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Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Persans

Shelfmark

Supplement persan 1649

Contents

Kitāb nawādir al-tabādur li tuḥfat al-bahādur (Muḥammad ibn Amin al-Millat wa al-Dīn Abū al-Makārim Ayyūb ibn Ibrāhim al-Dunaysirī, fl. 13th century)

Author

Muḥammad ibn Amin al-Millat wa al-Dīn Abū al-Makārim Ayyūb ibn Ibrāhim al-Dunaysirī, fl. 13th century

محمد بن امن الملت والدین ابو المکارم أیوب ابن ابراهم الدنیسری

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Muḥammad ibn Amin al-Millat wa al-Dīn Abū al-Makārim Ayyūb ibn Ibrāhim al-Dunaysirī, fl. 13th century (authorised)

محمد بن امن الملت والدین ابو المکارم أیوب ابن ابراهم الدنیسری (variant)

Title

Kitāb nawādir al-tabādur li tuḥfat al-bahādur

کتاب نوادر التبادر لتحغة البهادر

Notes

An encyclopaedia dedicated to an unnamed person who, at the time of the composition of the book in 669 AH [1270-1271 CE], commanded the fortress of Qara Hissar in present day Afyonkarahisar İli (Turkey). He is referred as the Amir Sipahsalār of the region

The work is divided into 12 sections and sub-divided in discourses detailed in the preface

In the preface of this book the author mentions that he was the disciple of his father Muḥammad bin al-Qāz̤ī, محمد بن القاضی. The date of composition is given in f. 156r is Muḥarram 669 [1270 CE] and an alternative date is provided also in f. 156v as 3rd Rajab 681 [1282 CE]

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

Editions

al-Dunaysirī, Muḥammad ibn Amin. Nawādir at-tabādur li-tuḥfat al-bahādur. Edited by Dānish-pažūh, Muḥammad Taqī. Tehran?: s.n., 1971.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1905-34, 723.

Physical Description

Number of folios

159 ff.

Hand

copied from the autographed copy by Bū Bakr ibn Yūsūf ibn Khālid ibn ‘Alī Shīr Alp Ghāzī al-Qīzshahirī al-Fārsī, end of 13th century, بو بکر بن یوسوف بن خالد بن علی شیر غازی القیزشهری الفارسی

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

Mid 7th century