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.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

گلستان Gulistān, undated copy (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)

Item

Identifier: Or Ms 344

Scope and Contents

This is a complete copy of the famous Gulistān by Persian poet Shaykh Sa‘dī Shīrāzī (d. 691 A.H., 1292 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text compiled 13th Cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مخزن الاخلاق Makhzan al-akhlāq, undated

Item

Identifier: Or Ms 375

Scope and Contents A collection of miscellaneous writings in prose and verse by different authors. This manuscript in its details is exactly the same as that described in Charles Rieu's Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, ii, London, 1895, p.796.For a complete list of its contents see the entry for this manuscript in: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library...

Dates: undated