Brown, Robert (Collector of manuscripts)
Person
Biography
Robert Brown of Langside and Glasgow was the collector of 11 manuscripts amongst the University of Edinburgh's Manuscripts of the Middle East and South Asia collection (the items bearing his armorial book plates). The donation was made by his brother Thomas Brown. Inscriptions state that the manuscripts were named (identified) by Alexander Hamilton "E. I. College" (1762-1824, Prof. of Sanskrit at Haileybury college from 1808) and the Scottish orientalist William Erskine (1773–1852). Four of the items in Brown's collection had previously been owned by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751-1830) an English orientalist and philologist, and East India Company translator.
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مجالس المؤمنين Majālis al-muʼminīn, 1157 A.H., 1744 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 244
Scope and Contents
The biographies of the most notable Muslims who professed the Shī‘ī doctrine from the earliest time of Islam to 905 A.H., 1499 C.E., when the Shī‘ī faith was recognised as the state religion in Persia by the Safavid dynasty. This work was compiled between 993 A.H. and 1010 A.H. (1585-1602 C.E.), by Qāz̤ī Sayyid Nūr-Allāh b. Sharīf al-Mar‘ashī al-Ḥusaynī al-Shustarī, who was a nobleman at the court of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great (d. 1014 A.H., 1605 C.E.) and the author of several Shī‘ī...
Dates:
1157 A.H.; 1744 C.E.
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