Islam -- History

A general history from the earliest times to 730 A.H. (1329 C.E.), the year, as it is stated in the preface, when it was compiled by Ḥamd-allāh b. 'Abī Bakr b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr Mustawfī Qazvīnī (d. 750 A.H., 1349 C.E.).

A general history from the earliest times to 730 A.H. (1329 C.E.), the year, as it is stated in the preface, when it was compiled by Ḥamd-allāh b. 'Abī Bakr b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr Mustaufī Qazwīnī (d. 750 A.H., 1349 C.E.), and the present name, meaning "the select history" was given to it.

The first two pages and the frontispiece are richly illuminated; gold-lined throughout.

This is a Persian version of the institutes, political and military, forming the last part of the pseudo-autobiography of Tīmūr (Tamerlane), 736 -807 A.H., 1336-1405 C.E.). The full work is known by the title Malfūẓāt-i Amīr Tīmūr, it was translated into Persian, from Chagatay by Mīr Ṭālib-i Ḥusaynī around 1047 A.H. (1637 C.E.).

The beginning of the present copy is defective. In the colophon it is called "Wāqi'āt-i Amīr Tīmūr".

This is a Persian version of the institutes, political and military, forming the last part of the pseudo-autobiography of Tīmūr (Tamerlane), 736 -807 A.H., 1336-1405 C.E.). The full work is known by the title Malfūẓāt-i Amīr Tīmūr, it was translated into Persian, from Chagatay by Mīr Ṭālib-i Ḥusaynī around 1047 A.H. (1637 C.E.).

This is a Persian version of the institutes, political and military, forming the last part of the pseudo-autobiography of Tīmūr (Tamerlane), 736 -807 A.H., 1336-1405 C.E.). The full work is known by the title Malfūẓāt-i Amīr Tīmūr, it was translated into Persian, from Chagatay by Mīr Ṭālib-i Ḥusaynī around 1047 A.H. (1637 C.E.).

A Persian version of the autobiographical institutes, political and military, of Tīmūr. It is to be noted that these memoirs are usually named Malfūẓāt-i Tīmūrī and were first translated and presented to the Mughal Emperor Shāh-Jahān about 1047 A.H. (1637 C.E.) by Abū Ṭalib al-Ḥusaynī Khurāsānī, from a copy in Turkī in the library of the Pasha, of Yemen.

This MS comprises the first two juz', or parts, of the third volume of the well-known general history, which was originally written in 927-930 A.H. (1521-1524 C.E.), by the grandson of Mīrkhānd who had completed Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ (see Or Ms 71), Ghiyās al-Dīn, known as Khānd-Amīr.