Lot Essay
The author, better known as Mirkhwand, or Mir Khavand came from a family of Sayyids in Bukhara. He spent most of his life in Herat where he found a generous patron in Mir Ali Shah, to whom the present work is dedicated. He died in AH 903/1497 AD with the last half of the seventh part of this work unfinished.
Browne comments that it is "perhaps the best-known work of this sort in Persia". The first volume contains the history of patriarchs, prophets and pre-Islamic kings of Persia; the second volume deals with the history from Muhammad to approximately 1468 AD.
A note dated AH 1296/1878-9 indicates that this copy was entered in th library of Prince I'tizad al-Saltaneh in the same year; impressions were made of the Prince's oval nasta'liq signet seal as well as the that of the librarian, Muhammad Rida and others.
Browne, E.G.: A Literary History of Persia, Cambridge, 1977, vol.III, pp.431-433
Browne comments that it is "perhaps the best-known work of this sort in Persia". The first volume contains the history of patriarchs, prophets and pre-Islamic kings of Persia; the second volume deals with the history from Muhammad to approximately 1468 AD.
A note dated AH 1296/1878-9 indicates that this copy was entered in th library of Prince I'tizad al-Saltaneh in the same year; impressions were made of the Prince's oval nasta'liq signet seal as well as the that of the librarian, Muhammad Rida and others.
Browne, E.G.: A Literary History of Persia, Cambridge, 1977, vol.III, pp.431-433