H. 18 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: تأريخ نادری The Tarikh-i-Nádiri, or History of Nádir Sháh, composed by Mírzá Muḥammad
Mahdi Khán of Astarábád in or about A.D. 1757. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, pp. 192-195. A lithographed edition of the text appeared in 1282/1865-6, and Sir
William Jones published translations into French (Paris, 1770) and English (London,
1773) This MS. was one of thirteen bought from J. J. Naaman for £25 in May, 1902.
It comprises 120 ff. of 29'4 x 19'2 c. and 23 ll., and is written in a fair Persian nim-
shikasta. The copyist, Muhammad-quli ibn Mulla Dargah-quli of Tabriz, states
that he completed it in Rabí II, 1244/Oct. Nov., 1828, being then seventy years
of age, for a certain Ma'şúm ibn Mírzá Bábá Shuturbání of Tabriz, who was himself
sixty-nine years of age, having been born in 1175/1762.
Mahdi Khán of Astarábád in or about A.D. 1757. See Rieu's Persian Catalogue, pp. 192-195. A lithographed edition of the text appeared in 1282/1865-6, and Sir
William Jones published translations into French (Paris, 1770) and English (London,
1773) This MS. was one of thirteen bought from J. J. Naaman for £25 in May, 1902.
It comprises 120 ff. of 29'4 x 19'2 c. and 23 ll., and is written in a fair Persian nim-
shikasta. The copyist, Muhammad-quli ibn Mulla Dargah-quli of Tabriz, states
that he completed it in Rabí II, 1244/Oct. Nov., 1828, being then seventy years
of age, for a certain Ma'şúm ibn Mírzá Bábá Shuturbání of Tabriz, who was himself
sixty-nine years of age, having been born in 1175/1762.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 120
Dimensions: 29.4 × 19.2 cm.
Layout
23 lines
Hand(s)
Fair Persian nim-shikasta.
History
Origin: 1244 AH; 1828 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
This MS. was one of thirteen bought from J. J. Naaman for £25 in May, 1902.
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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