H. 11 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: عقد العلى للموقف الأعلى. III Iqdu'l-Ulà li'l-Mawqifi l-A'là, a history of the conquest of Kirmán by the Ghuzz chieftain Malik Dínár in 581-3/1185-7, by Afdalu'd-Din Ahmad ibn Hámid of Kirmán. See Rieu's Persian Supplement, Nos. 90-91, pp. 62-63. This MS. seems to have been copied in 1269/1853 from the same original (dated Rabí I, 649-May-June, 1251) as the two British Muscum MSS., the colophon of the original being prefixed to the colophon of the copy as follows: تم كتاب عقد العلى للموقف الاعلى في ربيع الاول سنه تسع و اربعين وستمائة والحمد لله شكرا، تمر في شهر ذى قعدة الحرام سنة تسع وستين ومائتين بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية وصاحب الخط تحت الأرض مدفون الخط يبقى زماناً بعد كاتبه ، Ff. 77 of 15'4 x 9'8 c. and 17 ll.; neat and legible modern naskh with rubrica- tions. The text was lithographed in Tihrán in 1293/1876.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 77
Dimensions: 15.4 × 9.8 cm.
Layout
17 lines
Hand(s)
Neat and legible modern naskh with rubrications
History
Origin: 1269 AH; 1853 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The text was lithographed in Tihrán in 1293/1876.
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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