Biography and History [IO Islamic 3066]

Biography and History. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3066 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 701 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 701. 3066. Size 9 in. by 5 in.; foll. 210. Nineteen lines in a page. تاريخ يمينى The History of the first two Ghaznavides, Subuktigîn and Maḥmûd, by Abu Naṣr Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-jabbâr ‘UTBÎ (d. about A.H. 427). This work was published by Maulawî Mamlûk al-‘Alî and Dr. Sprenger, At Dehli, 1847. Cf. Sir Ḥ. Elliot, Hist. of India, ed. Dowson, ii. 14 sqq. ; Cat. Mus. Brit 152, 551, etc. A valuable copy, beautifully written, with vowel-points. Both the beginning and end have been supplied by a more modern hand. Injured by insects. Fol. 23 should be placed after 18, fol. 134 after 138, and fol. 204 after 198. Seals of H. Vansittart and C. Boddam ; signature of the latter, Calcutta, 1787.