Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Gotha, Germany), Ms. orient. A 1842

Manuscript	Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Gotha, Germany), Ms. orient. A 1842
Shelfmark	Ms. orient. A 1842
Repository	Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Location	Gotha, Germany
Data Source	Catalogue (Pertsch)
Manuscript length	133 folia
Physical description	The folia of the manuscript were bound in the wrong sequence. Therefore, a marginal note explaining the sequence of reading was inserted. (See marginal notes.)
Date range	1604 - 1604
Copy date status	Marked in text
Copy date details	The day of Wednesday at the end of Jumāda al-awwal of the year thirteen and thousand of the Prophet's Hijra.
Notes & references	Ulrich Jasper Seetzen bought the manuscript between 1803 and 1805 in Aleppo.

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Colophon	وكان الفراغ من تكملة هذا التاريخ المبارك نهار الاربعا من اواخر جمادي الاول سنة ثلث عشر والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم السلام وكان تمام هذه النسخة المباركه على يد الفقير الحقير المعترف بالذنب والتقصير الراجي عفو ربه الصمد محمود بن احمد الزرندي العلواني الاشعري
Summary	This blessed history was completed on the day of Wednesday at the end of Jumāda al-awwal of the year thirteen and thousand of the Prophet's hijra - the best prayer and the most complete peace upon the one who did it. This blessed copy was completed by the hand of the poor and the humble one, who is known for his sins and shortcomings, but who wants to ask his eternal Lord for forgiveness, Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad al-Zarandī al-ʿAlwānī the Ashʿarite.
Location in manuscript	Folio 120r
Language(s)	Arabic

Type of marginalia	Ownership
Marginalia	ساقته يد التقدير الى سلك مكتبت الفقير راجي عفو ربه القدير [انطوان] ابن [شكري]
Summary	The hand of destiny dropped it into the library of the poor who wants the forgiveness of his mighty Lord [Anṭūn], the son of [Shukrī].
Location in manuscript	Folio 133v
Language(s)	Arabic

Type of marginalia	Ownership
Marginalia	دخل في سلك ملك اضعف عباد الله الغفّار مصطفى الدفتردار بن محمد بك العلمدار رحم الله والده وغفر له وذلك في ربيع الاول سنه 1013
Summary	It entered the possession of the weakest of the servants of the forgiving God, Muṣṭafā al-Daftardār b. Muḥammad Beg al-ʿAlamdār, may God have mercy on his father and forgive him. This in Rabīʿ al-awwal of the year 1013.
Location in manuscript	Folio 1r
Language(s)	Arabic

Type of marginalia	Ownership
Marginalia	دخل في سلك ملك اضعف عباد الله [...] اسعد ابن الحاج عمر رحم الله والده وغفر له وذلك في محرم ختام سنة الف وستين سنه 1060
Summary	It entered the possession of the weakest of God's servants, Asʿad b. al-Ḥājj ʿUmar, may God have mercy with his father and forgive him. This in Muḥarram, at the end of the year one thousand and sixty. Year 1060.
Location in manuscript	Folio 1r
Language(s)	Arabic

Type of marginalia	Reading
Marginalia	نظر فيه العبد الراجي عفو ربه الهادي علي ابن الحاج ياسين العمادي في سنة هزار وصد 1100
Summary	The servant who hopes for the forgiveness of his Lord who guides, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥājj Yāsīn al-ʿImādī, looked into it in the year one thousand and one hundred 1100.
Location in manuscript	Folio 1r
Language(s)	Arabic
Notes & references	The year is written in Persian.

Type of marginalia	Reading
Marginalia	نظر فيه العبد الراجي عفو ربه القادر قاسم ابن الحاج عبد القادر في سنة 1100
Summary	The servant who hopes for the forgiveness of his powerful Lord, Qāsim b. al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Qādir, looked into it in the year 1100.
Location in manuscript	Folio 1r
Language(s)	Arabic

Type of marginalia	Binding/repair
Marginalia	فليعلم القاري ان الذي عرم وجلد هذا الكتاب قد خربط صفه فالتزمنا ان نجعل له عدد رقم على الهامش فعلى القاري ان يتبع هنا العدد المرقوم اعلاه كما ترا مسطر عدد تالت فعليك ان تلحق العدد الرابع ترى صحته ثم تتبع العدد مرقوم على الهامش الى العدد التنين وعشرين يصح ذلك
Summary	May the reader know that the one who bound and put a leather cover on this book mixed up the sequence, so we were obliged to give numbers in the margin. The reader must follow here the written number on top, as you see indicated the number three, you must find number four and you see that this one is correct. Then you follow the number written on the margin until you reach number twenty-two, and it is correct.
Location in manuscript	Unspecified
Language(s)	Arabic

Translated title

The wonders of destiny concerning the calamities wrought by Tamerlane

Title

تاريخ عربشاه در بيان احوال تيمور شاه

Copy date

1700 - 1799

Copy date status

Marked in text

Copy date details

نهار الاربعا من اواخر جمادي الاول سنة ثلث عشر والف من الهجرة

Composition date status

Inferred

Language(s)

Arabic

Basmallah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين

Praise of God (Taḥmid)

الحمد لله الذي على منوال ارادته وتدبيره تتسبح مقاطع الامور ومن ينبوع ...

Genre

History

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Reference	Wilhelm Pertsch, Die Arabischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha, Die Orientalischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha: Dritter Theil, Bd. 3 (Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1890).
Cited range	400