[IO Islamic 611] Historical and Geographical Extracts

Extracts.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 728 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 611 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Historical and geographical extracts.

Contents:

1.A few extracts from a تأريخ مير ابراهيم الحسينى الموسوى (not met with hitherto), on ff. 8a-15b, 22 and 23, consisting of short accounts of the emperors Akbar, Jahângîr, Shâhjahân, etc.

2.Extracts from the Haft Iḳlîm, beginning with a ذكر هفت اقليم (a general account of the seven climates, somewhat like the preceding انتخاب), on ff. 99a-151b, and concluding with a مجملئ سلاطين دهلى كه در هفت اقليم آورده بتحرير مى آرد (the general account of the Muḥammad rulers of Dihlî, which is found on fol. 153a, first line sq. in No. 724, col. 406 above), on ff. 153a-176b.

3.Another extract from the تأريخ مير ابراهيم, containing a تعريف امصار (description of cities), and beginning with Akbarâbâd, ff. 177a-190b.

An index of these miscellanies is found on ff. 2b-7a.

No. 611, ff. 2b-15, 22, 23, 99-190, ll. 21; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 87/8 in. by 47/8 in.