Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts of the Imperial Library of Vienna

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that he would send this codex back to us.

114. Taj al-Ma'athir fi al-Tarikh Crown of Historical Monuments, by Sadreddin Mohammed f. Hassan Nizami. This is the third author of this name, not to be confused in any way with the Nizami originating from Kendsch, or the older one called Aaruzi. This encomium was composed by him for Sultan Schehabeddin Abulmozafer f. Sami f. Hossein, the fifth prince of the Gurid Dynasty, and the prince Abdolharess Ibek, one of his Mamluks, whose deeds are described in a poetic style, more in verse than in prose.

115. Lubb al-Tawarikh Medulla of Histories. A compendium of history by the author Emin Jahja f. Abdollah f. Kazvinensis, written in the time of Schah Ismail f. Haider. See translation in Büsching's Magazin, XVII.

116. Qisas al-Anbiya' History of the Prophets, by Mohammed f. Hassan.

117. Tarikh-i Tabaristan wa Mazanderan History of the two provinces Mazenderan and Tabaristan, gathered from two other histories, namely from the histories of Mevlana Evlia and Mevlana Rujani. The author added only the reign of Kajumers and Seid Kavameddin, and offered his work to the prince Kargia Mirza Ali, son of Kargia Sultan Mohammed, prince of the Dilomites. Our author is the one whom Hadschi Chalfa, after Rujani, names the author of the History of Tabaristan, Zahireddin f. Seid Nasireddin Almeraschi; it continues up to the year 881 of the Hegira.

118. Subhat al-Akhyar wa Tuhfat al-Akhbar Rosary of the Best and Gift of News, by Dervisch Mohammed. It is a universal genealogical table beginning from Adam and the prophets, after whom it enumerates four dynasties of Persians and then 12 others, namely: Umayyad, Abbasid, Samanid, Saffarid, Dailamite, Sabuktigin, Khwarezmian, Seljuk, Salghurid, Ismaili, Genghisid, and Ottoman up to Sultan Selim I. The codex is rolled up in itself; another exemplar is carried up to Sultan Suleiman II; another is only begun.

119. Taj al-Tawarikh Crown of Histories, by Mevlana Saadeddin f. Hassan, celebrated under the name Chodscha Efendi, died 1008. Annals of the Ottoman Empire from its beginning up to the time of Suleiman, folio. A part of it became known through the translations of the interpreters Spiegel, Leunclavius, Bratutti, Podesta, and Kollar in Schlözer’s Kritische Nebenstunden.

120. The same work, in 4to format. Volume I, with gilt edges, bound in yellow Turkish leather.