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Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3248
Title:: [Extract from the Hümayun-name]
Scope & Content:: An extract from the Hümayun-name, the fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. The current extract is the story of the hermit, the fox, the procurer and the wives of the shoemaker and the barber (the eighth story of Bab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 text, 13 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3259
Title:: Trading permit from the king of Mrauk U in Arakan
Scope & Content:: Trading permit in Persian issued by King Chandrawizaya (r. 1710-1731) of the kingdom of Mrauk U in Arakan in Myanmar (Burma), to the Armenian merchant Khwajeh Georgin in Chennaipattana (Madras), granting permission to trade in elephants and ivory, dated in the Burmese era 14 Sha‘bān sanat 1090 Ma...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1728
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3583
Title:: Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a tabular version of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). The formatting of the text and addition of Arabic equivalents was completed by Al-Ḥājj Mūsá al-Shar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1704
Extent:: 1 text, 48 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4093
Title:: Farman of Shah Tahmasp to ʿAli Quli Khan Shamlu, copy
Scope & Content:: Copy of a Farman of the Safavid ruler of Iran, Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1526) to ʿAlī Qulī Khān Shāmlū, ordering him to receive the Mughal Emperor Humayun on his entering Persian territory with instructions for his entertainment and onwarad passage to the Safavid court at Qazvin in AH 950 (1543/44).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 f.

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4094
Title:: List of caravanserais of Isfahan
Scope & Content:: A scroll measuring 9 feet by 5 1/2 ins. listing the caravanserais of Isfahan with an account of the various classes of merchants who use them. Undated but probably 18th century.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4095
Title:: Dar dānistan-i ʿimārat va ṭarḥ-i ān
Scope & Content:: A paper scroll measuring 16 by 5 1/2 inches and explaining architectural technical terms related to various kinds of ornamental buildings.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 folio

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