Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts of the Imperial Library of Vienna (1820) - Page 25

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 who originated from Ganja, or the older one called Aaruzi. This eulogy was composed by him for Sultan Shihab al-Din Abul-Muzaffar b. Sam b. Husayn, the fifth prince of the Ghurid Dynasty, and for the prince Abd al-Harith Ibek, one of his Mamluks, whose deeds are described in a poetic style, more in verses than in prose.

115. Lub al-Tawarikh The Marrow of Histories. A compendium of history, by Emin Jahja f. Abdollah f. Kazvinensis Amin Yahya b. Abdullah al-Qazwini, written during the time of Shah Ismail b. Haider. See the translation in Büsching's Magazine XVII.

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

117. Tarikh-i Tabaristan wa Mazandaran History of the two provinces of Mazandaran and Tabaristan, compiled from two other histories, namely from the histories of Mevlana Evlia Mevlana Awliya and Mevlana Rujani. The author added only the reign of Kayumars and Sayyid Qawam al-Din, and offered his work to the prince Kargia Mirza Ali, son of Kargia Sultan Mohammed, prince of the Dilomites Daylamites. Our author is the one whom Haji Khalifa names after Rujani, the author of the History of Tabaristan, as Zahir al-Din b. Sayyid Nasir al-Din al-Mar'ashi; he continues up to the year 881 of the Hijra.

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 which he enumerates four dynasties of the Persians and then 12 others, namely: Umayyad, Abbasid, Samanid, Saffarid, Daylamite, Sabuktigin, Khwarazmian, Seljuk, Salghurid, Malahid Ismaili assassins, Genghisid, and Ottoman up to Sultan Selim I. The codex is rolled; another copy extends up to Sultan Suleiman II; another is only begun.

Turks.

119. Taj al-Tawarikh Crown of Histories, by Mevlana Saadeddin f. Hassan Sa'd al-Din b. Hasan, famous under the name Chodscha Efendi Hoca Efendi, died 1008. Annals of the Ottoman Empire from its beginning until the time of Suleiman, in folio. A part of it has become known through translations by the interpreters Spiegel, Leunclavius, Bratutti, Podesta, and Kollarius. See Schlözer's Critical Nebenstunden.