Exposition), but of which the true title is said by the Nafd'isu'lma'dsir to h&Darfiqa mubaiyan (The Law expounded). Sprenger found it called a\so Fiqa-i-bdburi (Babur's Law). It is a versified and highly orthodox treatise on Muhammadan Law, written for the instruction of Kamran. A Commentary on it, called also Mubin, was written by Shaikh Zain. Babur quotes from it (f. 351£) when writing of linear measures. Berezine found and published a large portion of it as part of his Chrestomathie Turque (Kazan 1857) ; the same fragment may be what was published by Ilminsky. Teufel remarks that the MS. used by Berezine may have descended direct from one sent by Babur to a distinguished legist of Transoxiana, because the last words of Berezine's imprint are Babur's Begleitschreiben {envoi) ; he adds the expectation that the legist's name might be learned. Perhaps this recipient was the Khwaja Kalan, son of Khwaja Yahya, a Samarkandl to whom Babur sent a copy of his Memoirs on March 7th 1520 (935 AH. f. 363).'
2. The Bdbur-ndma diary of 925-6 ah. (1519-20 ad.). This is almost contemporary with the Mubin and is the earliest part of the Bdbur-ndma writings now known. It was written about a decade earlier than the narrative of 899 to 914 AH. (1494 to 1507 AD.), carries later annotations, and has now the character of a draft awaiting revision.
3. A Dlwdn (Collection of poems). By dovetailing a few fragments of information, it becomes clear that by 925 AH. (1919 AD.) Babur had made a Collection of poetical compositions distinct from the Rampur Diwdn ; it is what he sent to Pulad Sultan in 925 AH. (f. 23S). Its date excludes the greater part of the Rampur one. It may have contained those verses to which my husband drew attention in the Asiatic Quarterly Review of 1911, as quoted in the Abushqa; and it may have contained, in agreement with its earlier date, the verses Babur quotes as written in his earlier years. None of the quatrains found, in the Abushqa and there attributed to " Babur Mlrza ",
1 For accounts of the Mubin, Akbar-nama Bib. Ind. ed. i. 118, trs. H. Beveridge i. 278 note, Badayiini ib. i, 343, trs. Ranking p. 450, Sprenger ZDMG. 1862, Teufel ib. 1883. The Akbar-nama account appears in Turk! in the "Fragments" associated with Kehr's transcript of the B.N. (JRAS. 1908, p. 76, A. S. B.'s art. Babur-ndma. Babur mentions the Mubin (f. 252*, f. 351*).
