Mogul Empire -- History
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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
احوال اولادو جائداد سید احمد ساندوی Aḥwāl-i Aulād-u Ja'idād-i Sayyid Aḥmad Sāndwī, 1230 A.H., 1814 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 89
Scope and Contents
This work was compiled by 'Alī Naqī Khān, under instructions from the Governor-General of India, to clear up certain complications which had arisen in regard to the disposal of the estate in Oudh in the possession of the descendants of Sayyid Aḥmad Sāndwī.
Dates:
1230 A.H.; 1814 C.E.
اقبال نامهٔ جهانگيری Iqbāl-nāmah-yi Jahāngīrī, 1737 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 213
Scope and Contents
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.).
Dates:
1737 C.E.
اقبال نامهٔ جهانگیری Iqbāl-nāmah-i Jahāngīrī, 1189 A.H., 1775 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 80
Scope and Contents
A history of the life and reign of Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (1569-1627).
Dates:
1189 A.H.; 1775 C.E.
اکبرنامه Akbar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 78
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.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
انتظام راج اعظم گڙه Intiẓām-i Rāj-i A‘ẓamgaṛh, undated (original text compiled 19th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 237
Scope and Contents
The story of the rulers of A‘ẓamgaṛh (a Ta‘alluqah in the United Provinces of India), from the time of Abhman-Singh and Sagar-Rāi, sons of Chand-Sen, of the tribe of Rajpūts and Zamīndārs of Mahnagar (in the parganah of Niẓāmābād), till the death of the Rānī, wife of the Rājah Muḥammad A‘ẓam Khān, and end of the rūj (rule).The work, which in its composition is interspersed with numerous verses, was compiled by Girdhāri (see introduction), a ...
Dates:
undated (original text compiled 19th cent. C.E.)
بهاونامه Bhāo-nāmah, 1199 A.H., 1783 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 228
Scope and Contents
An account of the third decisive battle, which was fought at Pānīpat, on the 6th of Jumādá II, 1174 A.H. (14th January, 1761 C.E.), between Aḥmad-Shāh Abdālī (Durrānī-Shāh, d.1182 A.H., 1772 C.E.) and the Marathas, when the power of the latter, who were under the leadership of Sadāsheo-Bhāo, son of Chimnāji (and nephew of Balāji-Bājī-Rāo, the Peshwa) was apparently crushed. This account was written by a Hindu (in the service of Nawwāb Shuja' al-Dawlah), who was present at the famous...
Dates:
1199 A.H.; 1783 C.E.
بهاونامه Bhāo-nāmah, 1198 A.H., 1783 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 229
Scope and Contents
An account of the third decisive battle, which was fought at Pānīpat, on the 6th of Jumādá II, 1174 A.H. (14th January, 1761 C.E.), between Aḥmad-Shāh Abdālī (Durrānī-Shāh, d.1182 A.H., 1772 C.E.) and the Marathas, when the power of the latter, who were under the leadership of Sadāsheo-Bhāo, son of Chimnāji (and nephew of Balāji-Bājī-Rāo, the Peshwa) was apparently crushed. This account was written by a Hindu (in the service of Nawwāb Shuja' al-Dawlah), who was present at the famous...
Dates:
1198 A.H.; 1783 C.E.
پادشاهنامه Pādishāh-nāmah, undated copy (original text extant by 17th cent. C.E.)
Item
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.)
تأريخ بنگاله Ta’rīkh-i Bangālah, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 231
Scope and Contents
A history of Bengal, compiled by the order of Nawwāb Naṣīr al-Mulk Shams al-Dawlah Bahādur Tahawwur-Jang.
Dates:
undated