138 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (May, 1905. 
after his victory over Rana Sanga, sent Darvesh Muhammad 
Sarban to the saint with presents, and a quatrain expressive 
of his respect for dervishes. Perhaps it was on this occasion 
that Babar sent to Transoxiana the long religious poem called 
the Mubayyan, one-half of which has been published by Berezine 
at Kazan, and of which Sprenger saw a copy at Lucknow. Babar 
wrote it in A.H. 928 (A.D. 1521), for the instruction of Humayin. 
At Rampur in Rohilkand there is in the Nawab’s Library a small 
book of Turki verses which, according to a note by Shah Jahan, 
are in Babar’s handwriting. It seems desirable that they should 
be edited and published. It is probably the Turki-divan men- 
tioned by Haidar Mirza and Abul Fazl. 
Some MSS. or THE BABARNAMA. 
There is a good manuscript of ‘Abdu-r-rahim’s translation of 
the Memoirs in the Pott collection in the Hton College Library. It 
is No. 175, p. 22, of Professor Margoliouth’s Catalogue of the 
Pott MSS., but is wrongly entered there as a History of Far- 
ghana. The MS. was writtenin Agra and bears the date of 7 
Jamadaral-awwal, 1051, (4th August, 1641). The MS. formerly 
belonged to Mr. Richard Johnson, and was bought in Lucknow for 
ten rupees. In the Bibliotheca Lindesiana, now in the John 
Rylands’ Library, Deansgate, Manchester, thereis a thick octavo 
volume containing ‘Abdu-r-rahim’s translation of the Memoirs. 
It is a well-written copy (Nast‘aliq), but has neither date nor 
colophon. Probably it belongs to the 17th century. At the end 
of the account of the translations of the year 908 there is a curious 
deviation from other manuscripts. Instead of ending abruptly, as 
in the Shirazi Bombay Lithographs, p. 75, or in Erskine, p. 122, 
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 (KAatundn-i-haram) should be taken care of. It looks as if 
Babar or some copyist had attempted to round off the description. 
As is well known, some of the Turki copies have a much longer 
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, and it has at theend the words dastkhat Nir 
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 a 
regnal year. 
It is much to be wished that the history of Babar by Zain 
Khawafy entered in Sprenger’s Catalogue of the Elliot MSS. 
J.A.S.B., Vol. XXIII, p. 241, referred to in a note at p. 123 of the 
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. 
