RAS Persian 176 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

The work is divided into 22 sections. (fasl) After the colophon is an additional section (ff44-47) on the regions between Kabul and Tashkent, based on information from Nadir Beg, resident of the latter city. Similar in layout to the main text, it is by a different scribe. F48b has the beginning of an index of contents. Front flyleaf, recto: Presented by Sir John Malcolm May 19. 1827. Kitab dar ahwal-i manzil-ha. (on front flyleaf). Account of routes and places in Afghanistan and Transoxiana, collected from merchants and travellers from those regions for Colonel Francis Wilford. Not identical with the Sair al-Bilad of the same author, also described by Storey, who mentions two MSS in the India Office, but not described by Storey and one in his own possession. For scribe's name (Govind Ram), see f. 42a. The manuscript was written for a European, presumably British, Mumtaz al-daulah Amir al-Mulk Mistir Thomas YRUKsh (Brooks? but the first letter is pointed) Sahib Bahadur. (f42b) Headings, etc. in red

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