Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 35513 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Iksīr al-tawārīkh by Iʻtiz̤ād al-Salṭanah, ʻAlī Qulī Mirzā, -1880 or 1881

An account of the campaign against Herat in the year 1837 of Muhammad Shah Qajar, written as an eye-witness. The present manuscript is contemporary with the author, since the fly-leaf carries the following note "Journal de la campagne de Herat sous Mohamed Chah, tenu par S.A.R. le Prince Ali Ghouli Mirza, temoin oculaire (maintenant Etezad Essaltanet (1870)". A note in Persian states that this manuscript contains only a part of the whole work.

Incipit: اين كتاب مستطاب الثير التواريخ تفصيل هرات است...گفتار در وقایع سال یکهزار ودویست و پنجاه سه سال سیم جلوس خسرو میمنت

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 53 f.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nasta-liq.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Gregorian.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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