An incomplete copy of the Āshūbnāmah-ʼi Hindūstān or Āshūb-i Hindūstān, the troubles of India, a historical mathnawī, from the time of the civil wars under Shāhjahān, A.H. 1067-1069/1656-1659 CE, by Bihishtī, Sulṭān Murādbakhsh's panegyrist, who was an eye-witness to all the events related in this poem.
MS. A. Walker 77
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
An incomplete copy of the Āshūbnāmah-ʼi Hindūstān or Āshūb-i Hindūstān, the troubles of India, a historical mathnawī, from the time of the civil wars under Shāhjahān, A.H. 1067-1069/1656-1659 CE, by Bihishtī, Sulṭān Murādbakhsh's panegyrist, who was an eye-witness to all the events related in this poem.
Shelfmark
MS. A. Walker 77
Language
Persian
Contents
Form
codex
Physical extent
ff. 88
Hands
Script: Very careless Nastaʻlīq.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.
Provenance
The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.
Subject
Persian poetry--1500-1796
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