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31. Or 9661

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9661
Title:
[Tarjuma-’i Qābūsnāma] - [ترجمۀ قابوسنامه]
Scope & Content:
A Chaghatay translation of Qābūsnāma, the Persian treatise on ethics and government, completed in 475/1082, by Kay-Kā’ūs ibn Vashmgīr. This copy lacks both the beginning and the end. The text opens with the list of 44 chapters. The text was copied at Kashghar, likely in the 18th century CE.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 128 ff

32. Or 9662

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9662
Title:
[Tazkirat al-jinān] - تذكرت الجنان
Scope & Content:
Notices of Sufi saints from East Turkestan. Also included are a sermon for ‘Īd al-Aḍḥà, and supplicatory prayers. This manuscript was copied in Yarkand in 1245 AH (1829-30 CE).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
1245
Extent:
1 text, 144 ff

33. Or 9663

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9663
Title:
Majmu''a - مجموعه
Scope & Content:
A collection of seven fiction and non-fiction pieces, including: (I) ff 1v-22r : Tazkirat-i Ḥażrat-i Imām Muḥammad Ghazālī, a popular account of the great theologian, mystic and jurist Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī; (II) ff 22v-27r : Ḥikāya-’i manẓūma, a popular account of the Prophet Muḥammad صلعم, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
1326
Extent:
Codex, 109 ff

34. Or 12201

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12201
Title:
[Text fragment]
Scope & Content:
A fragment of coarse Chinese paper, used as a wrapping for Chinese and Uighur manuscript fragments from Dunhuang. It contains ten lines of (non-mediaeval) text in Turkic with various orthographic idiosyncrasies recording financial transactions, and is signed by ‘Āsim (sic) Ākhūn and Mollā Sulṭān...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 text, 1 f

35. Or 12886, text 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12886, text 5
Title:
[Legal document]
Scope & Content:
A legal document dated 1298 AH (1880-81 CE), once used as a wrapper for Chinese and Uighur fragments; with two similar documents on the verso, dated 1286 AH (1869-70 CE) and 1305 AH (1887-88 CE). The texts were produced at Khotan.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
Codex, 1 f

36. Or 13151

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13151
Title:
[Bilingual Turki-Chinese Laissez-Passer]
Scope & Content:
A laissez-passer granted to a Turkic man employed by Otani, a Japanese official undertaking a visit to Urumqi, possibly for an archaeological expedition. The Turkic man is named as Muhammad Ali Akhund, son of Ghiyas al-Din. The document asks that he be granted leave to travel to Urumqi with Otan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Chinese
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 text, 1 f

37. Or 16044

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16044
Title:
[Religious treatise in Chagatai]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a didactic religious treatise in Chagatai, concerning aspects of Islamic doctrine and ethics. The author is not named. The text features interlinear Persian translations of selected words throughout. Among the other contents of this volume include a passage in Persian acros...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 49 ff

38. Or 16045

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16045
Title:
Collection of two Chagatai texts
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a religious didactic work in Chagatai, as well as a selection of ghazals and quatrains by Mir Ali Shir Nava’i.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
late 12th century
Extent:
Codex, 119 ff