MS. A. Walker 77 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts A. Walker Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: An incomplete copy of the Āshūbnāmah-ʼi Hindūstān or Āshūb-i Hindūstān, the troubles of India, a historical mathnawī, from the time of the civil wars under Shāhjahān, A.H. 1067-1069/1656-1659 CE, by Bihishtī, Sulṭān Murādbakhsh's panegyrist, who was an eye-witness to all the events related in this poem.
Title: Āshūbnāmah-ʼi Hindūstān
Title: آشوبنامۀ هندوستان
Defective at end.
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 88
Layout
2 columns of 15 lines throughout.
Hand(s)
Script: Very careless Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: Undated.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.
Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953
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