I. 2 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: رساله محاسن اصفهان (ترجمه فارسی). A MS. of the Persian version of the Mahasin-i-Isfahan made by Husayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Abi'r-Ridá al-Husayní al-'Alawi in or about the year 729/1329. Another MS. of this work belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society was fully described by me in the Journal of that Society for 1901 (vol. xxxIII, pp. 411-446 and 661-704), to which I added in a postscript some account of another MS. formerly belonging to M. Charles Schefer, and now preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale under the class-mark Suppl. Persan 1573. The translator has dealt very freely with his original, both as regards rearrangement of matter and additions and suppressions, but in most cases the parallel passages can be found. The translator divides his work into eight chapters entitled dhikr as follows (f. 11): ذكر اول (170-12 (f) بر وصف اصفهان بر سبیل اجمال ذكر دوم (170) (f) در تفصیل آن بر سایر بلدان بطريق تفصيل ذكر سیم ( 30 ) در حدیث گاوخوانی و خواص و نوادر نواحی آن ذکر چهارم (32) (R) در محاسن داخلی و خارجی از تعداد مقامات و اماکن و عمارات و تعیین حقوق و متوجّهات قديم الايام و عصر مترجم ذكر پنجم (260 (IT) در فرمان برداری اصفهانیان حاكم را و قوت نفس و تأثیر همت ایشان و آنکه هرکس قصد ایشان ببدی کرده زیانی مالی یا مضرتی نفسی بدو عاید گشته ذكر ششم ( (IT) در اسامی ملوک و فراعنه و اكاسره كـه منشأ و منجم ایشان آنجا بوده مضاف با بعضی نوادر و غرایب كلمات ضعفاء ناس مانند زنان و مجانین و مخنثين ذكر هفتم (1484 در فصول اربعه و آثار و نتایج آن و کیفیت تنعم و تعيش اهل بقعه ذکر هشتم ( 88 ) در وصف کوهچه و مصلی و اسماء الرّجال و فضلا و علما و فلاسفه و فقها و مشايخ و اكابر متقدمان و متأخّران عصر صاحب محاسن و مترجم و بعضی قصاید و اشعار عربی و پارسی در وصف آن ذيل كتاب 98106 ff This MS. formerly belonged to the Ihtishamu'd-Dawla, whose seal it bears on the last page (f. 106"), and came to me from Sir A. Houtum-Schindler's library in January, 1917. It comprises 108 ff. of 21.9 x 14.7 cm and 15 ll., and is written in a good, clear ta'liq between gold and coloured borders with rubrications, but has no colophon or date. For a detailed description of the work, see my article above-mentioned in the J.R.A.S. for 1901.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 108
Dimensions: 21.9 × 14.7 cm.
Layout
15 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a good, clear ta'liq between gold and coloured borders with rubrications.
History
Origin: undated
Provenance and Acquisition
This MS. formerly belonged to the Ihtishamu'd-Dawla, whose seal it bears on the last page (f. 106"), and came to me from Sir A. Houtum-Schindler's library in January, 1917.
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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