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ID: 303619
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Shelfmark Borg.ind.13
Date sec. XIX med.
Dated Mss 1839
Country India
Region Bengala occidentale
Place' Calcutta
Height 198
Width 152
Overview Descrizione generale della regione di Dehli, con una breve storia dei sovrani indù precedenti la conquista musulmana. Traduzione urdu di un'antologia di brani dall'opera persiana Khulāṣāt al-Tavārīkh di Munshī Sujān Rāy.

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Author Afsos, Sher ʻAlī Jaʻfarī, 1735-1809
Title Kitāb-i ārāʾish-i maḥfil, ḥāṣil-i mazmūn-i Ḵẖulāsah al-Hind
Uniform title Kitāb-i ārāʾish-i maḥfil
Incipit جلد اول۔ کتابِ آرائشِ محفل حاصلِ مضمون خلاصتہ الہند
Explicit من نوشتم صرف کردم روزگار / من نمانم این بماند یادگار
General note Due volumi in uno, foliati continuativamente a matita; originariamente paginati in modo autonomo: vol. 1 (pp. 428) e vol. 2 (pp. 232).
Bibliography Araïsh-i-Muḥfil, being a History in the Hindoostani Language of the Hindoo Princes of Dihlee, from Joodishtur to Pithoura, Compiled from the Khoolasut-oolHind and other Authorities, by Meer Sher Ulee Ufsos, Head Moonshee in the Hindoostanee Department of the College, Calcutta, Printed at the Hindoostanee Press by Tho[mas] Hubbard, 1808 (http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:003056079). Daniela Bredi, In margine all'Ārāish-i Maḥfil di Mīr Sher 'Alī Afsos, «Rivista degli Studi Orientali», 70 (3-4), 1996, pp. 421-439.

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Shelfmark Borg.ind.13
AuthorAfsos, Sher ʻAlī Jaʻfarī, 1735-1809
Uniform titleKitāb-i ārāʾish-i maḥfil