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...
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...
Farman of Shah Tahmasp to ʿAli Quli Khan Shamlu, copy
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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).
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.