Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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

Persian Manuscripts

Contents

1 copy of Risalalh i Mister Wilford. [So in introduction] by Mughal Beg.

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

Incipit: Al-hamdu lillah Rabb al-'Alamain wal-salawat wal-salam 'ala khair khalqihi (text has khalifa).
Language(s): Persian 176.

References

Storey, ii, pp. 147-8.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: Folios 46
Dimensions (leaf): 9.25

Layout

17 lines on a page

Hand(s)

Nasta'liq. Govind Ram

Binding

Brown leather European binding with tooled border.

History

Origin: 2 July AD 1806.

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Sir John Malcolm.

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