Eton Pote 278(1) (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Note concerning author: Faz̤lī is the author of Afz̤al al-Tavārīkh. Charles Melville found that work was related to Iskandar Beg Munshi's work of this title: Taʾrīkh ʿĀlam-ārā-yi 'Abbasi. See his discovery in Christ's College library Dd.5.6: http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bcai/31/30/. See also Melville's "A lost source for the reign of Shah 'Abbas: The Afzal al-tawarikh of Fazli Khuzani Isfahani" on JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4311148. Could this be yet another manuscript mixing the two works?!

Colophon details: Date: Undated Scribe: Anonymous.

Note concerning work: There is a note inserted in English (attributed to Klaus Rohrborn of Hamburg, 1961) stating that this is in fact the unique first volume of the Afdal al-tawarikh, the second volume of which is in the British Museum [now Library] Rieu Suppt 56. An English note in the ms itself says this is NOT Taʾrīkh ʿĀlam-ārā but the (unique?) first volume of the Afzal al-Tavārīkh of which the second is (unique, autograph) BL Or. 4678 - for that see Rieu, Pers. Suppl. p. 37 (#56). This work and this ms are also mentioned in Melville's article, who argues he has discovered the lost THIRD volume. His footnote 5 seems to suggest the first volume is known.

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