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1. Add MS 5242

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Title:
Polyglot Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, French, Geez, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
20 folios

2. Add MS 5600

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Title:
Shāhnāmah, by Firdawsī
Scope & Content:
Firdawsī’s epic the Shāhnāmah ‘Book of kings’ with the older preface. Refurbished ca 1616 (f..274r) in the studio of ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān Khānān. Contains 90 overpainted mniatures by attributed Mughal artists. Illustrations: f.12v: Hushang and Gayumars fighting the Black Div to avenge the death o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
late 15th century
Extent:

vi, 586,vi folios with 90 interleaves

3. Add MS 6613

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Title:
Makhzan al-Asrār by Niẓāmī مخزن الاسرار and 5 other texts
Scope & Content:
Khamsah of Niẓāmī 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 S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Rabī' II 1076
Extent:
300 folios

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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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

10. Add MS 7628

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Title:
Jāmi‘ al-Tavārīkh by Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, 1247?-1318 جامع التواریخ
Scope & Content:
Jāmi‘ al-Tavārīkh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
837
Extent:
728 folios