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Summary of Contents: مطلع السعدين The Maṭlaʻu's-Saʻdayn, a well-known and valuable history of the period (A.H. 716-875 A.D. 1316-1470-1) intervening between the accession of Abú Saʻíd the Mongol (b. 704/1305; d. 736/1335-6) and the death of Abú Saʻíd the Tímúrid (the "Busech" of the Venetian travellers in Persia) and accession of Abu'l-Ghází Sultán Ḥusayn. It is in allusion to these two Abú Saʻíds that this history (though it deals chiefly with the reign and career of Tímúr, who was born in the same year as that in which the first Abú Saʻíd died) is entitled Maṭlaʻu's-Saʻdayn ("the Rising-place of the two Fortunate Planets"). Full particulars concerning the work and its author, Kamálu'd-Dín 'Abdu'r-Razzáq of Samarqand, are given by Rieu on pp. 181-182 of his Persian Catalogue. Besides the authorities there cited, see my Persian Literature under Tartar Dominion, pp. 428-430. There is a good MS. in the library of Christ's College, Cambridge, marked Dd. 3. 5. Vol. I ends on f. 180 and is dated in the colophon the 22nd of Jumádà II, 1019 (Sept. 12, 1610). Written throughout in a coarse but legible ta'liq with rubrications.

Vol. 1

Author: ʻAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī, 1413-1482 عبد الرزاق كمال الدين ابن اسحاق السمرقندى

Title: Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn

Title: مطلع السعدين

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 1-180

Dimensions (leaf): 36.8 × 28.7 cm.

Layout

31 lines

Hand(s)

Written throughout in a coarse but legible ta'liq with rubrications.

History

Origin: 1019 AH; 1610 CE (colophon on f. 180: 22 Jumádà II, 1019/Sept. 12, 1610).

Provenance and Acquisition

Part of the library of the late Sir A. Houtum-Schindler, purchased by me in January, 1917.

Passed to Cambridge University Library in 1936 (the "Browne Bequest").

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on. R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932. ", abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Bibliography

Work in two volumes bearing the class-marks: H. 8.1 and H. 8.2.

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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