[IO Islamic 1306] واقعات ايران و هند

Wâḳi’ât-i-Îrân-u-Hind

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1714 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 1306 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1714

Wâḳi’ât-i-Îrân u Hind (واقعات ايران و هند ).

Short historical memoirs by the same Ḥazîn (see fol. 2b, II. 1 and 2), who relates in them all the remarkable events in Persia and India from A.H. 1134 to 1154 (A.D. 1722-1741), beginning with the ‘calamities of Iṣfahân and the prevalence of the Afghân power’ (حادثات اصفهان و استيلاى افاغنه). They open thus:الحمد لوليه و نشكر على نعمائه و نسأله النّفى و نعتصم الخ.

This copy is dated the 17th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1183 (A.D. 1769, May 23), by Shaikh Karîmbakhsh.

No. 1306, ff. 60, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.