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Summary of Contents: سلسلة النسب صفويه A very rare and interesting monograph on the Safawi Kings and their ancestors,
entitled Silsilatu'n-Nasab-i-Safawiyya, compiled in the reign of Shah Sulaymán
(A.11. 1077-1105-A.D. 1667-1694) by Shaykh Husayn ibn Shaykh Abdál-i-Zahidi,
one of the Pir-zádas or descendants of Shaykh Şafiyyu'd-Dín's spiritual director
(Pir) Shaykh Záhid of Gílán. I have described this work in some detail in an
article entitled Note on an apparently unique Manuscript History of the Safawi
Dynasty of Persia published in the J.R.A.S. for July, 1921, pp. 395-418. There
appears, however, to be at least one other MS. at St Petersburg. See an article by Khanikof and Brosset in the Mélanges Asiatiques (St Petersburg, 1852), 1,
pp. 580-583, entitled Sac d'Ardebil vers l'an 1203. I am indebted for this reference to my friend
M. V. Minorsky.. The text is now
being printed from photographs of my MS. by Mírzá Husayn Kázimzáda, editor of
the Iránshahr at Berlin [The text was published by the fránshahr Press, Berlin, in 1924.]. The last date mentioned in the text is 1059/1649, when
Qandahár was taken by the Persians. Ff. 88 of 26'3 x 16'5 c. and 15 ll.; fair ta'lig with rubrications; no date or
colophon. Miniatures representing some of the incidents described occur on ff. 13",
19, 26, 35, and 80%.
Author: Ḥusayn ibn Abdāl Zāhidī حسين بن ابدل زاهدي
Title: Silsilat al-nasab-i ṣafawīyah
Title: سلسلة النسب صفويه

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 88
Dimensions: 26.3 × 16.5 cm.

Layout

15 lines

Hand(s)

fair ta'lig with rubrications

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

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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