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1 copy of Ruqʻāt-i Amān Allāh Ḥusaynī by Amān Allāh Khānah-zād Khān‏

Author: Amān Allāh Khānah-zād Khān‏ Amān Allāh Khān ibn Maḥabbat Khān, d. 1634-5 or 1636-7 أمان الله خانهزاد خان أمان الله خان بن محبت خان
Title: Ruqʻāt-i Amān Allāh Ḥusaynī
Title: رقعات أمان الله حسيني
Incipit: حمد وافر مر خدايرا

Short examples of elegant personal correspondence.

Language(s): Persian

References

Storey III, pt. 2, No. 450.
E.I.O, 1763(7), 2934.
Rieu, 877.
Bahar, 270(2).
Pertsch, 129.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 32
Dimensions (leaf): 21.7 × 15.1 cm.
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Taʻlīq - Shikastah-āmīz

Binding

Cloth and boards.

History

Origin: 15th Shaʻbān 1214 AH; 12th January 1800 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Seals of Muḥammad Khān, 1226/1811-12, and Aḥmad Ḥusayn, 1282/1865-66.

A. H. Harley.

The collections of Mr. Simon Digby.

Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by the Trustees of the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, April 2015.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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