IO Islamic 3775 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Afghan genealogy, 2 untitled works

Summary of Contents: Collection of prose works on Afghan genealogy written before the 19th cent.; transcribed in good scribal nastaʿlīq possibly by Khvush Qalam

1. ff. 1r-40v

Untitled treatise on Afghan genealogy, described within the work as ‘īn risālah dar bayān-i kayfiyat-i ḥasab va nasab-i Afghān maʿlūm kardan ast’

Note at beginning, probably by William Anderson, states, ‘Genealogical history of the Afghans - copied at Kundahar, WA’

Transcription incorrect and full of omissions

IOL stamp absent

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

2. ff. 41r-60v

Untitled treatise on Afghan genealogy, described within the work as ‘īn risālah dar z̲ikr-i aḥvāl-i ansāb-i Afghānān mushtamil bar chahār bāb ast’

Dated colophon (f. 60v): Nasab'nāmah-'i Afghānān completed in Muḥarram 1256/March 1840

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 60 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 187 × 115 mm.

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History

Origin: Muḥarram 1256 AH; March 1840 CE ; Kandahar, Afghanistan

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