[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. 8^a-15^b, 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. 99^a-151^b, 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. 153^a, first line sq. in No. 724, col. 406 above), on ff. 153^a-176^b.

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

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

No. 611, ff. 2^b-15, 22, 23, 99-190, ll. 21; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^7/8 in. by 4^7/8 in.