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1. Add MS 5242

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Title:
Polyglot Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, French, Geez, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
20 folios

2. Add MS 5600

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Title:
Shāhnāmah, by Firdawsī
Scope & Content:
Firdawsī’s epic the Shāhnāmah ‘Book of kings’ with the older preface. Refurbished ca 1616 (f..274r) in the studio of ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān Khānān. Contains 90 overpainted mniatures by attributed Mughal artists. Illustrations: f.12v: Hushang and Gayumars fighting the Black Div to avenge the death o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
late 15th century
Extent:

vi, 586,vi folios with 90 interleaves

3. Add MS 6613

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Title:
Makhzan al-Asrār by Niẓāmī مخزن الاسرار and 5 other texts
Scope & Content:
Khamsah of Niẓāmī Decorations: Miniature: Folio 3v: The Prophet on Burāq guided by Jibrā'īl and escorted by angels ascending the heavens. The constellations, signs of the Zodiac and the seven heavens are all depicted. Miniature: Folio 12v: Anūshīrvān and the owls. Miniature: Folio 14v: Sulṭān S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
300 folios

4. Add MS 7628

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Title:
Jāmi‘ al-Tavārīkh by Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, 1247?-1318 جامع التواریخ
Scope & Content:
Jāmi‘ al-Tavārīkh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
837
Extent:
728 folios

5. Add MS 7735

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Title:
Manṭiq al-Ṭayr by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 منطق الطير
Scope & Content:
A Later Herat/Timurid copy of Manṭiq al-Ṭayr Decorations: Miniature: Folio 28v: The darvīsh kneeling before the princess he loved. Miniature: Folio 30v: The hoopoe and the peacock. Miniature: Folio 49r: Shaykh Ṣan'ān gazing at the Greek Christian maiden asleep on her balcony. Miniature: Folio 6...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
208 folios

6. Add MS 7759

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Title:
Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān
Scope & Content:
Collected poems of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī (d. 792/1389), copied by Sulayman al-Fushanji in Ramazan 855/October 1451. Although no place is mentioned in the colophon, the name of the scribe may be connected to Fushanj in the province of Herat, Afghanistan, possibly suggesting Herat as...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1451
Extent:

codex: ff. ii+141+ii

7. Add MS 7801

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Title:
Jarūnnāmah by Qadrī جرون نامه
Scope & Content:
A mas̲navī on the taking of Jarūn (Hormuz) from the Portuguese by Imām Qulī Khān containing 10 miniatures. Isfahan/Safavid style, 1697 Decorations: Miniature: Folio 11v: Imām Qulī Khān with Allah Virdī Khān (damaged). Miniature: Folio 15v: Shāh 'Abbās with Imām Qulī Khān. Miniature: Folio 43r: ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1109
Extent:
76 folios

8. Add MS 16561

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Title:
Shamākhī anthology
Scope & Content:
A collection of poetry by 12 different authors of the 14th and 15th century. It was copied in 1468 in the capital city Shirvan in present day Azerbayjan by Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn, a royal scribe, possibly at the court of the Shirvānshāh Farrukh Yasar (1462-1501). The manuscript contains one double...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1468
Extent:

ff. 89

9. Add MS 18113

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Title:
KULLIYÁTI Khwájú Karmání. The poetical works of Khwájú of Karmán, in Persian. Paper; written A.H. 798 (A.D. 1396). Folio. [Add. 18,113.]
Scope & Content:
Dated Mss. Oriental Persian: Poetical works of Khwaju of Karman: 1396. Karmání: : Pers. Khwájú Karmání: Kulliyát e Khwájú Karmání: Pers.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1396
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 18188

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Title:
Firdawsī, Shāhnāmah
Scope & Content:
Firdawsī’s epic ‘Book of kings’ without preface. Copied by Ghiyās al-Dīn Bāyazīd Ṣarrāf. It is illustrated with 72 miniatures, Turkman/Timurid style. Dated 23 Jumadi II 891 (26 June 1486)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1486
Extent:

500 folios