IO Islamic 3297 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
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India Office Library
Johnson Collection
Akbarnāmah. Vol. 1 by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak
Contents
Summary of Contents: Part one of the first book of the Akbarnāmah.Title: AkbarnāmahTitle: اكبرنامهIncipit: (book 1) (f. 1v) الله اكبر اين جه دريافتیست ثرف وشناختیست ...Colophon: Copied at Ḥasanābād, Pishāvar for ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz on 5 Zu’l-Q 1094 (26 Oct 1684).The horoscopes have all been left blank.
Language(s): PersianPhysical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. 236Dimensions (leaf): 343 × 187 mm.Foliation:European numerals stamped on recto.
Collation
Catchwords on the bottom-left corners of the verso.
Condition
Fair.
Layout
23-25 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq; copied in black ink, with headings and overlinings in red.
Decoration
Illuminated headpiece on f. 1v.
Polychrome text frames.
Additions:Richard Johnson's accession statement (f. 1r): Akbarnāmah-i sarkār Navvāb Ṣāḥib Mumtāz al-Dawlah Mufakhkhar al-Mulk Ḥusām Jang Mistar Richārd Jānsan Ṣāḥib Bahādur dām iqbāluh
Seal(s):Binding
India Office Library half-leather red, stamped Eyre & Spottiswoode 7 Jan 1909.
Arched‑top rectangular stamp (flyleaf recto): ‘India Office Library’.
History
Origin: 5 Zu'l-Q 1094 AH (26 Oct 1683 CE) ; Ḥasanābād (Peshawar), Pakistan.Provenance and Acquisition
Acquired in India between 1770 and 1790 by East India Company servant Richard Johnson, and brought to England on his return.
The collection of Richard Johnson—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.
This manuscript, formerly numbered 17.J.8, was one of many which were deposited with East India College at Haileybury and received back in 1860 after the College had closed.
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 245. Additional information supplied by Ursula Sims-Williams with reference to the manuscript in hand.
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