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Language Persian Level [32] Fonds

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413
Title:: Eight Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:: A collection of works mostly by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana (d. 1847) of Bombay who was the chief priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis, composed for Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) of the Madras Army who from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Bombay. Mostly copied by the author whose full name is given he...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+94+vi (ff. 19-21; 26-30; 46-48, 58-60; 75-76 blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25423
Title:: Divan-i Baki - ديوان باقى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Divan of Baki, the greatest lyric poet of the Ottoman Empire, written during his lifetime. This copy is more complete than the one found at Add MS 7922. The Divan begins with 27 kaside arranged according to the individuals praised: (I-IV) f 2v : In praise of Sultan S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1004
Extent:: 1 text, 109 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25900
Title:: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:: The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing 19 whole-page miniatures, one (f. 41r) contemporary; 14 in the Herat later-Timurid style; and four (ff 234v, 245v, 250v and 271v) in the Tabriz/Safavid style of c. 1535-40. Three paintings ( ff. 121v, 161r ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1442-1443
Extent:: 319 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26530
Title:: 1 copy of Ghazal az Muḥammad Salīm ba-takhlluṣ-i Miskīn by Miskīn, Muḥammad Salīm
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1810-1820
Extent:: 50 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27254
Title:: James Skinner, Tazkirat al-umarā
Scope & Content:: Biographies of the princely families of Rajputana and Punjab, written by Colonel James Skinner (1778-1841) before 1830. Contains a list of contents (ff. 1v-2v) and an introductory poem of five verses (f. 3v) to Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) to whom the volume was presented. It is illustrated with...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1830
Extent:: 289 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27261
Title:: Khamsah-'i Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 خمسۀ نظامى and 22 other texts
Scope & Content:: A miscellany written for Jalāl al-Dīn Iskandar ibn ʻUmar Shaykh Decorations: Miniature: Folio 6r: The ascent of the Prophet over the Ka'bah guided by Jibrā'īl and escorted by angels. Miniature: Folio 38r: Shīrīn looking at Khusraw's portrait watched by Shāpūr. Miniature: Folio 47v: Khusraw and ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: From Jumāda I, 813 to Jumāda II, 814
Extent:: 546 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Ms 27262
Title:: Saʻdī, Būstān
Scope & Content:: Saʻdī’s Būstān illustrated with ten miniatures, Mughal period. Bound in painted and glazed covers depicting flowers and birds (outside) and animals and mythical beasts (inside). Dated at Agra, 26 Rabīʻ I 1039 (13 November 1629). Copied in large elegant nastaʻliq by the well-known physician and po...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1629
Extent:: 175 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27268
Title:: Zarātusht nāmah by کی کاوس ابن كی خسرو ابن دارا زراتشت نامه and 1 other text
Scope & Content:: Zoroastrian texts
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 98 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27312
Title:: 1 copy of Makhzan al-islām by Darvezah, Ak̲h̲ūnd, 1533 or 1534-1638 or 1639
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pashto and Persian
Date Range:: 1700-1800
Extent:: 290 ff

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