J. 16 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: الذكرة الاولياء (تركي) Lives of Prophets and Saints in Turki, without title or author's name, beginning: اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم، ۱۸۴۹ ده خبرده بویله گلمشدور كم الله تعالى جهنمده ایکی خلق براندی بری اركك آرصلان صورتنده و بری دشی آرصلان صورتنده الخ The anecdotes range over the whole period between Adam and the Imám Husayn ibn 'Alí, and deal with nearly all the Patriarchs and Prophets. The colophon (f. 124) is dated April 11, 1849. Then follows (ff. 124-127) a Turki poem on the death of the Prophet's son Ibráhím, beginning: بر سوزوم وار هم صونکره بیان ایتالوم اول الله یادنی یاد ایتالوم This in turn is followed (ff. 128-137") by a short account of the Torment of the Tomb (e), in the colophon of which the scribe gives the date as April 18, 1849, and his name as Muḥammad Khalaf ibn Mullá Sulaymán al-Marjání (?) al-Bulghárí. This is followed by two other short religious poems of 27 and 6 verses respectively, and four lines of Arabic, written in red. The MS., which, according to a signed note by Dr E. H. Minns, was "bought of Muḥammad al-Ab al-Ab 'Abd-ul-Karím" on October 10/22, 1898, at Kazan, comprises 138 ff. of 20'5 x 16'5 c. and 17 ll., and is written in a clear but outlandish ta'liq with rubrications and marginal indications of contents.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 138
Dimensions: 20.5 × 16.5 cm.
Layout
17 lines
Hand(s)
Written in a clear but outlandish ta'liq with rubrications and marginal indications of contents.
History
Origin: 1265 AH; 1849 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
bought of Muḥammad al-Ab al-Ab 'Abd al-Karím on October 10/22, 1898 in Kazan.
Bought by Dr Ellis H. Minns.
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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