History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6Gibbon, Edward
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
Gibbon, Edward
Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
7 (return) [ In the year 1294, by the command of Cazan, khan of
Persia, the fourth in descent from Zingis. From these traditions,
his vizier Fadlallah composed a Mogul history in the Persian
language, which has been used by Petit de la Croix, (Hist. de
Genghizcan, p. 537—539.) The Histoire Généalogique des Tatars (à
Leyde, 1726, in 12mo., 2 tomes) was translated by the Swedish
prisoners in Siberia from the Mogul MS. of Abulgasi Bahadur Khan,
a descendant of Zingis, who reigned over the Usbeks of Charasm,
or Carizme, (A.D. 1644—1663.) He is of most value and credit for
the names, pedigrees, and manners of his nation. Of his nine
parts, the ist descends from Adam to Mogul Khan; the iid, from
Mogul to Zingis; the iiid is the life of Zingis; the ivth, vth,
vith, and viith, the general history of his four sons and their
posterity; the viiith and ixth, the particular history of the
descendants of Sheibani Khan, who reigned in Maurenahar and
Charasm.]
8 (return) [ Histoire de Gentchiscan, et de toute la Dinastie des
Mongous ses Successeurs, Conquerans de la Chine; tirée de
l’Histoire de la Chine par le R. P. Gaubil, de la Société de
Jesus, Missionaire à Peking; à Paris, 1739, in 4to. This
translation is stamped with the Chinese character of domestic
accuracy and foreign ignorance.]
9 (return) [ See the Histoire du Grand Genghizcan, premier
Empereur des Moguls et Tartares, par M. Petit de la Croix, à
Paris, 1710, in 12mo.; a work of ten years’ labor, chiefly drawn
from the Persian writers, among whom Nisavi, the secretary of
Sultan Gelaleddin, has the merit and prejudices of a
contemporary. A slight air of romance is the fault of the
originals, or the compiler. See likewise the articles of
_Genghizcan_, _Mohammed_, _Gelaleddin_, &c., in the Bibliothèque
Orientale of D’Herbelot. * Note: The preface to the Hist. des
Mongols, (Paris, 1824) gives a catalogue of the Arabic and
Persian authorities.—M.]
10 (return) [ Haithonus, or Aithonus, an Armenian prince, and
afterwards a monk of Premontré, (Fabric, Bibliot. Lat. Medii Ævi,
tom. i. p. 34,) dictated in the French language, his book _de
Tartaris_, his old fellow-soldiers. It was immediately translated
into Latin, and is inserted in the Novus Orbis of Simon Grynæus,
(Basil, 1555, in folio.) * Note: A précis at the end of the new
edition of Le Beau, Hist. des Empereurs, vol. xvii., by M.
Brosset, gives large extracts from the accounts of the Armenian
historians relating to the Mogul conquests.—M.]
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