IO Islamic 1 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
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Johnson Collection
Akbarnāmah. Vol. 1 by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak
Contents
Summary of Contents: Volume I, a slightly defective copy of the Akbarnāmah comprising Book I in two parts.Title: AkbarnāmahTitle: اكبرنامهIncipit: (basmala) (f.1v) الله اكبر اين چه دريافتيست الخThe first part of the first book is dated 1111 AH (1699/1700).
The second part begins on f. 235v and is incomplete, breaking off in the khātimah on f. 531r with the words مرا زندگ .
ٔFolios 527–531 have been added subsequently.
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. 531Dimensions (leaf): 375 × 184 mm.Foliation:European numerals stamped on recto.
Collation
Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.
Condition
Fair.
Layout
19 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Large clear nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red.
Additions:Note in Persian on f. 1r by former owner Lachhmī Narāyan Shafīq Awrangābādī (b. 1745), saying that the manuscript was acquired 25 Jumadi I 1177 (1 Dec 1763) via Ḥājjī Sulṭān saḥḥāf, accompanied by his oval seal.
Note in Persian, presumably by Richard Johnson's munshi, recording purchase in Hyderbabad as one of 11 vols for RS 500.
Seal(s):Binding
Half-leather early twentieth-century red India Office Library binding.
Oval seal of former owner (f. 1r): Shafīq 1178 (1764/65).
Oval stamp (ff. 1r, 531v): ‘EI Company Library’.
History
Origin: 1111 AH (1699-70 CE) ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
Acquired by Lachhmī Narāyan Shafīq Awrangābādī from the bookseller Ḥājjī Sulṭān on 25 Jumadi I, 1177 (1 Dec 1763) with IO Islamic 2 and 6, as part of a 3 vol. set costing RS 157 (see IO Islamic 6).
Subsequently sold to Richard Johnson, East India Company Resident in Hyderabad 1784-5, for RS 500 as one of 11 mss.
The Johnson collection—comprising 64 albums of paintings and an estimated 1,000 manuscripts—was purchased by the East India Company Library for 3,000 guineas on 18 February 1807.
Record Sources
Based on H. Ethé's description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, vol. I (Oxford: Printed for the India Office by H. Hart, 1903), Ethé 237, with additional detail added by Ursula Sims-Williams.
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