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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18103
Title:: Turkī mīzān - تركى ميزان
Scope & Content:: A set of paradigms of Chagatai grammar explained in Persian. The text was compiled by Mīr Sayyid Ḥusayn for Muhammad Akbar, the son of Aurangzeb. . This manuscript was copied in India in the 12th or 13th century AH (18th or 19th century CE). 86 f. 20 x 13 cm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 1 text, 86 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18548
Title:: [Biography of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Isḥāq al-Ḥusaynī]
Scope & Content:: A life of the founder of the Safavid dynasty translated from the original Persian by Muḥammad Nashāṭī. The first leaf of the text, which contains the beginning of the doxology, is absent. In the extant portion of the preface, the translator, who describes himself as a humble Dervish leading a li...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 498 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319
Title:: [Five texts in Persian, English, Kurdish (Laki and Ardalani) and Chagatai]
Scope & Content:: A codex of three texts compiled separately: ff. 1v-4r : Laki Kurdish-Persian glossary ff. 5v-7r : Ardalani Kurdish-Persian glossary ff. 9r-10r : Kurdish-English glossary ff. 11v-16r : Chagatai-Persian glossary of unusual terms in the Vaqiat-i Baburi ff. 18v-30v : Jām-i Jahānnamāī in Persian.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai, English, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century - 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 30

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319, ff. 11v-16r
Title:: [Chagatai-Persian Glossary of Unusual Terms in the Vaqiat-i Baburi]
Scope & Content:: A Glossary of Chagatai and other uncommon words in the Memoirs of Babur, giving the words in the order in which they occur in the text along with their Persian equivalents. The Chagatai words have been underlined in pencil, with occasional references to their appearance in an unknown copy of th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item, ff. 6

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26324
Title:: [Vaqi'āt-i Bāburī] / وقعات بابوري
Scope & Content:: Passages from the memoirs of the Mughal emperor Bābur (d. 937/1530), rare in the original Chaghatay. There are occasional pencilled notations regarding page references to the proper order of the fragments. This copy was produced by Dawud ibn 'Ali al-Kashmiri. The note at the start of the volum...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and English
Date Range:: 1039
Extent:: 1 text, ff. 118

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Persian 1224
Title:: Sabāt al-‘ājizīn - ثبات العاجزين
Scope & Content:: A didactic masnavī poem on Islamic doctrine, ethics and worship composed by Ṣūfī Allāhyār. This work was opied by Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Qādirī, son of Ismā‘īl (?), disciple of Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Khān in India and completed on 29 Ramażān 1188 AH (2 December 1774 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 1188
Extent:: 1 text, 69 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Persian 1400
Title:: Dīvān-i Shāhī - ديوان شاهى
Scope & Content:: The collected lyric verse of Āqā Malik ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Fīrūzkūhī Sabzavārī, called Shāhī. This volume was copied by ‘Abd al-Qādir for Miyān-Ṣāḥib ‘Āqibat Maḥmūd. The manuscript was produced in India and finished on 10 Rajab 1159 AH (27 July 1746 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 1159
Extent:: 1 text, 57 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Persian 1401
Title:: Majmu'a - مجموعه
Scope & Content:: A codex of seven texts as follows: 1v-18r : ‘Unvān-i Dīvān-i Navā’ī, an introduction to the Dīvān of Navā’ī, in prose; 19v-28r : Masnavī-i Amīr Navā’ī, a masnavī poem, probably from the Dīvān of Navā’ī; 31v-60r : Tarjī‘-band, Mustazād va Musaddasāt va Mukhammasāt va ghayruh, stanzaic verses ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex, 103 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Delhi Persian 1402
Title:: [Majmu'a] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: Three texts in Chagatai: ff 1v-48v : [Dīvān-i Ḥusaynī], the Divan of the last ruler of Timurid Iran and Afghanistan, Abū l-Ghāzī Sultan Ḥusayn Bāyqarā (reg. 873-911/1468-1506); ff 49r-79v : Dīvān-i Bābur, poems of the Mughal emperor Bābur (died 937 AH/1530 CE); ff 81v-126r : Dīvān-i Shāhī, p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 1190
Extent:: Codex, 126 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 53
Title:: Dīvān-i Navā’ī - ديوان نوائى
Scope & Content:: The collected poetical work of Alisher Navoiy. This manuscript was copied for Navvāb-Ṣāḥib Fīrūzjang (perhaps a ṣūba-dār of Patna) in Northern India in Zū l-Ḥijja 1163 AH (November 1750 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai
Date Range:: 1163
Extent:: 1 text, 350 ff

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