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This is the third volume of a comprehensive history of the Mughal Emperors Akbar and Jahāngīr, continuing the latter's reign from his accession (1014 A.H., 1605 C.E.) to his death (1037 A.H., 1627 C.E.), by Muḥammad Sharīf of Persia entitled Mu‘tamad-Khān (d.1049 A.H., 1639 C.E.).

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A history of the life and reign of Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (1569-1627).

Scope and Contents

The well-known history of the Emperor Akbar the Great, by his favourite Prime Minister and Secretary, Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l " 'Allāmī " b. Shaykh Mubārak Nāgūrī. The author was in his time the most learned and elegant writer in the East.

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...

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The memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Nūr-al-Dīn Muḥammad Jahāngīr (d.1037 A.H.,1627 C.E.), considered to be spurious, and containing an account of the transactions of the first thirteen years of his reign (1014-1027 A.H., 1605-1617 C.E.). Polychrome triple frames.

Scope and Contents

The memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Nūr-al-Dīn Muḥammad Jahāngīr (d.1037 A.H.,1627 C.E.), considered to be spurious, and containing an account of the transactions of the first thirteen years of his reign (1014-1027 A.H., 1605-1617 C.E.).

Scope and Contents This is a short anonymous biography chiefly of Abū al-Ḥasan, entitled "Yamīn al-Dawlah Āṣaf-Khān", son of the vizier I'timād al-Dawlah. He was the father of Mumtaz al-Zamānī Arjumand-Bānū Bīgam, the favourite wife of Mughal Emperor Shāhjahān. Āṣaf-Khān died at the age of 72, in 1051 A.H. (1641 C.E.). The current copy has 9 folios is written in clear nasta'līq, is badly stained by damp and injured. It appears to have been written by the same hand and in the same year as OR MS 411,...

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A copy of a detailed history of the first ten years (1067-1078 A.H., 1656-1668 C.E.) of the reign of Abū-al Z̤afar Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Aurangzīb, the Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr, who died at the age of ninety, 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.

On thin glazed paper of a variety of colours and has an illuminated frontispiece.

Scope and Contents

A copy of a detailed history of the first ten years (1067-1078 A.H., 1656-1668 C.E.) of the reign of Abū-al Z̤afar Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Aurangzīb, the Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr, who died at the age of ninety, 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.

Copied for the donor, James Anderson.