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1. Add MS 6613, ff 1v-27v

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Add MS 6613, ff 1v-27v
Title:
Makhzan al-Asrār by Niẓāmī مخزن الاسرار
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folio 3v: The Prophet on Burāq guided by Jibrā'īl and escorted by angels ascending the heavens. The constellations, signs of the Zodiac and the seven heavens are all depicted. Miniature: Folio 12v: Anūshīrvān and the owls. Miniature: Folio 14v: Sulṭān Sanjar and the old w...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
1 text

2. Add MS 6613, ff 27v-90r

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Title:
Khusraw u Shīrīn by Niẓāmī خسرو و شیرین
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folio 34r: The elders pleading on behalf of Khusraw to Hurmuzd. Miniature: Folio 36v: Shāpūr watching a boy taking the portrait of Khusraw down from the tree for Shīrīn to look at. Miniature: Folio 40r: Khusraw and Shīrīn together in bed. Miniature: Folio 42r: Khusraw wat...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
1 text

3. Add MS 6613, ff 90v-138r

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Title:
Laylā ū Majnūn by Niẓāmī لیلی و مجنون
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folio 92v: The Prophet on Burāq ascending the heavens preceded by Jibrā'īl who is holding out a flower towards a lion on a cloud. An angel (Isrāfīl?) blowing a seven-headed trumpet. Miniature: Folio 100r: Laylā and Majnūn at school. Miniature: Folio 103v: Majnūn taken to ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
1 text

4. Add MS 6613, ff 138v-196r

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Title:
Haft Paykar by Niẓāmī هفت پیکر
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folio 148r: Bahrām Gūr killing the dragon. Miniature: Folio 155r: Fitnah carrying the ox on her shoulders up steps to Bahrām Gūr. Miniature: Folio 159v: Bahrām Gūr with the Indian Princess in the Black Pavilion. Miniature: Folio 165v: Bahrām Gūr with the Moorish Princess ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
1 text

5. Add MS 6613, ff 196v-264r

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Add MS 6613, ff 196v-264r
Title:
Iskandarnāmah by Niẓāmī اسکندرنامه
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folio 208r: Iskandar celebrating his victory over the Zangis (Habashis). Miniature: Folio 219v: Iskandar comforting the dying Dārā. Miniature: Folio 232r: Iskandar entertained by Nūshābah. Miniature: Folio 244r: The Khāqān of Chīn brought bound before Iskandar. Miniature:...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
1 text

6. Add MS 6613, ff 264v-300r

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Add MS 6613, ff 264v-300r
Title:
Khiradnāmah by Niẓāmī خردنامه
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folio 274r: Hurmus hypnotising the sages who had gathered to defeat him in debate. (Inscription eulogising the patron of the MS., Abu'l-Ḥasan Mīrzā and also stating that the miniature was completed by Ṭālib in 1077 [=1666-1667]).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
1 text

7. Add MS 7492, f 48v

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Add MS 7492, f 48v
Title:
Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
Scope & Content:
Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

F. 48v

8. Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v

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Add MS 7492, ff 52v-66v
Title:
al-Zīj al-Shāmil الزيج الشامل [Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar أثير الدين الأبهري، المفضّل بن عمر]
Scope & Content:
Astronomical handbook in ten bābs (أبواب), each subdivided into fuṣūl (فصول) in the tradition of Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī and his colleagues at the Bāb al-Tibn Observatory in Baghdad (أبو الوفاء البوزجاني, d. 998, see f. 52v, line 3). The incipit also mentions the earlier work carried out under c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 52v-67v

9. Add MS 12401

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Add MS 12401
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Scope & Content:
TuTEH NAMEH, or Tales of' a Parrot; in Persian. Octavo. [12,401 ] John Crawfurd: Collection of Oriental Mss. chiefly Javanese and Bugis. Fables: Tuteh Nameh, or tales of a Parrot: in Persian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 14653

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Add MS 14653
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Scope & Content:
LIFE of St. Eugenius;-Sermon respecting him, by Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ; -Life of Paul of the Thebaid. On vellum, of the viiith or ixth century. Small Quarto. 14,653. Paul, of the Thebaid: Life of. Syriac. Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermon respecting St. Eugenius.: Syriac. Eugenius, Bisho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Persian, and Syriac
Date Range:
8th century-9th century
Extent:
1 item

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