metadata [IO Islamic 1026] ترجمۀ المسالك و الممالك

<ul> <li><strong>Tarjuma-i-almas&acirc;lik wa-almam&acirc;lik&nbsp;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 707 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1026 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>IX. GEOGRAPHY, COSMOGRAPHY, AND</p> <p>TOPOGRAPHY.</p> <p>707</p> <p>Tarjuma-i-almas&acirc;lik wa-almam&acirc;lik ( ترجمۀ المسالك و الممالك ) .</p> <p>The same Persian adaptation of the famous geographical work by Ab&ucirc; Isḥ&acirc;ḳ Ibr&acirc;h&icirc;m bin Muḥammad al-F&acirc;ris&icirc;, better known as al-Iṣṭakhr&icirc;, called مسالك الممالك, and probably completed A.H. 340 (A.D. 951, 952), as a revised and enlarged edition of Ab&ucirc; Zaid Aḥmad bin Sahl al-Balkh&icirc;s (died A.H. 322=A.D. 934) صور الاقاليم or اشكال البلاد, which is described in G. Fl&uuml;gel ii.424 and 425, and begins :الحمد لله مبدئ ( مبتدئ ) النعم و ولى الحمد و صلّى الله على سيّد المرسلين وآله اجمعين امّا بعد چنين گويد خداوند سخن كه مراد ما از تصنيف اين كتاب الخ .</p> <p>It is besides identical with the one noticed in Ḥ. Khalfa, v. p. 509, No. 11869. On the very intricate question of the relationship between Ab&ucirc; Zaid Balkh&icirc;&rsquo;s and Iṣṭakhr&icirc;&rsquo;s respective works and the frequent mixture of both, as well as on the different Persian paraphrases extant, comp. especially De Goeje&rsquo;s splendid article on the &lsquo;Istakhr&icirc;-Balkh&icirc; Frage&rsquo; in the Zeitschrift der D. M. G. vol. xxv , pp. 42-58, and Rieu i. p. 416; other versions are noticed in Ḥ. Khalfa iv. p. 112; W. Pertsch, p. 61; B. Dorn, Das Asiatische Museum, p. 666; Rieu, loc. cit., etc. An abridged Persian translation is contained in Sir W. Ouseley&rsquo;s &lsquo;Oriental Geography of Ebn Haukal,&rsquo; London, 1800; a fuller version in the صور البلدان by Muḥammad bin As&rsquo;ad bin &lsquo;Abd-all&acirc;h, see Bodleian Cat., No. 396. The title given to the work on fol. 1^b, l. 11 in the present copy, is just as in Fl&uuml;gel&rsquo;s: مسالك و ممالك . Unfortunately our MS. is very defective; there is a large lacuna of, at least, fourteen leaves after fol. 1^b, comprising the greater part of the preface and the beginning of the geography itself, and at the end the copy is incomplete also. On ff. 2^a-3^a a part of the ذكر درياى پارس is found ; on fol. 3^b the ذكر ديار مغرب begins. The copy breaks off on fol. 95^b, in the middle of a chapter, styled: مسافات شهرهاى سغد و سمرقند .</p> <p>No. 1026, ff. 95, ll. 17 ; good old Naskh&icirc;; many maps; some leaves injured; size, 10^1/8 in. by 6^3/4 in.</p>