A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson.

Edward Granville Browne

Date:: 1932

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The work consists entirely of short anecdotes like this, preceded by the follow¬ ing brief introduction: ul I I dSd I A ^ y J' ]>■* ^ w 3 .J^ A^^ |j3^ ^ AsJlJsuo j\ 1 ^»s»»»»»^ ^A^P ^aJapO ^ ^ The anecdotes refer to India, Andalusia, Rum (Asia Minor), Syria, Tabaristdn, Bukh4r4, Turkistdn, Yaman, Nubia, Daylam, Khurdsdn, Nihdwand, Adharbayjdn, Samarqand, China, Egypt, Sistdn, Kish (Persian Gulf), the China Sea, etc. It is worth noting that on f. 68^ occurs a quotation from the Firdawsu l-Hikmat of ‘Ali b. Rabban at-Tabari, of which the Arabic original has been found by Mr M. Z. Siddiqi, formerly Government of India Research Student in the University of Cambridge, on f. 241^ of the British Museum MS. of this work. G. 12 (12). The Tabaqdt-i-Mahmud-shdhi, or TdHkh-i-Sadr-i-Jahd^i^ a general history from the earliest times down to 838/1434—5 by Faydu’lldh ibn Zayni’l-‘Abidin ibn Hus4m, entitled Malikul-Quddt Sadr-i-Jahdn, compiled about 907/1501-2. See Rieu’s Persian Catalogue, pp. 86-87, 885% and 1079. Ff. 550 of 27x17 c. and 21 11., written in legible taHiq with rubrications, incomplete at both beginning and end and lacking colophon and date. The first half of the work is historical, the second biographical. There appear to be some dislocations, but the principal contents are as follows; The Prophets and Patriarchs, from Adam to Jesus Christ (ff. 1-30). The Ancient Kings of Persia (ff. 3i‘*-6i®). The Tubba's of Yaman (ff. 6i*'-7o^). The Prophet Muhammad and the Im^ms and Orthodox Caliphs (ff. 70'-! 70^). The Umayyad Caliphs (ff. 170^-198'^). The ‘Abbdsid Caliphs (ff. 199^-231’’). The Post-Muhammadan Dynasties of Persia, etc. (ff. 23^—306^). The Mongols (ff. 306^-347^). The Kings of Dihli (ff. 347''-396“).$