IO Islamic 4634 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Yazdi's Zafarnamah, early and later copies in one
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1 copy of Ẓafar'nāmah by Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, -1454
The celebrated history of Amīr Taymūr (771-807/1370-1404) and Khalīl Sulṭān (807-814/1404-1411), completed first by Ibrāhīm Sulṭan, and then elaborated into his final form by Yazdī, and completed 828/1424-5. This copy was transcribed only four years after the author’s death
It is preceded by the iftitāḥ or muqaddimah, a genealogical account of the Turkish Khāns with a history of Chingīz Khān and his successors by Sharaf al-Dīn in 822/1419
Consists of 2 parts of differing dates: Part I (ff. 1-76), dated Burhānpūr, 12 Rabīʿ II 1023/22 May 1614; Part II (ff. 77-405), dated 7 Rabīʿ II 862/22 February 1458
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