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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 843, ff 411r-413r
Title:: Mufradāt by Sa‘dī مفردات
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folios 413v - 414r: Double-page miniature of a royal hunt with a splendid illuminated border and margins. On 413v the prince, evidently intended for Shāh 'Abbās, is seated under a tree inspecting the bag. He is surrounded by attendantswith hawks and hunting cheetahs. On 4...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1034
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 923, ff 71v-95r
Title:: Maqalah-’i avvalī az Kitāb-i Uqlīdas مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس Euclid أقليدس
Scope & Content:: A Persian version of Book One of the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; كتاب أقليدس في الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC). The diagrams are collected on three fold outs (ff. 74r, 89r and 95r). Begins (f. 71v, lines 1-2: مقالهٔ اولى از كتاب اقليدس چهل وهفت شكل اس...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 1198
Extent:: ff. 71v-95r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1039, ff 2v-14v
Title:: Anonymous treatise on mathematics
Scope & Content:: Anonymous and untitled treatise on mathematics containing numerous diagrams. The copy was completed at Ajmer (أجمير) on Tuesday 10 Rabī‘ I 1041/7 October 1631 by Muḥammad Amīn ibn Mirzā Muḥammad Faḍl Allāh Kāshānī (محمد أمين بن مرزا محمد فضل الله كاشاني; see colophon, f. 14v, lines 15-21 and se...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Rabī‘ I 1041
Extent:: Ff. 2v-14v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1148, ff 68v-135v
Title:: زيج ألغبيك Zīj-i Ulugh Beg ألغ بيك Ulugh Beg
Scope & Content:: The Zīj, or tables of astronomical calculations, produced by Ulugh Beg (1394-1449). This copy lacks the introduction and explanatory material and contains only the tables themselves. Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: ff 68v-135v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1215/2
Title:: Sharḥ risālat al-ṭayr [li-Ibn Sīnā] (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Sāwajī, ʿUmar ibn Sahlān Subject: Islamic philosophy
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1283/1
Title:: Farhang (fārisī) al-Rashīdī (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: ʻAbd al-Rashīd ibn ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Tattavī, active 1653 VIAF ID: 27417654 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1156
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1298/1
Title:: Qaṣīdah al-Burdah (al-kawākib al-durrīyah fī madḥ khayr al-barīyah) (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296? VIAF ID: 90042754 Subject: Arabic poetry
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1298/2
Title:: Tarjamat al-qaṣīdah al-Sharīfīyah [al-Burdah] (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Subject: Arabic poetry
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1333/1
Title:: Sharḥ qaṣīdat bānat suʿād (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Badakhshī al-Rustāqī, Muḥammad Naʿīm Subject: Arabic poetry
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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