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1. Add MS 6646

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Title:
[Turkic Vocabulary]
Scope & Content:
A vocabulary of Turkic words explained in Persian along with a grammatical sketch in the introduction, originally authored by Fazlullah Khan. The author describes himself as a cousin of Seyf Khan, an Emir of the reign of Aurangzeb, and a descendant of Chaku, an Emir of Timur. He compiled this wo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 52 ff

2. Add MS 7691

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Title:
[Persian treatise on orthography, pronunciation and penmanship]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on pronunciation and penmanship in Persian authored by Abu’l-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Riz̤ā, Majlis-Navīs-i Naṣīrī (ابو القاسم بن محمد رضا مجلسنویس نصیری). The text begins: الحمد للله الذي استنسخ لالواح قلوبنا نسخة عرفان وحدانيته... The author, who calls himself a bo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 111 ff

3. Add MS 7851

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Title:
Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā / قصص الانبياء
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the history of the Abrahamic prophets by Qāẓī Nāṣir, son of Burhān, of Ribāṭ Oghūz. In the frequent pieces of verse inserted throughout the text, the author refers to himself simply as Nāṣir Rabghūzī (see ff 68v, 77v, 288v, as well as in the last verse of the epilogue). His ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 text, ff. 249

4. Add MS 7875

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Title:
Majālis an-nafāᵓis - مجالس النفائس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains notices of contemporary poets writing in both Persian and Chagatai compiled by Mir Alisher Navoiy. Mir Alisher Navoiy is considered to be one of the most prolific writers in Chagatai. His contemporary, Babur, who gave an account of him in the Baburname, remarks that, altho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
987
Extent:
1 text, 129 ff

5. Add MS 7886

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Title:
Abushqa - ابشقه
Scope & Content:
A dictionary of Turkic words compiled especially from the works of Alisher Navoiy, with copious explanations, all explained in Ottoman Turkish. This work is commonly known as the Abushqa from the first word explained within it. The author, who is unknown, was apparently an Ottoman-speaker who ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 273 ff

6. Add MS 7907

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Title:
Dīvān-i ‘Ubaydī - ديوان عبيدى
Scope & Content:
The collected poems of the Uzbek prince ‘Ubayd Allāh Khān (reigned 1534-39 CE), brother of Shaybānī Khān and son of Mahmud Sultan. He was, after the death of Shaybānī Khān, the virtual chief and mainstay of the Uzbek Empire, but was not raised to Khanship until after the death of his cousin Abu ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 text, 78 ff

7. Add MS 7908

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Title:
Khamsa-’i Navā’ī / خمسۀ نوائي
Scope & Content:
The five masnavī poems of ‘Alī Shīr Navā’ī (d. 906/1501). 1 (1v-41r): Ḥayrat al-abrār A didactic poem (the first in this Khamsa) in emulation of Niẓāmī’s Persian Makhzan al-asrār. 2 (42v-113v): Sadd-i Iskandarī A poem (the fifth in this Khamsa) composed in emulation of Niẓāmī’s Iskandarnāma....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. 250

8. Add MS 7909

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Title:
Ḥayrat al-abrār - حيرت الابرار
Scope & Content:
The first poem of Navā’ī’s Khamsa, written in emulation of Niẓāmī’s Persian Makhzan al-asrār. This text is further embellished by thirteen half-page paintings, an unvan and gold-rulings. The last folio of the manuscript contains a note relating to the purchase of the manuscript in Qazvin on t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
1006
Extent:
1 text, 157 ff

9. Add MS 7910

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Title:
Dīvān-i Navā’ī - ديوان نوائى
Scope & Content:
A collection of the poetry of Navoiy with the same preface as that found in Or 401. The contents of the current volume are: ff 1v-12v : Preface; ff 12v-218r : Ghazals in alphabetical order ; ff 218r-230v : Terji'bends, Mukhammasat, Qit'ahs and Matali'. The number of ghazals rhyming in alif...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
1041
Extent:
1 text, 230 ff

10. Add MS 7911

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Title:
Gharā’ib al-ṣighār / غرائب الصغار
Scope & Content:
The first Dīvān of Navā’ī; with preface.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text; 180 ff.

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