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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v
Title:: Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf سمرقندي، محمد بن أشرف
Scope & Content:: Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (شمس الدين محمد بن أشرف الحسيني السمرقندي, d. 1302; see f. 118v, line 7). The translation was made by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1605-1610
Extent:: Ff. 117v-133v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23571
Title:: Kanz al-lughah (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Maʻrūf, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq, active 15th century VIAF ID: 52106944 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1059
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23572
Title:: Kanz al-lughah (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Ibn Maʻrūf, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq, active 15th century VIAF ID: 52106944 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1111
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23586
Title:: [History of Sultans Bayezit II and Selim I]
Scope & Content:: A history of the reigns of Bayezit II and Selim I, without preface, title or author's name. The rubrics of the text are written in Persian throughout in sulusi hand. The contents of the work are as follows: ff 2v-87v : Reign of Bayezit II from his accession on 21 Rebiülevvel 886 AH (20 May 1...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 960
Extent:: 1 text, 190 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413
Title:: Eight Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:: A collection of works mostly by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana (d. 1847) of Bombay who was the chief priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis, composed for Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) of the Madras Army who from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Bombay. Mostly copied by the author whose full name is given he...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+94+vi (ff. 19-21; 26-30; 46-48, 58-60; 75-76 blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 1v-18v
Title:: Qiṣṣah-ʼi Sanjān
Scope & Content:: The traditional story of the settlement of the Parsis in India composed by Bahman ibn Kayqubād ibn Hurmuzyār Sanjānī at Nausari in AD 1600. John Malcolm’s signed note (f.18v): "An abstract of this poem has been made."
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-18v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 22r-25v
Title:: Fragment of a vocabulary of Avestan and Pazand words explained in Persian
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a vocabulary of Avestan and Pazand words explained in Persian. These correspond to the initial portion of the fourth section of the appendix to the Farhang-i Jahangīrī. Malcolm’s unsigned note (f. 22r): "Translated". Incomplete at end.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 22r-25v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 31v-45v
Title:: Farhang-i Shāhnāmah فرهنگ شاهنامه
Scope & Content:: Glossary of Persian, Pahlavi and Pazand words occurring in Firdawsi's Shāhnāmah compiled in 1179 yazdagirdi (1809) in Bombay by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana from various dictionaries especially for Major Malcolm who, according to the author, was very fond of reading the Shāhnāmah. Completed o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 31v-45v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 49v-57r
Title:: Risālah-ʼi Nūshīrvān رسالهٔ نوشیروان
Scope & Content:: An account of the Sasanian ruler Khusraw I Anushirvan (r. 531-579) composed by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana in 1179 yazdagirdi (1809) at the request of Mr Major Malcolm Sahib who is described as generous to the poor, equal to kings, whose command extends from the land of Rum to India. Complet...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 49v-57r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 61r-68v
Title:: Hikāyat-i raftan-i Hārūn al-Rashīd barāyi ziyārāt-i dakhma-ʼi Nūshīrvān حکایت رفتن هارون الرشید برای زیارات دخمهٔ نوشیروان دادگر
Scope & Content:: On the visit of Harun al-Rashid to the tomb of Anurshirvan the just. Malcolm’s unsigned note (f. 61r): "Translated."
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 61r-68v

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