Or 16218 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

The well-known history of the Mongol rulers of Central Asia 748-948/1347-1541, also including the author's memoirs, by Mīrzā Ḥaydar Dūghlāt (d. 958/1551). See Storey, PL I/1 pp. 273-6 and I/2 p. 1274. Other BL copies: Or.157, Or.1715, Or.6477, I.O. Islamic 39. Abridged English translation by W. Erskine: BL Add. 26612, f. 55-166.

Begins: Basmala Iftitāḥ-i tārīkh-i jahāndārī va ibtidā-yi ẓafar va bakhtyārī ḥamd va sipās-i Ḥażrat-i Pādshāhī tavānad būd ki bar muqtażā-yi Qul Allāhumm Mālik al-Mulk sāḥat-i mamlakatash az samt-i taghyīr va zavāl maḥrūs va maṣūn ast

Ends: ki ba-barakat-i īshān īndu‘ā ki dar man ast mustajāb shavad va shuda bāshad Allāhumm Rabbanā ātinā fī l-dunyā ḥasana va fī l-ākhira ḥasana va qinā ‘azāb al-nār Intahà kalāmuh

Other contents: pencilled notes in English, evidently showing that the writer was collating the text in this manuscript with another copy: f. 395v, ‘missing folio begins / Chap. XLIV-XLV’; 396v, ‘missing folio ends’.

Colophon, f. 397r, headed Házih khātima. Copied at Indore, and dated Rajab 1305/December 1887-January 1888.

Nasta‘līq. 17 lines. Red headings and text frames. White wove paper. 398 folios. 275 x 163 mm.; text area 176 x 100 mm. Half brown leather binding with red cloth. The present manuscript formerly belonged to Sir E. Denison Ross, translator of Tārīkh-i Rashīdī (see Storey, loc. cit.), and was later MS. 169 in the library of C.S. Mundy.

Purchased from A Leverton, January 2006