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
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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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    H. 3 (9). «NJuiLj The Mawdhib-i-Ildhi^ a history of the Muzaffari dynasty by Mu ‘inu’d-Dm Yazdi. See Rieu’s Persian Catalogue, pp. 168-169, and his Persian Supplement, No. 50, p. 33. For a MS. dated 778/1377 (eleven years before the author’s death) see my Supplementary Hand-list, No. 1277, p. 211. This present MS. was transcribed only a year later, in Sha'bdn, 779 (December, 1377). It is written in a large, clear, archaic nastaPiq with rubrications, and concludes with a prayer for the reigning King Shdh Shujd‘. It appears at one time (1015/1606) to have belonged to the well-known Turkish euphuist Ways! (Veysi). Ff. 216 of 21*1 X 13*5 c. and 21 11. H. 4 (10). Another MS. of the same work, not dated, but considerably more modern than the last. It comprises 264 ff. of 24*4 x 13 c. and 19 11., and is written In a clear neat tadlq with rubrications. One^ leaf at least is missing at the beginning. It was acquired by Prince Bahman Mi'rzd Bahdu d-Dawla for his library on the 28th of Rabl‘ I, 1269/Jan. 9, 1853, and by me from the library of the late Sir A. Houtum- Schindler on Jan. 5, 1917. H. 5 (7). This book is something of a puzzle, for though its title Fath-ndma-i-Sdhib- Qirdni occurs on f. lo^ and the place and date of composition are given on f. (p as Shirdz in 828/1425, and it comprises an Introduction (Muqaddama) and three Discourses [Maqdla), and [Sharafu’d-DIn] ‘All of Yazd is indicated in several places [e.^. ff. 126^ 131^ and 135^) as the author, and though it begins like No. 190 of Eth6’s India Office Persian Catalogue (col. 82), it is in no sense “a plain and simplified edition of...the Zafar-ndmaP but rather a collection of letters and prefaces [dlbdcka), headed at the beginning In red: The chief contents, after the somewhat bombastic doxology, are as follows: r ^ ^ ^ jiS : (f. 5^) * (^' 3^^) w *.* Wi.w^iy9 : (f. 8®) 3 vt i «« « 1 * VaaaJ '*■ 14-2
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