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Language Persian Level [32] Fonds

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12893
Title:: 1 copy of A letter from John Lawrence to Gulāb Singh, Maharajah of Jammū by Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1811-1879
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1851-1851
Extent:: 2 f including envelope

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12984
Title:: 1 copy of Kunūz al-ḥaqā’iq fī rumūz al-daqā’iq by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan-i Khvārazmī
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1500-1550
Extent:: 261 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12985
Title:: Garshāsbnāmah by Asadī Ṭūsī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 11th cent. گرشاسبنامه
Scope & Content:: The Garshāsbnāmah
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 981
Extent:: 106 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12988
Title:: Abū'l-Faẓl ibn Mubārak, Akbarnāmah
Scope & Content:: Volume 1 of Abū'l-Faẓl's account of the reign of Akbar describing his Timurid ancestry and the history of his grandfather Babur (1483-1530) and father Humayun (1508-56). Since a dated note on f.134v cannot be read with any certainty, a date of 1602-3 is posited on stylistic grounds. The second vo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1602-1603
Extent:: 163 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12999
Title:: 1 copy of Kitāb-i Sharḥ al-vāṣilīn va tawsīf al-jāhilīn by Jamālī Ardistānī
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1400-1499
Extent:: 118 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006
Title:: Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 919-1177
Extent:: Codex; ff. 159+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13034
Title:: Verzeichnis einer kostbaren und selten Samlung von 107 Handschriften in der türkischen, arabischen und persischen Sprache
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a listing and description of the 107 manuscripts in the British Library's holdings acquired from Alexandre Jaba (Alexandre August Zaba) by the British Museum in 1872. The manuscripts are divided according to the language of their contents (Turkish, Arabic, or Persian) and th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, German, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 text, 28 ff

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