Transcription of the beginning of Ms Oxford, Bodleian Library, Elliot 422

Object identifier ARC_712
Tipologia Item

Titles

Title
Ḥāfiẓ-i-Abru
Type
formal title
Title
Transcription of the beginning of Ms Oxford, Bodleian Library, Elliot 422
Type
supplied title

Description

Folder containing a manuscript copy of the transcription of the beginning of Ms Oxford, Bodleian Library, Elliot 422, that preserves the fourth part of Ḥāfeẓ-e Abru’s« Maǧmaʻ al-tawāriḫ [al-salṭāni(ya)]», entitled «Zobdat al-tawāriḫ-e Bāysonḡori». This part of the work is a source of major importance for the reign of Timur and the first half of the reign of Šādoḵ, es pecially as regards China, and served as a primary source for many later works. The person who copied the text (probably M.A. Dunlop) noted for Kahle some further information about the Ḥāfez-e Abru and his work. In this regard, in a note of his article “China as described by Turkish geographers from Iranian sources”, Kahle wrote: “A few details of this report [i.e. relating to the embassy of the painter Ghiyath al-Din an-Naqqash who was sent by the Timurid Shahrukh to the Emperor of China in 1419] have been published by D. M. Dunlop in his article “Hiifiz-i-Abru’s Version of the Timurid Embassy to China in A.D. 1420”, in: Transations of the Glasgow University Oriental Society (1948). But what we need is an exact edition of the Persian text and a complete translation of it”.

Notes

See also sub-series: Geography, Ottoman geographers This text was edited (and translated) by K.M. Maitra, A Persian Embassy to China, Being an Extract from Zubdatu’t Tawarikh of Hafiz Abru, Lahore, 1934; repr., New York, 1970

Publication notes

Publication notes
Paul Kahle, “China as described by Turkish geographers from Iranian sources”, in: «Opera Minora. Festgabe xum 21. Januar 1956», Leiden 1956, pp. 321-325, exp. p. 324. Paul Kahle, “China as described by Turkish geographers from Iranian sources”, in: «Proceedings of the Iran Society», 2 (1940), pp. 48-59.
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Languages

English

Persian

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
38
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
264
Width
204

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