The travels of Ibn Batuta : translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge. with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work / translated with notes by S. Lee, [and, Report of the proceedings of the first general meeting of the subscribers to the Oriental Translation Fund].

Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377.

Date:: 1829

Credit: The travels of Ibn Batuta : translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge. with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work / translated with notes by S. Lee, [and, Report of the proceedings of the first general meeting of the subscribers to the Oriental Translation Fund]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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LIST OF TRANSLATIONS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Class 1st.—Theology, Ethics, and Metaphysics. 1. The Cural, a work on Ethics, written by Tiruvalluven; translated by Richard Clarke, Esq, This ancient work, written in the purest style of Tamul poetry, possesses a very high reputation in the whole of Southern India. 2. The Sanc’hya Carica : translated by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq, This Sanscrit work contains in seventy-two stanzas the principles of the Sanc’hya System of Metaphysical Philosophy. 3. The Akhlak-e-Naseri of Naser-ud-Din of Tus in Bucharia; translated by the Rev. H. G. Keene, A.M. This Persian system of Ethics is an elaborate composition, formed on Greek models, and is very highly esteemed in Persia. 4. A Collation of the Syriac MSS. of the New Testament, both Nestorian and Jacobite, that are accessible in England; by the Rev. Professor Lee. This collation will include the various readings of all the Syriac MSS. of the New Testament in the British Museum, and the Libraries at Oxford, Cambridge, &c. 5. The Didascalia, or Apostolical Constitutions of the Abyssinian Church; translated by T. P. Platt, Esq., A.M. This ancient Ethiopic work is unknown in Europe, and contains many very curious opinions. 6. The Bustan of Sadi; translated by James Ross, Esq., A.M. This is a much-admired Persian Poem, consisting of Tales, &c. illustrative of moral duties. Class 2d—History, Geography, and Travels, 7. The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch, written by his attendant Archdeacon, Paul of Aleppo. Translated by F. C. Belfour, Esq., LL.D. This Arabic Manuscript, which is of great rarity, describes the Patriarch’s journey through Syria, Anatolia, Rumelia, Walachia, Moldavia, and Russia, between the years 1633 and 1660 of the Christian JEra. 8. The Tareki Afghan ; translated by Dr. Bernhard Dorn. This is a Persian History of the Afghans, who claim to be descended from the Jews. It will be accom- panied by an account of the Afghan tribes. 9. The Annals of Ellas, Metropolitan of Nisibis ; translated by the Rev. Josiah Forshall, A.M. This Syriac Chronicle contains chronological tables of the principal dynasties of the world, brief memoirs of the Patriarchs of the Nestorian church, and notices of the most remarkable events in the East, from the birth of our Saviour to the beginning of the eleventh century. 10. The Travels of Evlia Effendi; translated by Ritter von Hammer. This work contains an account in Turkish, of the travels of Evlia in all parts of the Turkish empire, and in Turkestan, 6ic. in the middle of the seventeenth century. 11. Naima’s Annals ; translated by the Rev. Dr. Henderson. This Turkish history comprises the period between 1623 and 1692, and includes accounts of the Turkish invasion of Germany, the siege of Buda, Vienna, &c. 12. The Asseba as Syar of Syed Muhammed Reza : translated by Mirza Alexander Kazem Beg. This is a Turkish History of the Khans of the Crimea, written about A.D, 1740, and contains many interesting particulars relating to Turkey, Russia, Poland, and Germany. 13. Ibn Batuta’s Travels: translated from the Arabic, and illustrated with copious notes by the Rev- Professor Lee. Ibn Batuta spent above twenty years in travelling in the fourteenth century. Besides giving very interesting notices of Spain, Greece, Ceylon, Java, &c. he gives long accounts of Nigritia, the Maidive Islands, where he acted as Judge for eighteen months, and China, to which he went as ambassador from the court of Dehli, at which he resided several years. 14. Ibn Khaldun’s History of the Berbers; translated by the Rev. Professor Lee. This rare and valuable Arabic work contains an account of the origin, progress, and decline of the Dynasties which governed^the Northern Coast of Africa.

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