Brown, Robert (Collector of manuscripts)
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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اخلاق محسنی Akhlāq-i muḥsinī, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
A complete copy of the well-known work on ethics by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).
In this copy, the folios have been misplaced, and in this instance the work begins in the usual manner on fol. 215.
The scribe gives the date of conclusion of the present copy as the 14th of Muḥarram in the 13th year of the reign of an unnamed monarch.
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