[IO Islamic 840] Maâthir-alumarâ, The Second Edition of the Great Biographical Dictionary of the Famous Amîrs, Nawwâbs, and other Noblemen who Lived during the Reign of the Tîmûrides in India

Another Copy of the Maâthir-alumarâ.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 840 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 626 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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An addition to the same.

A shorter second or additional volume to the preceding work, serving as supplement to the first, and containing a large number of new biographies, arranged in alphabetical order like those in the first volume. It begins with Isma’îlbeg Dûldî and concludes with Yalankûshkhân Bahâdur. No preface or khâtimah. No date. Mr. Richard Johnson received it from Mîr Muḥammad Ḥusain in Ḥaidarâbâd, A. D. 1788.

No. 840, ff. 142, II. 21; careless Nasta’lîḳ; written, as it seems, by the same copyist who transcribed No. 622; size, 151/8 in. by 85/8 in.