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121. Or 2780, ff 188v-243v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 188v-243v
Title:
Kūshnāmah
Scope & Content:
The author is the same than that of the Bahmannāmah in this manuscript Decorations: Miniature: Folio 202v: Ṭayhūr riding in procession through the streets of Hamdān (?Samdān in the Yemen). Miniature: Folio 213v: A warrior on Mt. Damavand.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

122. Or 2839

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2839
Title:
Nawʻī Khabūshānī, Sūz va Gudāz
Scope & Content:
Sūz va Gudāz ‘Burning and melting’, a poem by Muḥammad Riz̤ā Nawʻī Khabūshānī (d. 1609 or 1610‏), commissioned for the Mughal Prince Danyāl (1581-1614). Contains three miniatures, Mughal dating from the 17th century.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
early 17th century
Extent:
24 folios

123. Or 2933

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2933
Title:
Khusraw u Shīrīn by Niẓāmī خسرو و شیرین
Scope & Content:
An abridgement of Niẓāmī Decorations: Miniature: Folio 5v: Hurmuzd enthroned. Miniature: Folio 6r: Birth of Khusraw Parvīz. Miniature: Folio 6v: Khusraw being taught by Buzurjumīd. Miniature: Folio 7r: Khusraw hunting blackbuck. Miniature: Folio 7v: Khusraw listening to Bārbad playing the lute....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1139
Extent:
99 folios

124. Or 3714

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 3714
Title:
Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān, Vāqiʻāt-i Bāburī
Scope & Content:
The Memoirs of the Mughal Emperor Babur (r.1526-30), originally written in Chaghatai Turkish and translated into Persian at his grandson Akbar’s request by Mīrzā ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān in 1589. This imperial copy, containing 143 illustrations mostly by attributed artists, was completed c.1590-93. De...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1590-1593
Extent:
528 folios in 4 volumes

125. Or 4110

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4110
Title:
An anonymous anthology of Persian poets (inluding Indian poets) assembled in the reign of the Sharqi Sultan Mubarak Shah of Jaunpur (1399-1402)
Scope & Content:
Anthology of Persian poetry
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
445 folios

126. Or 4615

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4615
Title:
Dārābnāmah by Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan داراب نامه
Scope & Content:
Imperial copy of Dārābnāmah Decorations: Miniature: Folio 1v: Zāl with Rustam and his other two sons.Miniature: Folio 2r: (above). Rustam standing at the edge of the pit of spears shooting Shaghād. (below). Rūdābah watching as Zāl sends his army under Farāmurz against Bahman at Kabul. Miniature...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
129 folios

127. Or 4732

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4732
Title:
Shahzadah ve-tsufi by Elisha ben Samuel
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1700-1899
Extent:
73 folios

128. Or 4743

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4743
Title:
Daniyal nameh by Bukhārāʼī Khvājah Bahāʼuddīn Muḥammad Naqshband
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Persian
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
65 folios

129. Or 5302

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5302
Title:
Saʻdī, Gulistān
Scope & Content:
Saʻdī’s Gulistān copied in 975 (1567/68) and ascribed in the colophon to the famous calligrapher Mīr ʻAlī Ḥusaynī in Bukhara (Uzbekistan). Includes six Bukhara-style paintings which were commissioned apparently at Akbar's request (see dedicational inscriptions on ff. 30r and 91r). Four of these a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1567
Extent:
128 folios

130. Or 5637

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5637
Title:
Jahānārā Begam, Muʼnis al-arvāḥ
Scope & Content:
An autograph copy by Princess Jahānārā (1641-81), daughter of Shāh Jahān, of her biography, composed in 1049/1640, of Muʻīn al-Dīn Chishtī with notices of some of his disciples.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
123 folios