Materials for the history of Persia subsequent to the Mahommedan invasion
Subtitle: Vol. 2nd
Contributors: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner; Duncan, Jonathan, 1756-1811, former owner
Published: 1805
Place of publication: England?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: History
Other titles: Phillipps ms. 17349.
Notes: Manuscript written on paper in English.

Contents: Leaves 3-62. Memoirs of the wandering tribes in Persia, translated from a tract written in the time of Shah Abbas.

Contents: Leaves 63-72. Astarbadi Mahdi ibn Muhammad Nasir. Contents of Monsheat or book of letters ... of Nader Shah.

Contents: Leaves 73-97. Nader Shah. Translation of two letters...published by Mirza Mehdy Mazandarani Munshi i. e. Astarbadi Mahdi ibn Muhammad Nasir: [a] To Muhammad 'Ali Khan ibn Aslan, Beglerbeg of Fars (giving an account of the conquest of Herat); [b] To his son Riza Quli Mirza i. e. Riza Quli Khan Hidayat (giving an account of the conquest of Hindostan).

Contents: Leaves 98-120. Translation of two celebrated Persian letters calculated to show the popular arguments between the sects of Suni and Shiites: [a] 'Ulama' of Mavara' al-nahr or Transaxonia to the 'Ulama' of the city of Mashhad in Khurasan; [b] An answer to the 'Ulama' of Mavara' al-nahr by Mulla Muhammad Rustamdari of Mashhad.

Contents: Leaves 121-134. Extract from the Hussayniyah by Shakh Abool Frithouah Razee i. e. Jamal al-Din Husayn ibn 'Ali abu al-Futuh Razi.

Contents: Leaves 135-140. Mulla Muhammad Saduq. Introduction to a dictionary of the antient Fars language.

The two letters of Nader Shah were published by Malcolm; see Asiatic researches, v. 10 (London, 1811) p. 526-547.

Materials from this manuscript were used by Malcolm in his History of Persia (London, 1815)

Purchase: 450-531991

English.

The manuscript may have belonged to Jonathan Duncan.

From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, his manuscript no. 17349.

Binding: Bound.