Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 513 
Moreover, as we have already noticed in the preceding remark, we do not find in Klap- 
roth’s translation what is stated in our MS. ‘and in that of St. Petersburg respecting the divi- 
sion of the spoil &c. and no word of the appointment of Æ4bdul-aziz as governor of Gandje 
and Shirvân (read the followmg remark). The want of these circumstances in the said transla- 
tion, we can not atiribute to any other reason than to an omission made in the MS. of Berlin: 
1) because our MS. agrees in this point with both the MSS. of the Imperial Library of 
St. Petersburg ©, and probably the same statements may be found in the MS. of Paris. 2) because 
the irrégularity of ideas in this part of Klaproth’s translation contributes very much to realize 
the suspicion of an omission in the MS. of Berlin, for it is there said: « Du reste les Khazari 
faisaient tous les ans des irruptions dans l’[rak et l’'Adzerbaïdsan, qu’ils livraient au meurtre et 
au pillage, parceque le Shirvan el le Gandjah n'étaient pas alors assez fortifiés pour leur ré- 
Sister»; and here he continues « Les Khazari envoyèrent une seconde armée contre Mouslem, 
mais elle, fut repoussée, ac. We do not doubt but that the reader, even without comparing this 
place with our translation, will suspect some omission in it (read the following remark). — 
Remark 10. page 507. 
The omission suspected in the MS. of Berlin exlends to this place. — I shall take the li- 
berty of bringing before the curious the detail which we find in this place of the version of 
Dr. Dorn’s with the different readmgs referred to by that orientalist, which [ shall mark in 
_parentheses with a letter », adding my own corrections of the faulis and errors of the MS. of 
St. Petersburg: us y) ss 25be CA read ee) GA JE LS axels (<, Rip als 
> dl au Ee # plane (36) és sys of (AR &) ) éb ob on» 
dr spuanes (. üY PA EN) Opus Jp dl (uëhl) Ces ssl ob; Elu CA Ji) 
si LS pl oysl (Gl) SL 0954 57 (55 abue dusl D xl js Ciilee 425 Lo ps 
opbll obss) ds phrlous 42 read ls 932) DES sk (v. Eli y 95 read él.,L,s) 
rés els ss of als pyl of sul IS ep als Jp p 49 sul) Calos + 51) > Je 
5 oi (20) 2 die pepe el sue el selloie LI Lu Gines 
down by the inhabitants in order to avoid such misadventure. But they were again constructed, lastly (as it 
is said) by Fat'h- Ali- Khan and stood till some years ago. The same misfortune, however, having taken place 
at the sudden appearance of the treacherous Kuzi- Mülla before the very walls of Derbend — the conse- 
quence was, that after the defeat and death of the rebel, these empty and disused towers were broken down 
by order of the government. 
© The reader is already acquainted with a little description of the version of Derbend-nâmeh copied out 
M ofthe two MSS. belonging to the Imperial Library “of St. Petersburg by Dr, Dorn. The different readings 
that are marked down by that learned Academician on the margin of this place of his copy, manifestly, indi- 
cate the existence of these statements in both MSS. of the Library of St. Petersburg. 
