Delhi Persian 1569* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Contents
Untitled translated transcript or naql of Act XI regulating land purchase and rents or mālguz̲ārī, passed by the council of the Honourable East India Company in December 1822, 1229 banglah, 1230 faṣlī, 1230 vilāyatī, 1879 samat, or 8 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1238 hijrī.
The text enumerates thirty-nine clauses or dafʿah.
Significant annotations in margins, possibly by the scribe himself.
Not dated at end.
Rough shikastah.
Persian and later intermittent pencil foliation.
Reddish leather binding, tooled edge, painted rulings; labels.
Folios bound; cropped, water and fungal stains, wormholes.
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History
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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