IO Islamic 3958 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Irvine Collection
Insha collections and histories
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Collection of Timurid letters, Mughal and Afghan histories
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)
Timurid collection of private and official courtly letters
Dated at end (Lucknow, 15 Rabīʿ I 1198/1784)
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
Extracts from the official regnal chronicle for the reign of the Timurid or Mughal Emperor Farrukh Siyar
Not dated
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