The chronicles of a traveler : (Record no. 41519)

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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number DS363.
Item number M58 1840
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Personal name Mitford, George Newnham.
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Title The chronicles of a traveler :
Remainder of title or, a history of the Afghan wars with Persia, in the beginning of the last century, from their commencement to the accession of Sultan Ashruf : being a translation of the “Tareekh-i-Seeah,” from the Latin of J. C. Clodius /
Statement of responsibility, etc by George Newnham Mitford.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc James Ridgway, Piccadilly,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1840.
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Extent xliv, 206 pages ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “To which is added, a brief account of the Afghan usurpation, till its overthrow by Tahmasp Koolly Khan”—cover page.
General note “Father Tadeusz Judas Krusiński (also seen as Tadeusz Jan Krusiński, 1675‒1756) was a Polish Jesuit priest who spent nearly 20 years in Persia (Iran) at the court in the Safavid capital of Isfahan. In 1722 he was an eyewitness to the siege and conquest of Isfahan by an invading Afghan force. Krusiński wrote an account in Latin of the war and its immediate aftermath, which included the extirpation of the Persian royal family by the Afghan commander, Mahmud Ghilji. Krusiński left Persia in 1725. Passing through Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) on his way back to Europe, he gave a Turkish translation of his narrative that he himself reportedly had made to Ibrahim Padshah, vizier of Sultan Ahmed III. In 1729 the vizier had the work published at the newly established Ottoman press. John Christian Clodius, professor of Arabic at the University of Leipzig, re-translated this work from Turkish into Latin and had it published in Germany in 1731. The book presented here is a translation into English of Clodius’s Latin translation. The English translator was George Newnham Mitford, about whom little is known. Another version of the narrative, a translation into French of Krusiński’s original Latin text, was made by another Jesuit, Father Du Cerceau, and published in The Hague in 1725. Mitford’s objective in translating Clodius’s translation was to point up major differences between passages in this text and those describing the same events in Du Cerceau’s version. In his introduction Mitford contends that Du Cerceau introduced major inaccuracies, and that these later were repeated by early British writers on Persia such as the merchant Jonas Hanway. Mitford’s translation appeared in London in 1840, a time of heightened public interest in Afghanistan as a consequence of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42)”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Linkage Includes bibliographical references.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Afghan Wars.
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Geographic name Afghanistan – History.
Geographic name Afghanistan – Kings and rulers – Biography.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_m58_1840 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds363_m58_1840 </a>
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 20/01/2018   DS363.M58 1840 3ACKU000504778 20/01/2018 20/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.