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111. Or 166

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 166
Title:
Gulbadan Begam, Aḥvāl-i Humāyūn Pādshāh
Scope & Content:
Autobiographical account of the reigns of the Mughal Emperor Bābur and his son Humāyūn by Bābur’s daughter Gulbadan Begam (1523-1603). Although this copy probably dates from the early 17th century, it is the only known copy to have survived. The manuscript is incomplete, ending abruptly with the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
83 folios

112. Or 343

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 343
Title:
Muḥyī Lārī, Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn
Scope & Content:
A poetical description of the holy shrines of Mecca and Medina and the rites of pilgrimage by Muḥyī Lārī (d.1526 or 1527). Includes 17 miniatures, probably Persian, dating from the 17th century. Decorated heading
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
41 folios

113. Or 404

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 404
Title:
Majmu''a - مجموعه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of five different works, most of them relating to linguistics and language usage: ff 6v-27v : Favāᵓid-i Turkī, grammar of Turkic dialects explained in Persian and composed by Ashur Beg. The author enumerates the following dialects: Turani, Uzbeki, Irani, Qizil...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
1253
Extent:
Codex, 110 ff

114. Or 1362

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1362
Title:
Nafaḥāt al-Uns by Jāmī, 1414-1492 نفحات الانس
Scope & Content:
Mughal-era Persian manuscript copied for Akbar at Agra by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ʻAnbarīn Qalam Akbarshāhī. Decorations: Miniature: Folio 29r: Fish rising to the surface of the stream as Ibrāhīm Sa''d is watched by Abū al-Ḥāris̲ al-Ūlāsī. Miniature: Folio 39v: Abū ''Abdullāh Mahdī Bāvardī made an appre...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Regnal year 49 (1604/5)
Extent:
401 folios

115. Or 1374

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1374
Title:
Dīvān-i Navā’ī / ديوان نوائي
Scope & Content:
The Divan of Nava'i without preface. The first five ghazals, out of twenty-two rhyming in alif, are the same as in Or. 401 and are in the same order. The rest of the volume shows a considerable degree of agreement with the same copy, from which it chiefly differs by frequent omissions. Content...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai, English, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Codex, ff. 189

116. Or 2265

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2265
Title:
Shah Tahmasp's 'Khamsah' of Niẓāmī
Scope & Content:
The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3). Originally copied for the Safavid ruler Shāh Tahmāsp (ruled 1524-76) between 1539 and 1543, it was augmented by the addition of 14 full page illustrations by some of the most famous court artists of the mid-16th cent...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1539-1543
Extent:
396 folios

117. Or 2780

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780
Title:
A collection of epic poems including the Garshāsbnāmah by Asadī Ṭūsī.and 3 other poems
Scope & Content:
One volume
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
243 folios

118. Or 2780, ff 1v-40v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 1v-40v
Title:
Garshāsbnāmah by Asadī Ṭūsī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 11th cent.
Scope & Content:
The history of Garshāsp, the hero of Sistan (Iran and Afghanistan), written in imitations of the Shāhnāmah ( شاهنامه ) of Firdawsī Decorations: Miniature: Folio 14v: Garshāsp visiting the Brahmans on the mountain of Sarandib. Miniature: Folio 18r: Garshāsp looking at demons on the Island of Kad...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

119. Or 2780, ff 41v-132v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 41v-132v
Title:
Shāhanshāhnāmah by Aḥmad Tabrīzī
Scope & Content:
A rhymed history of Chinggis Khān, 1162-1227 and his successors down to 738 The copy is dated 14th Rajab 800 Decorations: Miniature: Folio 44v: The Mongols leaving the valley of Irgene Kun where they had taken refuge for 400 years from the Tatars. Miniature: Folio 49v: Chinggis Khān, 1162-1227...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

120. Or 2780, ff 134v-187v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 134v-187v
Title:
Bahmannāmah
Scope & Content:
The poem is ascribed in the endorsement to Ḥakīm Āz̲arī, but this is apparently a confusion with a later work of the same title. This work is also attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Abī al-Khayr. A poem treating the wars of Bahman with the heroes of Sīstān, and especially with Āz̲arbarzīn, son of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text