Author
Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, approximately 1475-1535?
Publication Date
[1616]
Subject
Manuscripts, Persian, Manuscripts, Persian /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Persian / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islamic Empire, Islamic Empire /
History, Islamic Empire / History /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Physical Dimensions
1 v. ([498] p.) ; 31cm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
005236806
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: This is the first of three volumes which comprise Khvandemīr's well known and important general history, completed in 929/1523, which spans the creation of the world up to the death of Shah Ismāʻīl Safavī I. The work includes particularly detailed information about Herat under Sultan Husayn Bayqara, the last Timurid ruler in Herat, as well as Shah Ismāʻīl and Bābur's life. This work has been published in both Persian and English editions. | Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf, "IL 97B" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Copy dated 26, Shaʻbān, 1025 / September 8, 1616. Scribe's name is not mentioned, but hand is identical to the second volume of this work, also in this collection, (Isl. Ms. 668) in which the scribe's name is mentioned in the colophon: Yūsuf [ibn] Yaʻqūb.
ʻUnwān in gold, blue, and red; black-ruled gold margins. Text written in nastaʻlīq shekasteh script in black with rubrications. Hand is identical ato that in Vol. 2.
Simple leather bound codex; decaying rapidly. Leather is disintegrating and folios are crumbling and falling away from the binding.
Ḥabīb-i siyar was usually copied in three volumes. This collection contains only Volumes 1 and 2, (Isl. Ms. 667 and Isl Ms. 668, respectively.) Contents of these two volumes correspond to those of British Museum Cat. Per Mss. for Volumes 1 and 2 of this work. This is manuscript is Volume 1. (For Volume 2, see Ḥabīb-i siyar, jild al-thānī: Isl. Ms. 668).
