138 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal [May, 1905. 
he long religious poem called 
the Mubayyan, one-half of which has been published by Berezine 
are in Babar’s handwriting. It seems desirable that they should 
be edited and published. It is 
tioned by Haidar Mirza and Abul F 
is No. 175, p , of Professor Margoliouth’s Catalogue of the 
Pott MSS., but is wrongly entered there as a History of Far- 
ghana. [S. was written in a and bears the date of 7 
| the Shirazi Bombay Lithographs, p. 75, or in Erskine, p. 
with the words “Should a man live a hundred, nay, a thousand 
years, yet at last he must die,” it goes on to say that Babar’s friends 
came up and arranged that he should leave the place, and that his 
ladies (Khatinan-i-haram) should be taken care of. It looks as if 
narrative in this place. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana also possesses 
a small fragment of the Turki Memoirs. There is no date or 
colophon, but the MS. looks older than 1780, the date assigned 
by Mr. Kearney it h theend the words dastkhat Nur 
Muhammad ablah (? ignorant ?) wa Abul Fazl. Possibly this 
means that the MS. was written or signed by the Nar Muham- 
mad who was Abul Fazl’s sister's son. There are also one or two 
other words which I could not read, but which perhaps give @ 
regnal year, 7 
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It is much to be wished that the history of Babar by Pr 
Asiatic Quarterly Review for July 1900, could be found. It was 
described as a very old copy and as the property of a friend of 
Sayyad Jan of Cawnpore. Perhaps it still exists at Cawnpore- 
