Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

RAS Ellis Persian 8 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Nuskhah-i Ahwal-i Dikhaniyan. (From the note on f1b)

Sources mentioned: Jahangir-namah (f1b); Shahjahan-namah (f4b); 'Alamgir-namah of Muhammad Kazim, Ma'athir-i 'Alamgiri of Muhammad Saqi (f31). Folio preceding text: a) Colonel Meadows Taylor C.S.I from his sincere friend James Wandesford Butler. The Castle Drumcondra. August 20 1873. b) To Amherst T... Amherst from Alice Meadows Taylor. 1876. c) A.G. Ellis 24.11.21 F1a. Signature of Ellis with date, as on the preceding. F1b. a) Signature of John Ashworth. b) Persian seal of John Ashworth dated 1781. c) J. Ashworth to Wm Francklin 1793 F77b. Note in the hand of Ellis: Luzac. (Sotheby - Amherst, 1182) A number of English marginal notes. From the calculation under the last of these it would have been written in A.H. 1210 (1895-6). A selection of passages concerning the affairs of the Deccan under the Mughals, from Jahangir to Aurangzib, taken from a number of well-known sources, not merely the Jahangirnamah as in the note on f1b. Heading and punctuation in red.

Incipit: In ahwal az Jahangir-namah
Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 77 folios (excluding 3 blank and unnumbered after f30
Dimensions (leaf): 8.75 × 7.5 in.

Layout

15 lines to a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq.

Binding

Twentieth-century brown leather binding with simple tooling and marbled doublures.

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