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

Title

Ḥishmat-i Kashmīr.
حشمت کشمير

Authors

• ʻAbd al-Qādir Khān Ibn Vāṣil ʻAlī Khān, active 1830
  عبد القادر خان ابن واصل على خان،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Brooke, William Augustus, 1754-1833, dedicatee
• Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Lord, 1774-1839, associated name
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 48
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2455309
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101189802
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2455309

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

1830

Place

Muḥammadʹābād, Banāras

Summary

History of Kashmir and surrounding areas. Begins with a eulogy on Lord William Cavendish Bentick and is dedicated to William Augustus Brooke of the East India Company, whose title was Ḥishmat al-Dawlah. There is a preface by the author in which he relates how he met Brooke and where he was sent on missions. He also mentions that this book is largely based on an earlier history of Kashmir, "Gawhār-i tuḥfah-ʼi ʻĀlim Shāhī" by Muḥammad Badīʻ al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Aslam and on meetings with, and a book by Sayyid Ghulām-Ḥusayn Khān. The work is divided into four chapters: 1. Kashmir, 2. Tibet and Kalmakistan including an account of Mānī, the painter, and founder of Manicheism, 3. Badakhshan and 4. highlands of Afghanistan

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from end of the author's preface (f. 11v)
   

Extent

189 foliated leaves : 269 x 168 (175 x 85) mm bound to 271 x 172 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Mottled leather over pulpboard with gold tooled frame; black leather doublure; blue painted edges.

Layout

13 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with text on cloudbands with gold fill with one section of 4 lines written on gold background (f. 1v-2r); final opening also written on cloudbands with gold fill (f. 188v-189r). Border-ruled in gold, red, blue with a page-opening frame rule in blue. Rubrications in red

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside back cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• History
• Stained calf (bindings)

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 188v — Cloudbands
• fol. 189r — Cloudbands
• fol. 189v — Border-ruled; unwritten
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "John Frederick Lewis"