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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 69v-74v
Title:: Poem on the assembly of King Anushirvan
Scope & Content:: Part of a work in Persian verse on the assembly held by Anushirvan, his questions to Yunan, and Yunan’s replies. Commissioned by John Malcolm who is described as above and additionally as "in whose time the wolf and the lamb drink water and dwell together." Completed in Bombay on 12 Zi ‘l-Qaʻd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 69v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 77v-84r
Title:: On the names of the Zoroastrian days, months and festivals
Scope & Content:: A work on the Zoroastrian day and month names and on the festivals of Noruz, Mihragan and Tirgan, compiled for Major Malcolm from Pahlavi and Pazand sources by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana. Annotations by Malcolm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 77v-84r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25423
Title:: Divan-i Baki - ديوان باقى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Divan of Baki, the greatest lyric poet of the Ottoman Empire, written during his lifetime. This copy is more complete than the one found at Add MS 7922. The Divan begins with 27 kaside arranged according to the individuals praised: (I-IV) f 2v : In praise of Sultan S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1004
Extent:: 1 text, 109 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25900
Title:: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:: The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing 19 whole-page miniatures, one (f. 41r) contemporary; 14 in the Herat later-Timurid style; and four (ff 234v, 245v, 250v and 271v) in the Tabriz/Safavid style of c. 1535-40. Three paintings ( ff. 121v, 161r ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1442-1443
Extent:: 319 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319
Title:: [Five texts in Persian, English, Kurdish (Laki and Ardalani) and Chagatai]
Scope & Content:: A codex of three texts compiled separately: ff. 1v-4r : Laki Kurdish-Persian glossary ff. 5v-7r : Ardalani Kurdish-Persian glossary ff. 9r-10r : Kurdish-English glossary ff. 11v-16r : Chagatai-Persian glossary of unusual terms in the Vaqiat-i Baburi ff. 18v-30v : Jām-i Jahānnamāī in Persian.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai, English, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century - 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 30

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319, ff. 1v-4r
Title:: [Persian-Laki Kurdish Glossary]
Scope & Content:: A glossary of common terms in Laki Kurdish with their equivalents in Persian. It appears from a short preamble, dated at Bushehr on 12 April 1811, that this glossary was compiled by Muhammad Husain Khan for Sr. John Malcolm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 1 item, ff. 4

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319, ff. 5v-7r
Title:: [Persian-Ardalani Kurdish Glossary]
Scope & Content:: A glossary of common terms in Ardalani Kurdish with their equivalents in Persian. It appears from a short preamble, dated at Bushehr on 12 April 1811, that this glossary was compiled by Muhammad Husain Khan for Sr. John Malcolm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:: 1811
Extent:: 1 item, ff. 3

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319, ff. 11v-16r
Title:: [Chagatai-Persian Glossary of Unusual Terms in the Vaqiat-i Baburi]
Scope & Content:: A Glossary of Chagatai and other uncommon words in the Memoirs of Babur, giving the words in the order in which they occur in the text along with their Persian equivalents. The Chagatai words have been underlined in pencil, with occasional references to their appearance in an unknown copy of th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item, ff. 6

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26319, ff. 18v-30v
Title:: Jām-i Jahānnamāī / جام جهان نمای
Scope & Content:: A metaphysical tract on the various degrees of existence or self-consciousness (مراتب وجود) with two circular diagrams. This author of this text is unknown. The copy is dated Rajab 1141 (1729 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1141
Extent:: 1 item, ff. 13

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26530
Title:: 1 copy of Ghazal az Muḥammad Salīm ba-takhlluṣ-i Miskīn by Miskīn, Muḥammad Salīm
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1810-1820
Extent:: 50 ff

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