UA SNED 35A, UA SNED 35B Two Orphaned Envelopes from Alim Beg to G.G. Ducarel
Title
Two Orphaned Envelopes from Alim Beg to G.G. DucarelAuthors
- Alim Beg
Other related names
- G. G. Ducarel, former owner
Call number
UA SNED 35A, UA SNED 35B(Ottery St. Mary, England, Sir John Palmer and Lady Dione Palmer Private Collection)
Publisher
Sir John Palmer and Lady Dione Palmer Private CollectionLanguage
Persian; EnglishOrigin
Envelope 1: The date is given as '1195 Bangla,' corresponding to 1788 in the Gregorian calendar. The date is given as the 27th of the month but the name of the month is unclear. Envelope 2: The seal gives the year 1198, but given that people did not always update their seal every year, this only dates the envelope to sometime after that date. If this is a hijri date, as seems likely since itit would be strange for the seal to postdate the letter by 3 Bengali years, it would correspond to 1783-4 Gregorian.
- Place
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Kolkata, India
Summary
Two orphaned envelopes with the seal of Alim Beg, Sharaf un-Nisa's brother, with both English and Persian writing. Envelope 1: It was addressed to Exmouth in English. The envelope has the seal in wax. Envelope 2: It was addressed in Persian only. The envelope has the seal in ink only.
Extent
Envelope 1: 3.6'' W x 6.1'' L; Envelope 2: 3.1'' W x 6.8'' LSupport
PaperScript
Provenance
- Palmer Family Archive, Devon, England
Keywords
- Correspondence
- Persian
- Mughal
- Early Modern
- Penmanship
- Bihar
- British India
- 18th century
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