Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tārīkh-i Kashmīr.
تاريخ کشمير

Authors

• ʻAjīz, Narāyan Kaul, active 17th century-18th century
  عجيز، نراين کول
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 47
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2455304
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101189677
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2455304

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

India

Summary

History of Kashmir until 1122 AH (1710) written by a native of the area. According to the preface, it was written as an abridgment of the Sanskrit chronicles of Kashmir. The colophon says the work is Kitāb-i Rājah Tarnigī (f. 129v), but it is really an abridgment of that work. A second, incomplete text, Farhang-i Kashmīrī, a glossary in verse of Persian and Kashmiri by an unknown author and written on slightly smaller paper was added later after ten blank leaves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on author's introduction.
   

Extent

155 leaves : 210 x 125 (145 x 70) mm bound to 210 x 125 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto, number 121 is repeated; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in bronzed leather over pulpboard with blind-stamped and painted central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and double frames; red leather doublure.

Layout

13 long lines; border-ruled; second text: 8 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with text on cloudbands with gold fill and floral fill border rules in orange and pink (f. 11v-12r); textblock border-ruled in red, gold, blue with page-opening frame rule in blue; rubrications in red. The textblock of the second work is border-ruled in double red

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian
• India--Jammu and Kashmir

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 11v — [Tārīkh-i Kashmīr].
• fol. 140v — Farhang-i Kashmīrī

Decorations

• fol. 11v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 12r — Illuminated border rules
• fol. 154v — Border-ruled; unwritten