Epitome of the ancient history of Persia ... / Extr. and tr. from the 'Jehan Ara', a Persian manuscript, by W. Ouseley.

  • Aḣmad ibn Muḣammad Ibn ʻAbd al-Ghaffar, Al-Kazwini al-Ghifári.
Date:
1799
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Epitome of the ancient history of Persia ... / Extr. and tr. from the 'Jehan Ara', a Persian manuscript, by W. Ouseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    curiofity may be excited by this decla- ration, I make it with the confidence of one who conceives, that eight or nine years fpent in clofe application to the ftudy of Eaftern Languages and Literature, have enabled him to appre- ciate juftly, after repeated perufals, the value of his own manufcripts ; and I entertain not any apprehenfions that the future publication of thofe extracts will difappoint the Reader’s exped- ation. As the original text of the Jehan Ara (which is here given with little more than the Englilli tranflation) was found inadequate to the mafs of notes and illuftrations, I extended my plan, and chofe, as a fuitable ground-work^