S. 3 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: مجمع الفرس A good, clear modern copy of the well-known Persian-Persian Lexicon entitled
Majma'u'l-Furs, compiled in 1008/1599-1600 by Muhammad Qasim ibn Hajji
Muḥammad of Káshán, better known as Surúrí, and dedicated to Sháh 'Abbás the
Great. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, pp. 498-499, etc. This MS., acquired from the Schindler collection in Jan. 1917, comprises
258 ff. of 29 x 17'3 c. and 24 ll. It is written in a clear and very legible naskh with
rubrications, and the transcription was completed on the 8th of Jumádà 1, 1254/
July 30, 1838. A second preface, composed in pure Persian after the completion
of the work and occupying both sides of f. 1, is written in small but clear Persian
ta'liq, and is dated two days later than the date in the principal colophon given
above. It is headed: این دیباچه خلاصة المجمع است که بعد از اتمام مجمع الفرس نوشته شد الخ Ff. 2-4 are blank, but on f. 2a is a short note in English in Sir A. Houtum-
Schindler's hand giving the title and authorship of the book, with a reference to
"Flügel 1, 101" (i.e. the Vienna Catalogue), and adding that "the author is
mentioned by Pietro della Valle as living in Isfahán in A.D. 1622."
Majma'u'l-Furs, compiled in 1008/1599-1600 by Muhammad Qasim ibn Hajji
Muḥammad of Káshán, better known as Surúrí, and dedicated to Sháh 'Abbás the
Great. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, pp. 498-499, etc. This MS., acquired from the Schindler collection in Jan. 1917, comprises
258 ff. of 29 x 17'3 c. and 24 ll. It is written in a clear and very legible naskh with
rubrications, and the transcription was completed on the 8th of Jumádà 1, 1254/
July 30, 1838. A second preface, composed in pure Persian after the completion
of the work and occupying both sides of f. 1, is written in small but clear Persian
ta'liq, and is dated two days later than the date in the principal colophon given
above. It is headed: این دیباچه خلاصة المجمع است که بعد از اتمام مجمع الفرس نوشته شد الخ Ff. 2-4 are blank, but on f. 2a is a short note in English in Sir A. Houtum-
Schindler's hand giving the title and authorship of the book, with a reference to
"Flügel 1, 101" (i.e. the Vienna Catalogue), and adding that "the author is
mentioned by Pietro della Valle as living in Isfahán in A.D. 1622."
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 258
Dimensions: 29 × 17.3 cm.
Layout
24 lines
Hand(s)
A clear and very legible naskh with rubrications. A second preface, composed in pure Persian after the completion
of the work and occupying both sides of f. 1, is written in small but clear Persian
ta'liq, and is dated two days later than the date in the principal colophon given
above.
History
Origin: 1254 AH; 1838 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
This MS., acquired from the Schindler collection in Jan. 1917.
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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