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Summary of Contents: روضة اولى الالباب لفخر الدين البناكتي The Rawdatu l-Albáb, a well-known historical manual composed in 717/1317
by Fakhru'd-Dín-i-Banákatí. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, pp. 79-80. This MS., which is defective both at beginning and end, formerly belonged to
Prince Bahman Mirza (died at Tihrán in Rabí II, 1277=Oct.-Nov. 1860) and
afterwards, in 1282/1866, to Prince Farhád Mirzá. It afterwards formed part of the
library of the late Sir A. Houtum-Schindler, purchased by me in January, 1917. It
is written in an ugly but legible ta'liq, and comprises 185 ff. of 23 × 15 c. and 21 ll.,
and appears to have been transcribed in Shíráz in 1272/1855-6.

Author: Banākatī, Dāvūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1329 or 30 داود بن محمد فخر الدين بناكتى

Title: Rawḍat ūlī al-albāb li-Fakhr al-Dīn al-Banākatī

Title: روضة اولي الالباب لفخر الدين البناكتي

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 185

Dimensions: 23 × 15 cm.

Layout

21 lines

Hand(s)

Ugly but legible ta'liq

History

Origin: 1272 AH; 1855-56 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS., which is defective both at beginning and end, formerly belonged to Prince Bahman Mirza (died at Tihrán in Rabí II, 1277=Oct.-Nov. 1860) and afterwards, in 1282/1866, to Prince Farhád Mirzá. It afterwards formed part of the library of the late Sir A. Houtum-Schindler, purchased by me in January, 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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Funding of Cataloguing

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