Biography and History [IO Islamic 3066]

<ul> <li><strong>Biography and History.&nbsp;</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3066&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 701 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>701.</p> <p>3066. Size 9 in. by 5 in.; foll. 210. Nineteen lines in a page.</p> <p>تاريخ يمينى</p> <p>The History of the first two Ghaznavides, Subuktig&icirc;n and Maḥm&ucirc;d, by Abu Naṣr Muḥammad b. &lsquo;Abd al-jabb&acirc;r &lsquo;UTB&Icirc; (d. about A.H. 427).</p> <p>This work was published by Maulaw&icirc; Maml&ucirc;k al-&lsquo;Al&icirc; and Dr. Sprenger, At Dehli, 1847. Cf. Sir Ḥ. Elliot, Hist. of India, ed. Dowson, ii. 14 sqq. ; Cat. Mus. Brit 152, 551, etc.</p> <p>A valuable copy, beautifully written, with vowel-points. Both the beginning and end have been supplied by a more modern hand. Injured by insects.</p> <p>Fol. 23 should be placed after 18, fol. 134 after 138, and fol. 204 after 198.</p> <p>Seals of H. Vansittart and C. Boddam ; signature of the latter, Calcutta, 1787.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>