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Summary of Contents: ذخيرة الملوك A well-known Persian treatise on ethics and politics by Sayyid Alí b. Shiháb
al-Hamadání (d. 786/1385). See Rieu, B.M.P.C., 447; Ethé, I.O.P.C., No. 2176;
Ivanow, A.S.B.P.C., No. 1380, where further references are given. Ff. 235 of 23'5 and 14'8 c. and 16 ll. Good ta'liq with rubrications. No date.
Ff. 1697-1742. have been supplied by another hand. The MS. was transcribed
by Muhammad b. Sháh Muhammad and afterwards carefully collated and corrected
by a certain asan b. Husayn b. Ghaybi (?) b. Shaykh Ahmad. According to
a note by Professor Browne on f. 17. it was bought at the auction at Sotheby's on
June 18, 1922, for 10s.

Author: Hamadhānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1314-1385 علي ابن شهاب همداني

Title: Dhakhīrat al-mulūk

Title: ذخيرة الملوك

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 235

Dimensions: 23.5 × 14.8 cm.

Layout

16 lines

Hand(s)

Good ta'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought by E. G. Browne at the auction at Sotheby's on June 18, 1922, for 10s.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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JISC

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