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Brown, Robert (Collector of manuscripts)

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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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لب التواريخ Lubb al-tawārīkh, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 239
Scope and Contents

An abridgement of universal history, especially the history of Persia, from the earliest times to 948 A.H., 1541 C.E. It was compiled in 948 A.H., 1541 C.E., by Amīr Sayyid Yaḥyá b. ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥusaynī al-Qazvīnī (d. 962 A.H., 1555 C.E.), and dedicated to Prince Abū al-Fatḥ Bahrām-Mirzā, a brother of Shāh-Tahmāsp Ṣafavī (d. 984 A.H., 1576 C.E.).

Dates: undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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