398 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
whether a biography by Taju'd- -Din cipemmtrtecs Buzjani was 
really written, but another existed for certain, compos 
Zaynu’d-Din Abi Bakr Taibadi, d. 791 AH. And the latest 
of all, of which a fragment was ‘published by me in the paper 
referred to in the footnote, was written by an anonymous author 
about 840 A.H. (this year is mentioned in it as ‘ current’). 
The Asiatic Society of Bengal possesses gre: copy of 
the last mentioned work (marked. E 64). The title is given in 
the preface as Khuldsatu’l-maqamat, but the author’s name 
remains unknown. The MS. is very defective, because in addi- 
tion to many lacunas it is badly mutilated by a book-binder, 
who pasted broad strips of (non-) logret ipa rapidly 
deteriorating) paper quite needlessly all over its pages, thus 
rendering them illegible. A collation shows that the fragment 
which is already published contains the most important part 
of the book. The remaining portions deal with spurious 
‘miracles,’ and the preface seems to be a forgery 
t is not superfluous to mention that an old copy of an 
invasion, dealing with the lives of Ahmad’s descendants. It 
seems most probable that this work was one = the chief 
authorities of the compiler of Khulasatu’l-maqama 
A collation of the text of the last mentioned work with 
me But it is impossible to maintain only for this reason 
that Jami did not know this work of his contemporary. e 
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graphies (Nos. 387-392, 426, 427), and uses this si also 
for the amplification of other stories : 
Biography of Abi Sa‘id. Similar difficulties as in 
the case of Ahmad-i-Jam are to be met with in the question 
of the sources of Jami’s materials fer his biographies of Abu 
Sa‘id b. Abi'l-Khayr of Mayhana and his associates. Two 
eatly works dealing with his life are known at present, and 
re accessible in an excellent edition of Prof. V. Zhukovsky, 
899. The older, and smaller, work is usually called H alat ate 



here is yet another ee me. in the library of the A.S.B. (E 20) 
containing Unsu’t-tabin, b ad iJam himself, or rather by one 0 
his disciples, who recorded his “some at common-place revelations. It 
ing — nthe philological puilte of view. 
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