Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

IO Islamic 3958 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Irvine Collection

Insha collections and histories

Contents

Collection of Timurid letters, Mughal and Afghan histories

1. ff. 1-33

Untitled and unattributed, but substantial portion of the Timurid collection of private and official courtly letters, the Inshāʾ-i Mīram of Mīram Siyāh

Signed and dated at end (Tuesday, 12 Ṣafar 1198/1784)

Language(s): Persian
Author: Mīram Siyāh
2. ff. 34-138

Timurid collection of private and official courtly letters

Dated at end (Lucknow, 15 Rabīʿ I 1198/1784)

Language(s): Persian
3. ff. 139-166

Untitled account of Aḥmad Shāh Abdālī following the third battle of Panipat (1761), written at the request of Captain Jonathan Scott in 1169

Not dated

Language(s): Persian
4. ff. 167-210

Extracts from the official regnal chronicle for the reign of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Farrukh Siyar

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 210 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 205 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 18th century CE Lucknow ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/9_f069r

Availability

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