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Summary of Contents: تذکره شوشتریه A History of Shúshtar from the earliest times until 1169/1755-6, by Sayyid
'Abdu'lláh ibn Núri'd-Din ibn Ni'mati'lláh (d. 1173/1759-60). See Rieu's Persian
Catalogue, pp. 214-216, and his Persian Supplement, p. 67, where the contents of
the work are described. This MS., bought from Major Salmon on May 21, 1906, comprises 162 ff. of
20'4 x 16 c. and 9 ll. It is written in a clear but coarse naskh, is dated 25 Shawwál,
1313/April 9. 1896, and was copied for Major (then Captain) Salmon by Muhammad
Hasan ibn Muhammad Ridá ibn Habibi'lláh Wastri Skishlari.

Author: Shūshtarī, Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Niʿmat Allāh‏ سيد عبد الله بن نور الدين بن نعمة الله شوشتري

Title: Tadhkirah-ʼi shūshtarīyah

Title: تذكرۀ شوشتريه

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 162

Dimensions: 20.4 × 16 cm.

Layout

9 lines

Hand(s)

Clear but coarse naskh

The manuscript was for copied by Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad Ridá ibn Habib Allah Wazir-i Skushtari in 1896.

History

Origin: 1313 AH; 1896 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

copied for Major Salmon (then Captain) in 1896

Bought from Major Salmon on May 21, 1906.

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.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

Iran--History--640-1500

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