AN IMPERIAL FIRMAN OF THE EMPEROR AURANGZEB (R. 1658-1707) MUGHAL...
AN IMPERIAL FIRMAN OF THE EMPEROR AURANGZEB (R. 1658-1707)
MUGHAL INDIA, DATED 11 RAMADAN AH 1078 / 24 FEBRUARY 1668 AD
Persian manuscript on paper backed on cloth, the headpiece with 5ll. red muhaqqaq with extended verticals beside a large black seal, below this 9ll. black nasta'liq, the reverse with further nasta'liq and diwani on the vertical and horizontal, six black seal impressions, horizontal and vertical creases from folding and losses throughout
36 5⁄8 x 18 1/8in. (93.5 x 46cm.)
Provenance
The firman presented from the Emperor Aurangzeb to Shaykh Nizam al-Din Ahmad, 1668 AD, and thence by descent
Mawlana Jamal Mian Farangi Mahalli (1919-2012), Karachi and London by 1970, and thence by descent
AN IMPERIAL FIRMAN OF THE EMPEROR AURANGZEB (R. 1658-1707)
MUGHAL INDIA, DATED 11 RAMADAN AH 1078 / 24 FEBRUARY 1668 AD
Persian manuscript on paper backed on cloth, the headpiece with 5ll. red muhaqqaq with extended verticals beside a large black seal, below this 9ll. black nasta'liq, the reverse with further nasta'liq and diwani on the vertical and horizontal, six black seal impressions, horizontal and vertical creases from folding and losses throughout
36 5⁄8 x 18 1/8in. (93.5 x 46cm.)
Provenance
The firman presented from the Emperor Aurangzeb to Shaykh Nizam al-Din Ahmad, 1668 AD, and thence by descent
Mawlana Jamal Mian Farangi Mahalli (1919-2012), Karachi and London by 1970, and thence by descent
