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Language Kurdish Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 7826

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Title:
Xusraw û Şîrîn - خوسراو وو شیرین
Scope & Content:
A masnavi poem on the story of Khusraw and Shirin in the Gorani dialect (related to Zazaki, considered by some to be a Kurdish language). A series of additional couplets in Nastᵓaliq hand can be found on f. 1r. The manuscript was copied in 1231 AH (1816 CE) and is incomplete at the beginning...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish
Date Range:
1231
Extent:
1 text, 151 ff

2. Add MS 7829

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Title:
Two Gorani Poems
Scope & Content:
Two poems in the Gorani dialect (related to Zazaki and considered by some to be a Kurdish language). ff. 1r-67v : Kitāb-i Khurshīd-i Khāvar, the story of Khurshīd, son of the King of Khāvar Zamīn and Khirāmān, the daughter of the Emperor of China. ff. 68v-134v : Kitāb-i Laylá va Majnūn, the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 134 ff

3. Add MS 23554

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Title:
Bahram û Gulandam - باهرام و گولاندام
Scope & Content:
A masnavi poem in the Gorani dialect (related to Zazaki and classified by some as a Kurdish language). Bahram û Gulandam is the love story of Bahrām, son of King Kishwar, and Gulandām, daughter of the Emperor of China. The manuscript is incomplete at the beginning and end. Some folios are wate...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 text, 53 ff

4. Add MS 26319

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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

5. IO Islamic 4443

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IO Islamic 4443
Title:
Mr. Rich's Papers: Various Manuscripts in Oriental Characters
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous documents in Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Ahıskaca. Apparently from the papers of Claudius James Rich. The sizes of the papers vary and are provided in the appropriate child records attached this overview.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Georgian, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Codex, 28 ff

6. Or 5932

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Or 5932
Title:
Codex
Scope & Content:
A miscellany of poems and prose in Kurdish, Persian, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. 1r : Graffiti in Arabic and small ownership seal in top left corner. ff. 1v-8r : A collection of ghazals in Persian. The text is written in Naskh hand in black ink, with titles and marginalia in red. It has occa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 codex, 97 ff

7. Or 6444

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Or 6444
Title:
Gorani Anthology
Scope & Content:
A poetical anthology in oblong safīna format. The anthology contains 370 poems by various authors, including Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá, Mawlānā Ḥāfiẓ Farhād and Ḥasan. ff. 1-8r : A masnavi poem about the Prophet Muhammad and the four first Caliphs in Persian. ff. 8v-54v : A collection of poet...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:
1197-98
Extent:
1 codex, 84 ff

8. Or 8208

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Or 8208
Title:
Sayf al-Mulūk - سيف الملوك
Scope & Content:
A masnavi poem entitled Sayf al-Mulūk, composed by Muḥammad Jawād Siyāh-pūsh, who died 1246AH (1830-31 CE). The manuscript is incomplete and damaged, with numerous pages missing parts of their contents. The manuscript text appears to be in a dialect of Kurmanji Kurdish written in fully-vocaliz...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:
1286
Extent:
1 text, 63 ff

9. Or 8567

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Or 8567
Title:
[Risālah fi’l-lughat al-turkiyah] - [رسالة في اللغة التركية]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary compiled, with an introduction in Arabic, by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ. In the vocabulary, which is divided into a preface, 4 rukun and a hatime (f 3r), the Ottoman Turkish has not been inserted in the text after f 7r. The fact that the author has...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 33 ff

10. Or 11996

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Or 11996
Title:
Mam û Zîn - مام و زین
Scope & Content:
The Kurdish national epic Mam û Zîn, originally composed by Ehmed Xanî. A masnavi poem on themes of love. The manuscript has been foliated to begin from f. 3v, the start of the masnavi. Folios 1r-3r contain couplets and various graffiti in nastaliq, some of them dated from 1225 AH (1810-11 CE),...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:
1221
Extent:
1 text, 108 ff