270 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
any copyist. The folios are 13 by 7 inches and are longer than 
those of the B.M. Or. 168, there being 33 lines against the 21 of 
the B.M. copy. The number of words in each line is about the 
same in both. It had been carefully patched in India by a 
former owner, but this has not prevented the disarrangement. 
Thus (before rearrangement) it began with an account of the 
four yugs of the Hindus though this really belongs to division 
(qism) 4 of the work, and appears at p. 426 of the B.M. copy. 
The earliest page of the work, as it exists in my copy. is marked 
Persia from its first king, Kaiomurg down to the conquest by 
the Arabs. On the other hand, the chapter is, with the excep- 
tion just noticed, very full in my copy, and occupies 125 lios 
(38 to 162). There are many lacunae and some undecipherable 
pages, but still it is the best preserved portion of the MS. 
This is fortunate, for, with the exception of the quotations, with 
comments and variations, from Babur’s Memoirs, which occur 
in the Chapter about Sultan Husain of Herat, this early Persian — 
history is, I think, the most valuable part of the Rauzat. y 
it is not merely a prose rendering of Firdausi’s Shahnama 
much of it is taken from a rarer work, the Garshaspnama, which 
Néldeke regards the Garshas nima—which records the explo” 
of Garshasp, who was of Sistan, and an ancestor of Zal and 
= Oa a PET cence ee eo ee ne ee : 
| There is a copy of the Rauzat T. ; , Bodlei Tt was sold to 
i Z - in the Bodleian. oe 
ia Gore Ouseley by Captain Dow in 1765, and is now among the panto 
Ms S. I have not been able to examine it, but my friend, Mr. be ‘ 
ma tells me that it is @ fine MS. and is a thick folio and well boun 4 
