[IO Islamic 2547] سَيْر البلاد

<ul> <li><strong>Sair-albil&acirc;d.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 715 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 2547 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>715</p> <p>Sair-albil&acirc;d ( سَيْر البلاد ).</p> <p>A literal Persian translation of the second part of Ḳazw&icirc;n&icirc;&rsquo;s great cosmographical work, the آثار البلاد و اخبار العباد or geographical section, by Muḥammad Mur&acirc;d bin &lsquo;Abd-alraḥm&acirc;n, who dedicated it to Naww&acirc;b M&ucirc;saw&icirc;kh&acirc;n (with his original name M&icirc;r &lsquo;Al&icirc; Aṣghar, who died A.H. 1054= A.D. 1644, 1645, see Rieu iii. p.991^b, where extracts from this work are noticed), see fol. 10^b, ll. 1, 3, and 14. It must have been composed between A.H. 1037, the year of Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&rsquo;s accession, who is mentioned as reigning sovereign, and A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1628-1645, see Rieu, loc. cit.)</p> <p>Beginning, on fol. 9^b: حمد عالى اساس و سپاس بيرون از حدّ و قياس مالك الملكى را درخور و سزاست الخ.</p> <p>The translation begins with <em>first</em> muḳaddimah, on fol.10^b, corresponding to the Arabic text, ed. W&uuml;stenfeld , p.٤٠ <em>First</em> IḲl&icirc;m, on fol. 14^b; <em>second</em> on fol. 52^b; <em>third</em>, on fol.98^b; <em>fourth</em>, on fol.188^a; <em>fifth</em>, on fol. 314^a; <em>sixth</em>, on fol.368^a ; <em>seventh</em>, on fol. 387^a. On ff. 1^b-8^b an index of the whole work, divided into two sections, the first of which gives all the geographical names, the second, beginning on fol.6^a, lin. penult., and incomplete at the end, the names of Im&acirc;ms, Shaikhs, etc., mentioned in the book. Another complete copy of this translation is in the Bodleian Library, see Bodleian Cat., No. 400.</p> <p>No date. The original part of the MS. comprises ff. 53-372, all the leaves before and after that have been supplied by the same later hand.</p> <p>No. 2547, ff.394, ll. 21; large Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, by two different hands; size, 11 in. by 6^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>