Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or 166 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Memoirs of the Mughal emporers Babur and Humayun up to AH 962/ AD 1554 by Humayun's sister Princess Gulbadan

Incipit: حکم شده بود که آنچه از واقعه فردوس مکانی و حضرت جنت آشیانی میدانسته باشید بنویسید

Incomplete at end

Language(s): Persian

References

Rieu, p. 246

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 83 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 23 × 14 cm.

Layout

Hand(s)

History

Origin: India; 11th century AH; 17th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased from the widow of Col. George W. Hamilton in April 1868

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on C. Rieu: Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London, 1879-83

Availability

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Digital Images

BL Digitised Manuscripts (full digital facsimile)

Funding of Cataloguing

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