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Husayn b. Muhammad b. Abul-Rida al-Husayni al-Alawi: Tarjamah i Mahasin i Isfahan.

(Translation of the Beauties of Isfahan). (1329) Persia.

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Taken from: Journal Of The Royal Asiatic Society Of Great Britain And Ireland for-1901.

Account of a rare manuscript History of Isfahan, by Edwaed G. Beowne

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Some of the public buildings of Isfahan are next described: first the governor’s palace, or Daru’l-Amara, of which a wordy and bombastic description fills a couple of pages; next the palace of Hazar Kushk (the Thousand Kiosques); then the wonderful bazaars, filled with the produce of every clime (f. 296) — bijouterie from Baghdad, silks from Kufa, brocades from Rum, sherbets from Egypt, gems from Bahrayn, ebony from Umman, ivory from India, curiosities from China, furs from Khurasan, wood from Tabaristan, woollen goods and blankets from Adharbayagan (i.e. Adharbayjan) and Gilan, carpets and rugs from Armenia, and the like. A special kind of cotton thread peculiar to Isfahan is especially noticed (f. 30b), whereof one mithqal sells at 36 dirhams, while one kharuar of stuffs manufactured from it is worth 10 kharuars of goldembroidered silk of Egypt.