Biography and History [IO Islamic 2855]

Biography and History. 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2855 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 721 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

721.

2855. Size 12 in. by 81/2 in.; foll. 294. Twenty, twenty-four and eighteen lines in a page.

A historical collection, comprising: --

I.Foll. 1-138. GREOORIUS ABU’L-FARAJ’S (d. A.H. 685) History of Dynasties, مختصر الدول . Edited by Pococke, Oxon., 1663.

Plainly written. At the end is a short notice of the author.

Inscribed: تاريخ الملوك .

II. Foll. 139-144. Lives of the Tîmûrides and various other princes. Mostly written in Nasta’liḳ.

Imperfect at the end.

III. Foll. 145-222. Part of the Apocrypha, viz.

Wisdom of Solomons, Jesus son of Sirach, Baruch, Epistle of Jeremy, Susanna, Song of the Three Holy Children, Bel and the Dragon.

Plainly written, with vowel-points.

On the last page is a list of the Circassian Sultans.

IV.Foll. 223-268. كتاب المقابيين وهو الثانى .

The fifth book of Maccabees.

Plainly written in Nasta’liḳ.

V.Foll. 269-294. Lives of various Sultans of Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Gujarât, etc. Written like no. I. Of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Injured by White-ants.

This collection belonged once to Hidâyat ‘Alî.

[Bibl. Leydeniana.]