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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 726
Title:: Tarjumat al-ṣaḥīfah al-kāmilah [li-Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn] (includes text in Persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: al-Thaqafī, al-Mutawakkil ibn Hārūn Translator: al-Qazwīnī, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Bāqir Subject: Islam--Prayers and devotions
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1097
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 824
Title:: Scientific and Philosophical Compendium of Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي)
Scope & Content:: Compendium of short texts, extracts and notes on scientific and philosophical subjects, compiled by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān Ghūjārātī (أحمد بن سليمان غوجاراتي; d. 1681), and completed in Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134/September-October 1722 (see note on f. 5r). The manuscript was later owned by the compiler''s ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: Dhū al-ḥijjah 1134
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+250+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 830
Title:: Two Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:: A volume containing two Zoroastrian works: (1) Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a prose version in Persian of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards (ff. 1v-51r);   (2) Ṣad...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+156

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 830, ff 1v-51r
Title:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه
Scope & Content:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a prose version in Persian of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 830, ff 51v-155r
Title:: Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:: Ṣad dar (صد در) a prose work consisting of 100 compulsory Zoroastrian rules
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 51v-155r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 831
Title:: al-Saḥīfah al-kāmilah li-zayn al-ʿābidīn (zubūr āl Muḥammad wa-injīl ahl al-bayt) (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Subject: Islam--Prayers and devotions
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 843
Title:: Preface by Sa‘dī and 15 other texts
Scope & Content:: Kullīyāt of Sa‘dī کلّیات سعدی Decorations: Miniature: Folios 1v - 2r: Double-page court scene within a splendid illuminated border and decorated margins. On 1v is Shah 'Abbas enthroned with courtiers and musicians; on 2r are courtiers and ladies, together with Turkish, Indian and European ambas...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1034
Extent:: 414 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 843, ff 2v-3v
Title:: Preface by Sa‘dī
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folios 1v - 2r: Double-page court scene within a splendid illuminated border and decorated margins. On 1v is Shah 'Abbas enthroned with courtiers and musicians; on 2r are courtiers and ladies, together with Turkish, Indian and European ambassadors, all on a terrace with a...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1034
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 843, ff 4r-34r
Title:: Rasā’il by Sa‘dī رسائل
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folio 20v: Hanging of Barṣīṣa, a Jewish physician, before the King. Dimensions [written]: 14x11cm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1034
Extent:: 1 text

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