Ḥabīb-i siyar jild al-thānī, [1026, i.e. 1617].

This is the second of three volumes which comprise Khvandemīr's well known and important general history, completed in 929/1523, which spans the creation of the world up to the death of Shah Ismāʻīl Safavī I. The work includes particularly detailed information about Herat under Sultan Husayn Bayqara, the last Timurid ruler in Herat, as well as Shah Ismāʻīl and Bābur's life. This work has been published in both Persian and English editions.

Copy dated 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal, 1026 / March 16, 1617. Scribe's name is mentioned in the colophon: Yūsuf [ibn] Yaʻqūb.

ʻUnwān in gold, blue, green, and red; black-ruled gold margins. Text written in nastaʻlīq shekasteh script in black with rubrications. Hand is identical to that in Vol. 1. Last few pages contain notes in a different hand, in nastaʻlīq script.

Simple leather bound codex with some tooling on upper and lower covers as well as envelop flaps; decaying rapidly. Leather is disintegrating and folios are crumbling and falling away from the binding.

Ḥabīb-i siyar was usually copied in three volumes. This collection contains only Volumes 1 and 2, (Isl. Ms. 667 and Isl Ms. 668, respectively.) Contents of these two volumes correspond to those of British Museum Cat. Per Mss. for Volumes 1 and 2 of this work. This is manuscript is Volume 2. (For Volume 1, see Ḥabīb-i siyar, jild al-awwal: Isl. Ms. 667).

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This is the second of three volumes which comprise Khvandemīr's well known and important general history, completed in 929/1523, which spans the creation of the world up to the death of Shah Ismāʻīl Safavī I. The work includes particularly detailed information about Herat under Sultan Husayn Bayqara, the last Timurid ruler in Herat, as well as Shah Ismāʻīl and Bābur's life. This work has been published in both Persian and English editions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Khvandemīr was an important historian of the 16th century; grandson and pupil of the great historian, Mīrkhvānd; He was born most likely in 1475, in Timurid Herat, where he lived and worked under the patronage of Mīr ʻAlī Shīr Navā'ī. After the death of Sultan Husayn Bayqara, he moved about Khorasan until he eventually migrated to India in 1528, where he served both Bābur and then Humāyūn, the first two Mughal emperors. He died in India in 941/1534-5; or some suggest that he may have lived for two more years.