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...
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...
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