A descriptive catalogue of the historical manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian languages, preserved in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland / by William H. Morley.

  • Morley, William H. (William Hook), 1815-1860.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the historical manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian languages, preserved in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland / by William H. Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TIio present MS. contains tlio sixth and seventh books. Book VI.—History of the reign of Sultan Murad IT., the sixth Ottoman emperor, from his accession in a.h. 825 (a.d. 1421) to his death in A.H. 855 (a.d. 1451). Book VII.—History of the reign of Muhammad II., suruamed The Victorious, son of Murad II., from his accession in a.h. 855 (a.d. 1451), to his death in a.h. S85 (a.d. 1480). Foil. 260. Twenty-one lines in a page. Well written in a small Nasta’lik character. Size lOf in. by Gj in. (Sir J. Malcolm.) CLVIII. A concise account of the conquest of Constantinople by Muhammad II., and of the early history and foundation of that city, its public buildings, &c., translated from the Turkish, by Muhammad Mahdl ash-Shirwarn al-Ansari, in a.h. 1210 (a.d. 1795). The translator does not mention the title of the original work from which he made the present version, but he describes it merely as a short history, which he met with at Surat, in a.h. 1209 (a.d. 1794); Foil. 31. Fourteen lines in a page. Plainly written in Nasta'lik, in a.h. 1210 (a.d. 1795). Size 9f in. by5f in. (Major D. Price). VI.—KURDS. CLIX. lj j Sharaf Hamah.1—A history of the various dynasties and rulers of Kurdish extraction, by Sharaf ad-Din Ben Shams ad-DIn ; com- prising an Introduction, four Books, and an Appendix. Sharaf ad-Din was born at Karharud,2 a dependency of Kum, in 1 Hdj. Khalf. tome ii. p. 134. 2 M. Wolkow reads the word Keremroud (Jouru. Asiat., tome viii. p. 291), but in both the Turkish translations of the Sharaf Namah described below (p. 145, note 3) it appears as in the text Sadik Isfahan! gives the same orthography, adding the vowel points and states that it is (Sid. “a city of ’Irak ’Ajam, called after the Arabian manner Karahh Isf. p. 41). In a MS. of Ilamd Allah Kazwini’s Nuzhat al-Kuliib, in my possession, the reading is J,