Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

I. 7 (University Library, Cambridge University)

E. G. Browne Collection

Contents

Summary of Contents: تأريخخ مازندران ظهير الدين. The History of Mázandarán by Zahiru'd-Din ibn Sayyid Naşiri'd-Din-i-
Marashi. The work was composed in 881/1476-7, and the text was published by
Dorn in St Petersburg in A.D. 1850. See Rieu's Persian Supplement, pp. 63-64,
No. 93. The text of the author's companion volume on the history of Gílán (see
Ethé's Bodleian Persian Catalogue, No. 309) was printed at the 'Urwatu'l-Wuthqà
Press at Rasht for Mr H. L. Rabino in 1330/1912.
Ff. 132 of 28'4 x 18.5 c. and 25 ll.; written in clear naskh with rubrications and
dated Şafar 14, 1271 (Nov. 6, 1854). Copyist, Muhammad Hasan ibn 'Abdi'lláh
al-Kátib. This MS. formerly belonged to Prince Bahman Mirza Bahá'u'd-Dawla
and subsequently to Sir A. Houtum-Schindler.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 132
Dimensions: 28.4 × 18.5 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

Written in clear naskh with rubrications

History

Origin: 1271 AH; 1854 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS. formerly belonged to Prince Bahman Mirza Bahá'u'd-Dawla and subsequently to Sir A. Houtum-Schindler.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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