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91. IO Islamic 843, ff 411r-413r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 843, ff 411r-413r
Title:
Mufradāt by Sa‘dī مفردات
Scope & Content:
Decorations: Miniature: Folios 413v - 414r: Double-page miniature of a royal hunt with a splendid illuminated border and margins. On 413v the prince, evidently intended for Shāh 'Abbās, is seated under a tree inspecting the bag. He is surrounded by attendantswith hawks and hunting cheetahs. On 4...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1034
Extent:
1 text

92. IO Islamic 1026

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1026
Title:
Tarjūmah-' al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fārisī ترجومۀ المسالک و الممالک
Scope & Content:
Persian adaptation of al-Istakhrī's al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik Decorations: Map: Folio 3v: 'The Western Region', i.e.The Straits of Gibraltar, southernSpain(right) andNorth Africa(left). The sea is blue: town are circles of various colours and mountains are roughly triangular. Dimensions [written]...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
95 folios

93. IO Islamic 3043

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3043
Title:
Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:
Zoroastrian text
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
143 folios

94. IO Islamic 3171

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3171
Title:
Nān va namak
Scope & Content:
Nān va namak 'Bread and salt', a cookery-book, originally containing ten chapters, on the kitchen recipes as used in the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's court. Text incomplete with leaves missing after f. 63v, in the middle of section 9. Title taken from note in English on f. 1r: "Kookery / KOOKI...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
63 folios

95. IO Islamic 3214

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3214
Title:
Sindbādnāmah
Scope & Content:
An anonymous version of the adventures of Sindbad in Persian verse, thought to have been originally composed in Sanskrit and subsequently translated into many languages. This copy is believed to have been executed in Golconda, India, around the year 1575. It is written in nastaʻliq script and co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
166 folios

96. IO Islamic 3442

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3442
Title:
Shāhanshāhanāmah by Ṣabā, Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, d. 1822 or 3 شاهنشاهنامه
Scope & Content:
Shāhinshāhnāmah Decorations: Miniature: Folio 28r: Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh''s defeat of Ṣādiq Khān Shiqāqī. Dimensions unknown: 21x17cm. Miniature: Folio 32r: Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh seated on the Peacock Throne, two princess to his left, ministers on his right and before him presenting bags of money on trays. D...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1st of Rajab, 1225
Extent:
451folios

97. IO Islamic 3540

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3540
Title:
Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī شاهنامه
Scope & Content:
Persian epic poetry Decorations: Miniature: Folios 1v - 2r: Double-page miniature within a gorgeous illuminated border, of Sulaymān and Queen of Sheba, a large and crowded composition; the execution is meticulous, but the drawing of the faces a trifle weak. Each half (miniature only) Dimensions...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
569 folios

98. IO Islamic 3558

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3558
Title:
Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār, Dīvān-i Khāqān
Scope & Content:
Magnificent copy of the poems of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār, Shah of Iran (r. 1797-1834), who wrote poetry under the name Khāqān. Original Qajar binding with portraits of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
ff. ii+142+ii

99. IO Islamic 4811

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4811
Title:
Kabūtar nāmah by Sayyid Muḥammad Mūsavī Vālih
Scope & Content:
A work on pigeons arranged here as two separate works, both titled Kabūtar nāmah, by Sayyid Muḥammad Mūsavī Vālih who was born in Khurasan and migrated to Hayderabad and then Arcot where he died in 1184/1770. According to the author’s statement (f.14v), the work was written in elegant ‘kalām’ fo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1788
Extent:

22 folios

100. MSS Avestan 2

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 2
Title:
Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Vīdevdād sādah by Mobed Rustam Bahram Darab Sorab Manak Peshotan Sanjana descended from Naryosang Dhaval, dated at Surat in the year 1129 of the Yazdagird era (1759 AD). The colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati (f. 348r onwards) also mention that owner was Mobed-born Mobed Na...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
1759
Extent:

349+iii folios. Ff. 346 and 347 are misplaced in the binding and should follow f. 349. Ff. 346v-347v blank.