Ḥishmat-i Kashmīr.
- Holding institution:
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Ḥishmat-i Kashmīr.
حشمت کشمير - Creator:
- ʻAbd al-Qādir Khān Ibn Vāṣil ʻAlī Khān, active 1830
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts - Date:
- 1830
- Description:
- 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
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)
Manuscripts (documents)
History
Stained calf (bindings)
Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
Manuscripts, Oriental
Manuscripts, Persian - Geographic region:
- Muḥammadʹābād, Banāras
- Provenance:
- Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate inside back cover).
- Extent:
- 13 long lines; border-ruled.
- Publisher:
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Rights:
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- Lewis O 48
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World