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11. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/1
Title:
Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1916'
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division: August 1916). It is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia. The volume includes a note on official use, title page and ''No...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

12. Or 5932

Reference (shelfmark):
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

13. Or 6444

Reference (shelfmark):
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

14. Or 8208

Reference (shelfmark):
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

15. Or 8567

Reference (shelfmark):
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

16. Or 11996

Reference (shelfmark):
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

17. Or 12638

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12638
Title:
A collection of mas̲navīs
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:
1800-1899
Extent:
113 ff