Biography and History [IO Islamic 2326]

• Biography and History. 
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2326 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 711 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

711.

2326. Size 8 in. by 6 in.; foll. 99. Twenty-one lines in a page.

عجائب المقدور من اخبار تيمور

The famous History of Tîmûr, by Shihâb al-dîn AḤMAD B. ‘ARABSHÂH (d. A.H. 854). This work was edited and translated into Latin by Manger, 1767, and a more correct edition of it was printed at Calcutta, 1818.

Clearly written in Nasta’liḳ, of about the tenth century. Some leaves have been supplied by a different hand. Single leaves are missing after foll. 6 and 45.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]