Details

Subject(s)

• Afghanistan—History—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

The author's shorter recension of his history of the Afghans, consisting of three bāb, three daftar, and a khātimah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 2b, line 8.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Marginal staining and insect damage. A few paper repairs, particularly to leaves 1, 156-157.
• Origin: 27 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1159 H [11 December 1746], by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān Mihmand (leaf 157a).
• Incipit: حمدى که مورخان وقاىع نگار و مخبران بداىع افکار بلسان گوهر بار

Binding note

Full maroon leather with blind-stamped, gold leather central mandorla, pendants, and fillets.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

Acquired from Widgery, Cambridge, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

• Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 57
• Storey, C.A. Persian literature, I, 394

Other title(s)

مخزن افغانى

Title given by Storey

• Makhzan-i Afghānī

OCLC

851794107

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