Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

G. 10 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: تسمح جهان آراى للقاضي احمد المداري
نسیخ
An incomplete copy, ending with the year 927/1521, of the Nusakh-i-Jahán-áráy,
a general history from the earliest times to 972/1564-5, by the Qádí Aḥmad ibn
Muhammad, author of the better-known Nigáristán. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue,
pp. 111-115.
F 113 of 31'8x19'6 c. and 25 IL; written in a fairly legible but ungraceful
masta lig with rubrications; conclusion and colophon missing. From the library of
the late Sir A. Houtum-Schindler.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 113
Dimensions: 31.8 × 19.6 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

Written in a fairly legible but ungraceful nastaliq with rubrications

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

From the library of the late Sir A. Houtum-Schindler.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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