh Jahān I, ʿĀlamgīr I, and Bahādur Shāh I.

This copy is heavily annotated in margins and interlinear spaces, probably in the hand of Muḥammad Karīm Allāh, whose endorsement occurs on the first page (f. 1r).

Not dated at end.

Stamped foliation.

Rough scribal nastaʿlīq and shikastah āmīz.

Binding damaged (decorated paper spattered with red ink, edged with brown leather over pasteboards), labels.

Folios bound; occasional wormholes.

Condition fair.