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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Akhbār-i ḥasīnah dar akhbār-i Madīnah by Samhūdī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1440-1506

Author: Samhūdī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1440-1506 السمهودي، علي بن عبد الله، 844-911 هـ

Title: Akhbār-i ḥasīnah dar akhbār-i Madīnah

Language(s): Persian

Samhūdīʼs own abridgment of Wafāʼ al-wafāʼ , translated anonymously into Persian under the title Akhbār-i ḥasīnah dar akhbār-i Madīnah

Incomplete, but supplementing MS. Elliott 362

References

Ethé 138

GAL II 174

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 70 ff.

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Shikastah

History

Origin: Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1132 AH; October 1720 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953

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JISC

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