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131. Or 6471

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6471
Title:
Treatise on magic, astrology and the calendar
Scope & Content:
An Armenian manuscript containing: ff.1r-261v A treatise on magic, astrology and the calendar. The individual texts are very varied and feature tables and decorations. Highlights include: ff.40r-45v Full-page pictures of the zodiacal signs ff.48r-95v Tables of five columns, four rows (not i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 item, 263 ff

132. Or 6525

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6525
Title:
Mir’āt al-‘ārifīn by Khvājah Mas’ūd-i Bek, d. 800 / 1397-8 مرعات العرفین
Scope & Content:
A treatise on ethics and Sufism
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
208 folios

133. Or 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6573
Title:
Qur’ān with commentary
Scope & Content:
An eleventh- or twelfth-century Qur’ān, from Iraq or Persia, written on paper in the Qarmatian style of eastern kufic script. The Persian commentary is written in a naskh hand and is possibly slightly later. Qur’ān contains sections (juz’) 16-18 which corresponds to Sūrahs 18.75 - 25.22.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 246

134. Or 6810

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6810
Title:
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:
The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing one double and 20 single miniatures in the Herat later Timurid style. The attributions to various artists beneath the lower margins of the miniatures were added later but the miniatures on ff. 37v, 135v, 19...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1490-1499
Extent:
303 folios

135. Or 6810, ff 3v-29r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6810, ff 3v-29r
Title:
Makhzan al-asrār
Scope & Content:
Illustrations: (5v) The Prophet mounted on Burāq and escorted by angels passing over the Kaʻbah. (16r) Sulṭān Sanjar and the old woman. Ascribed to Mīrak(27v) Hārūn al-Rashīd and the barber. Ascribed to Mīrak and Bihzād
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1490-1499
Extent:
1 text

136. Or 6810, ff 30v-97v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6810, ff 30v-97v
Title:
Khusraw u Shīrīn
Scope & Content:
Illustrations: (37v) The elders pleading before Hurmuzd on behalf of the young Khusraw. Ascribed to Bihzād.(39v) Shīrīn being shown the portrait of Khusraw by one of her handmaidens. Ascribed to Mīrak.(62v) Farhād arriving at Shīrīn’s palace. Inscription: ‘Written for the library of the great Amī...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1490-1499
Extent:
1 text

137. Or 6810, ff 98v-146v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6810, ff 98v-146v
Title:
Laylā u Majnūn
Scope & Content:
Illustrations:(106v) Laylā and Majnūn at school. Ascribed to Mīrak and Bihzād, but to Qāsim ʻAlī in the text panel. Inscription over doorway containing Qur’anic texts.(128v) Majnūn visited by Salīm in the desert. Ascribed to Bihzād.(135v) Mourning the death of Laylā’s husband, Ibn Salām. Ascribed...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1490-1499
Extent:

1 text

138. Or 6810, ff 147v-198v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6810, ff 147v-198v
Title:
Haft paykar
Scope & Content:
Illustrations:(154v) The building of the palace of Khavarnaq for Nuʻmān who was the guarian of the young Bahrām Gūr. Ascribed to Bihzād.(157r) Bahram Gūr kills the dragon. Ascribed to Bihzād. An artist’s name has been erased from the text panel(175r) Bishr feeling for the body of his drowned com...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1490-1499
Extent:
1 text

139. Or 6810, ff 199v-303r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6810, ff 199v-303r
Title:
Iskandarnāmah. Beginning in this copy with the Khiradnāmah (ff 199v-234v)
Scope & Content:
Illustrations:(214r) Iskandar, in the likeness of Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, with the seven sages. Inscription: Year AH 900 (1494/95).(225v) Iskandar on the island near the ‘Lion’s Mouth’ whirlpool beating the wolfskin drum of the bronze talisman in order to still the waters. One of the figures in the boat ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1490-1499
Extent:
1 text

140. Or 7043

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7043
Title:
Luqmān, Salīm Khānnamah
Scope & Content:
A grandiose metrical history of the reign of Sultan Selīm II (r. 1566-74) written in Persian in 988 (1580) by the court poet Sayyid Luqmān. This copy was made for an unnamed person and presented in 1099 (1687/88). Contains eight miniatures (ff. 7v, 14r, 15r, 15v, 16r, 16v, 17r, 25v)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1687-1688
Extent:
31 folios