al-ru l-bqiyah ani l-qurni l-xliyah

by Ab Rayn Muammad b. Amad al-Brn (or al-Bayrn)

composed in 1311 Seleucid/AH 390/AD 1000, at the age of 29 lunar years

Editions (complete or partial):

Chronologie orientalischer Vlker, herausg. von Eduard Sachau, Leipzig 1878 [based on L, R, and P]
Documenta islamica inedita, Berlin (East) 1952, containing:
pp. 45-68: Eine Ergnzung zu Sachaus Ausgabe von al-Brns Chronologie orientalischer Vlker, von Karl
Garbers
pp. 69-98: Sechs Ergnzungen zu Sachaus Ausgabe von al-Brns Chronologie orientalischer Vlker, von
Johann Fck
[both articles are based on B]
. . : "" - , in:
, 4 (67), 1959, pp. 147-171. [Additions and collations from B and ]
al-ru l-bqiyah ani l-qurni l-xliyah, taqq u talq i Parwz i Azk, Tehran 2001 [based on the above-cited editions,
superficially collated with B, E and S, with a Persian translation of the notes in Sachaus English translation and additional
notes by the editor.]
Manuscripts:
B = Istanbul, Beyazt (olim Umumiye) 4667, with a readers note dated Raman 603 (1207). (For this, and the other 3 Mss.
in Istanbul, cf Hellmut Ritter, Istanbuler Mitteilungen I, 1933, pp. 74-5.)
E = Edinburgh, University Library 161, dated 707/1307-8
S = Istanbul, Topkap Saray 3043, with an owners note dated 813/1410-1 (evidently copied from B)
N = Istanbul, Nuri Osmaniye 2893, attributed to 8th century h. (stops at p. 131 of Sachaus edition)
A = Istanbul, Aya Sofya 2947, dated 839/1435-6, copied from an exemplar dated 544/1149
Ba = Bankipore/Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Or. Pub. Lib., Arabic Cat. XV, no. 963 (incomplete), attributed to 15th
century AD.
= Leningrad/Sanktpeterburg D 58 (Salemann, Bull. de lAcad. des Sciences, 1912, p. 861)
T1 = Tehran, Malik 3891, attributed to 11th century h.
T2 = Tehran, Majlis 6406, dated 1295/1878
Sachaus edition is based on the following 3 Mss., all of which were copied (directly or indirectly) from E:
L = London, British Library Add. 7491, dated 1079/1668-9
R = London, British Library Suppl. 457, dated 1254/1838
P = Paris, Bibliothque nationale, 1489, evidently 11th century h.
Sachau also had access to:
L2 = London, British Library Add. 23274, dated 1255/1839 [copied from L]