[IO Islamic 2450] احوال عمارات مستقرّ الخلافة

<ul> <li><strong>Aḥw&acirc;l-i-&rsquo;Im&acirc;r&acirc;t-i-Mustaḳirr-alkhil&acirc;fah.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 731&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2450 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>731</p> <p>Aḥw&acirc;l-i-&rsquo;Im&acirc;r&acirc;t-i-Mustaḳirr-alkhil&acirc;fah (احوال عمارات مستقرّ الخلافة).</p> <p>A topographical and historical account of the principal public buildings, mausoleums, mosques, and gardens of Akbar&acirc;b&acirc;d, i.e. &Acirc;gra, especially those built by Akbar and Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n, compiled, from various sources, by a pupil of &Acirc;gra Government College, Sil Ćand (سيلچند), see fol. 6^b, l. 4, and colophon, at the request of Mr. James Stephen Lushington (مستر جمس اسفين السكين), comp. ff. 5^a, l. 2, and 6^a, ll. 7 and 8; and Rieu iii. p. 1031. This gentleman, who was acting collector and magistrate in &Acirc;gra, 1825 and 1826, had issued an appeal to the Government College, to supply him with such topographical accounts, and he received besides the present work a smaller treatise on the same subject, by M&acirc;nik Ćand, headed احوال شهر اكبرآباد, see Rieu iii. p. 958.</p> <p>Beginning:سبحان الله ذرّۀ بيتاب را بحضور خورشيد دستگاه عجز طرازى است الخ.</p> <p>On fol. 4^a a eulogium of the Governor-General of India.</p> <p>Among the numerous chapters we mention as the most interesting ones;</p> <p>Fortress of &Acirc;gra, with a table of inscriptions, on fol. 24^a.</p> <p>M&ocirc;t&icirc; Masjid, with illustration, on fol. 30^b.</p> <p>T&acirc;j Maḥall, with illustration, on fol. 51^b sq.</p> <p>Letters and firm&acirc;ns of Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n, &lsquo;&Acirc;lamgir, D&acirc;r&acirc; Shuk&ucirc;h, etc., on fol. 59^b sq.</p> <p>Mausoleum of I&rsquo;tim&acirc;d-aldaulah, with illustration, on fol. 104^a.</p> <p>Account of N&ucirc;r Jah&acirc;n Begam, on fol. 120^a.</p> <p>Akbar&rsquo;s mausoleum at Sikandra, with illustration, on fol. 193^b.</p> <p>Mosque at Fatḥp&ucirc;r, with illustration, on fol. 210^b, last line sq.</p> <p>This Kit&acirc;b-i-&rsquo;Im&acirc;rat (كتاب عمارت), as it is styled in the colophon (another title given to it is حالات اكبرآباد, see Rieu, loc. cit.), was transcribed from the original copy of S&icirc;l Ćand, who was a student at the Madrasah &Acirc;gra, by وسشن ضلع, for Mr. James Davidson (مستر جمس ديودسن); no date. The copy was purchased of Madden &amp; Co., 1st of August, 1843. Special works on the topography of the T&acirc;j Maḥall are noticed in Rieu i. p. 430 and iii. p. 958^b; Mehren, Cat., p. 47, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 520.</p> <p>No. 2450, ff. 218, ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; five excellent full-page illustrations and a table of inscriptions; size, 9^3/4 in. by 6 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>