Sūz va Gudāz ‘Burning and melting’, a poem by Muḥammad Riz̤ā Nawʻī Khabūshānī (d. 1609 or 1610), commissioned for the Mughal Prince Danyāl (1581-1614). Contains three miniatures, Mughal dating from the 17th century.
The collected poems of Amānī, in which the Chaghatay and Persian poems separated. The contents are as follows: ff 1v-89v : Chagatai poems, beginning with a masnavi in praise of God, the end of which is lost. The following contents do not appear to match those of the original volume, owing to t...
The Sanglakh, a Chagatai-Persian dictionary with a grammatical introduction by Muhammad Mehdi. The author of the text is Mirza Mehdi Khan, a well-known historian of Nadir Shah. In the preface, he says that, from his early youth, he had been attracted by the poems of Mir Alisher Navoiy and that...
This volume contains the Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Divan of Hafız by Sudi. Sudi was a native of Bosnia, during the latter part of his life he was employed as preceptor for the pages in the palace of İbrahim Paşa (Grand Vezir 1004-10 AH/1595-1602 CE). He left, apart from the current work...
This volume contains a tabulated version of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province...
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Arabic, German, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
The divan of Abu'l-Ghazi Sultan Husayn Bayqara, with a literal Persian translation and explanatory notes by Muhammad Rafi' bin Muhammad Yahya, Munshi al-Mamalik. The translator's preface occupies the first four pages of the text. After a wordy panegyric on the reigning sovereign, Shah Sultan H...