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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3001
Title:: Muntakhab al-naḥw (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Bilgramī, Ḥaydar (Amīr) Subject: Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1189
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3016
Title:: ʿAjāʾib al-maqdūr fī akhbār (nawāʾib) tīmūr (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn ʻArabshāh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1392-1450 VIAF ID: 81960761 Subject: Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3164
Title:: تنبیہ الغافلین Tanbīh al-g̱ẖāfilīn
Scope & Content:: A treatise on Islamic religious duties, based on traditions of the Prophet. Translated from the Persian original of Shah Rafi' al-Din ibn Wali Allah of Delhi. By Beni Narayan Kshatri. Begins: اچھی اچھی مفتین اور تعریفین اللہ تعالی کو ثابت ھین کہ خدا تعالی پیدا کرنے والا اور پالنے والا تمام خلق و...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1839
Extent:: 118 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3171
Title:: Nān va namak
Scope & Content:: Nān va namak 'Bread and salt', a cookery-book, originally containing ten chapters, on the kitchen recipes as used in the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's court. Text incomplete with leaves missing after f. 63v, in the middle of section 9. Title taken from note in English on f. 1r: "Kookery / KOOKI...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 63 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3214
Title:: Sindbādnāmah
Scope & Content:: An anonymous version of the adventures of Sindbad in Persian verse, thought to have been originally composed in Sanskrit and subsequently translated into many languages. This copy is believed to have been executed in Golconda, India, around the year 1575. It is written in nastaʻliq script and co...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1575
Extent:: 166 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3427
Title:: al-Ṣurāḥ min al-ṣiḥāḥ (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century VIAF ID: 73771977 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1013
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3442
Title:: Shāhanshāhanāmah by Ṣabā, Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, d. 1822 or 3 شاهنشاهنامه
Scope & Content:: Shāhinshāhnāmah Decorations: Miniature: Folio 28r: Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh''s defeat of Ṣādiq Khān Shiqāqī. Dimensions unknown: 21x17cm. Miniature: Folio 32r: Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh seated on the Peacock Throne, two princess to his left, ministers on his right and before him presenting bags of money on trays. D...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1st of Rajab, 1225
Extent:: 451folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 3540
Title:: Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī شاهنامه
Scope & Content:: Persian epic poetry Decorations: Miniature: Folios 1v - 2r: Double-page miniature within a gorgeous illuminated border, of Sulaymān and Queen of Sheba, a large and crowded composition; the execution is meticulous, but the drawing of the faces a trifle weak. Each half (miniature only) Dimensions...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 569 folios

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