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Munro, Sir Hector, 1726-1805 (8th Laird of Novar; East India Company Army Officer)

 Person

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Dates

  • Existence: 1726 - 27 December 1805

Biography

Sir Hector Munro of Novar (1725/6–1805/6), Scottish highland laird of the Novar estate and army officer in India. Munro was a soldier with the East India Company (1764-1782) and was the commanding officer at the Battle of Buxar (1764), won by the British, which led to him being appointed commander of the Madras army. In 1782 he retired to his estate a wealthy and influential man. At Novar he set about "improvement" of the estate, much to the distress of his tenants, and had at least one "East India" slave, who apparently escaped. (See ODNB, and Mackillop, A., 'The Highlands and the returning nabob: Sir Hector Munro of Novar, 1760-1807', in: Harper, M. (ed) Emigrant homecomings (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. 233-261).

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 149
Scope and Contents

A complete copy of a 30-leafed, or sī-varaqī, Qur'an. The sī-varaqī was a popular Qur'an manuscript format in South Asia from the seventeenth-century onwards.


The first two pages are richly illuminated with gold, and pages are gold-lined round the margins throughout. The periods are also gold-filled, and the binding includes gold-lined stamps.

Dates: undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

القرآن al-Qur’ān, 1135 A.H., 1722 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 150
Scope and Contents A complete copy of the Qur'an.There are inscriptions in the margins in Persian indicating the endings of a sūrah. The text of the Qur'an is preceded and followed by a short treatise of six folios on tajwīd (the correct recitation of the Qur'an), a sā‘at-nāmah (for consulting proper hours), and a twelve folio fāl-nāmah (containing rules for taking omens from the...
Dates: 1135 A.H.; 1722 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

پادشاهنامه Pādishāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text extant by 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 409
Scope and Contents The oldest history of the first ten years of the Emperor Shāhjahān's reign (1037-1047 A.H.,1628-1637 C.E.), by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī, who entered the emperor's service as munshī in the fifth year of his reign, 1042 A.H., 1632-1633 C.E.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) says, "This copy is particularly...
Dates: undated copy (original text extant by 17th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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