Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

I. 11 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: شرح نسب اردلان که جد والبهای کردستان است. An account of Ardalán, the supposed ancestor of the Governors, or Wális, of
Kurdistán. This MS., given to me by Mr H. L. Rabino and temporarily mislaid,
comprises the Persian text, written in a coarse but legible ta'liq on 98 ff. of 32 x
20 c. and 15 ll., and completed by a copyist named Muhammad Ridá on the 2nd
of Rabí 11, 1324 (May 26, 1906), and also an English translation or abridgement,
with some genealogical tables, by Mr Rabino written on 37 ff. of flimsy paper and
dated January, 1906.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 98 of main text, 37 of translation
Dimensions: 32 × 20 cm.

Layout

15 lines

Hand(s)

Coarse but legible ta'liq

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Given by Mr H. L. Rabino

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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