IO Islamic 4683 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Summary of Contents: A volume containing fifteen separate documents, mostly orders (ḥukmnāmah) and consultations of Ṭīpū Sulṭān. Several are in Ṭīpū’s hand, and almost every one contains annotations by Col. William Kirkpatrick into whose hands they passed after the fall of Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa (India) in 1799. The documents comprise:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 202 ff (excluding many blank leaves)

Hand(s)

Decoration

History

Origin: Other

a

1. ff 2v-8v

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah ba-nām-i ʻāmilān va sarishtahdārān-i ḥāl va istiqbāl-i taʻalliqah-ʼi Sīlam

Title: حكمنانه بنام ‏عاملان و سرشتهداران حال و استقبال تعلقۀ سیلم

Contains the seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 7 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 22.5 × 19 cm.

Seal(s):

Seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore

History

Origin: 17 Zuʼl-Q. 1197 AH

b

2. ff 10v-23Av

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah

Title: حكمنانه

Addressed to the ʻāmils and sarishtahdārs of Zaffarabad

Contains the seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 14 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 14.5 cm.

Seal(s):

Seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore

History

Origin: 15 Jaʻfari, Azal, 1198 CE

c

3. ff 24r-25v

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Qāʼidahhā-yi sar dādan-i tūphā-yi kushī…

Title: قائدههای سر دادن توپهای کشی

Regulations of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore, طيپو سلطان ميسوری for the different salutes to the fired on ceremonial occasions

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 2 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 31 × 30.5 cm.

History

Origin: Zaffarabad; Hydary, Jalaw, 1199 CE

d

4. ff 27r-50r

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah

Title: حكمنانه

Addressed to the ʻāmils and sarishtahdārs of Gulshanabad (Seringapatam)

Contains the seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 24 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 29 × 20.5 cm.

Seal(s):

Seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore

History

Origin: 1 Ahmadi, Dalv, 1200 CE

e

5. ff 71r-74v

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah

Title: حكمنانه

Addressed to the ʻāmils and sarishtahdārs of Hukoth? (Suklur?)

Contains the seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 24 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 24 × 16.5 cm.

Seal(s):

Seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore

History

Origin: 1 Ahmadi, Dalv, 1200 CE

f

6. ff 75r-101v

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah

Title: حكمنانه

Addressed to the ʻāmils and sarishtahdārs of Hukoth? (Suklur?)

Contains the seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 27 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 28.5 × 21 cm.

Seal(s):

Seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore

History

Origin: 1 Ahmadi, Dalv, 1200 CE

g

7. ff 102r-107v

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah

Title: حكمنانه

Addressed to the dārūghahs and mutaṣaddīyan for a survey of the country

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 6 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 21.5 × 14.5 cm.

History

Origin: 12 Khusravi, Sarab. 1217 CE

h

8. ff 108r-112r

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Ḥukmnāmah

Title: حكمنانه

Addressed to the officer superintending the fortifications of Seringapatam

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 5 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 15 cm.

History

Origin: 14 Jaʻfari, Sahar, 1220 CE; with supplements of 16 Haydari and 13 Razi, 1220 CE

i

9. ff 115r-125v

Author and Scribe: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Memorandum

Memorandum possibly partly by the hand of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore concerning his military and other establishments

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 11 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 20.5 × 16 cm.

History

Origin: Other

j

10. ff 127r-129r

Author and Scribe: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Memorandum

Memorandum probably by the hand of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore concerning his cavalry establishments

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 3 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 20.5 × 15 cm.

History

Origin: 16? Jaʼfari 1221 CE

k

11. ff 131r-148v

Author and Scribe: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Consultations

Consultations, partly in his own hand, of Ṭīpū Sulṭān of Mysore with his ministers on Babr Jang’s jāgīr, the return of his two sons taken hostages, a proposed tour, the Mahdavis, and Shūndījī Vāgh

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 5-6.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 18 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 23 × 17.5 cm.

History

Origin: 14? Haydari, Sahir, 1221 CE and 16 Ahmadi, Rasikh, 1222 CE

l

12. ff 151r-158r

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Lavāzim-i gurūh-ʼi jāt-i kāmgārī-ʼi qalʻah-ʼi Dār al-Salṭanat Pattan

Title: لوازم گروۀ جات کامگاری قلعۀ دار السلطنت پنن

Statements of labourers and workmen employed on the fortifications of Seringapatam

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 6.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 8 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 22 × 15.5 cm.

History

Origin: 17 Jaʻfari, Shadab, 1226 CE

m

13. ff 160r-169r

Author: Unknown

Title: Kitāb-i taqarrur dar māyah-i ʻalaqah-ʼi haft firqah-ʼi riyāsat…

Title: کتاب تقرر در مایۀ علقۀ هفت فرقۀ ریاست

Names, salaries and qualifications of officers in the seven branches of government

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 6.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 10 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 21.5 × 15 cm.

History

Origin: 22 Haydari, Shadab, 1226 CE

n

14. ff 172v-184v

Author: Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799 طيپو سلطان، فتح على، نواب ميسور

Title: Iqrārnāmāh

Title: اقرارنامه

A collection of documents concerned with contracts (iqrārnāmāh) of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

Contains the seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān, dated 1223

Copyst Muḥammad Ḥabīb Allāh, محمدحبيب الله

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 6.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 13 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 18.5 × 11.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Copied by Muḥammad Ḥabīb Allāh, محمدحبيب الله

Seal(s):

Seal of Ṭīpū Sulṭān

History

Origin: Two documents dated 15 Ahmadi, Shadab, 1226 CE

o

15. ff 186r-201r

Author: Nunjia

Title: A history of Mysore

A history of Mysore from 1162-1214 ascribed in an English note to Nunjia son of Subidur Veerana

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Sims-Williams 1986, page 6.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 16 ff

Dimensions (leaf): 23.5 × 18 cm.

History

Origin: about 1799 CE

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on U. Sims-Williams: Handlist of Islamic manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library 1938-85. London, 1986

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