de Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 683 
Ce Q)epr nl 258 02Lei 01355 eniul) ils (aile) aile Le ©, () fu 
él SL Duens ounys Jel ce 5, ébur,s Ounl Cell) ais Dis (sé) 
Ull SU bol Loë fé bi (out ol le ou» Joel (culs) cb lle (Es) s2s) 
A, IR 3 te PE 00 CT ME Po 
di, god ve hp af bilan ie in Jill à sl us Joel 
odshossashtsrmeds 55 molle nie (Le 6 isnsisl L52s5 ab x  çul 4 ep féle LP dé 
Lüye] wo FL ous Dyne ve 4 M auf Ca col wuxl gl Sole s el 
Sue PE [ol sl Dyee Ce spears ce AU ge SL uns og 553) 5e ss ab 
Sol pie ee yl hs il Sy Lelh 425» ours de rosuli CU 
pos subs us 0 3 al5 Qssl lue SG couv del 7 hi coul + vhsxs Jel 
B The phrase is irregular, the author probably wishes to say that in the year 290 the vicegerency of 
Derbend fell into the hands of Hashim. Instead of Hashim in our version we read _jh Ls: in the MS. of St. Pe- 
tersburg we do not find here any thing of these two names, and even there is no mention of the year 290. 
Iu the Persiau MS. of the Derbend-nâmeh belonging to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg 
the name is also Hashim; see there the section under the title of JBL fl pie © ples Calle ls» 
tps Lau | 
"€ [mn the same Persien MS. of the  Derbend=nâmeh we find pi hic JeS , see the same section. 
d According to the same Persian MS. Muhammed-ben- Ahmèd reigned a long period , and (after him it seems) 
the son of Meimoun who is called there Jeoxe was invested with the authority of governor in 390. (ibid.) 
€ In Dr. Dorn’s version 02 se © 392 : we added the word Jo) in parenthesis in the quo- 
tation from that version merely to follow the chronological order there indicated; but the addition should be H! 
à é À L a 
— so as we find it here and in the Persian MS. referred to above, 
f In Dr. Dorn’s version we had Qsbie which I considered as a corruption of hi. But the word 
Qhi here puts one in mind hieue the name of a town (see this word in the Index to our work). [a 
the Persian translation we have no word here corresponding to chi or La _ 
