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141. Or 7573

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7573
Title:
Hāfiẓ, Dīvān
Scope & Content:
The Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ containing eight miniatures and text decorated throughout with birds. Imperfect at end. Part of the manuscript, including the colophon, dated 990/1582-3 and signed by ‘Abd al-Ṣamad Shīrīn-qalam, is preserved at the Chester Beatty Library Dublin (MS Ind 15). The volume was enhan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1582-1583
Extent:
278 folios, 8 miniatures boxed separately

142. Or 8193

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8193
Title:
A collection of Turkic and Persian works
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of poetic works in a Turkic dialect and Persian arranged concurrently. The main text in Uyghur script comprises a number of moral tracts, poems, and religious works, while the Persian sections are poetry by Kamāl Ismāᶜīl. Text from a different work is found on f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chagatai, and Persian
Date Range:
835
Extent:
Codex, ii,182, iii folios

143. Or 9804

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9804
Title:
Mikhlal ha-mishnah by Shelomoh Ababa ben Nuriel
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, and Persian
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
188 folios

144. Or 11846

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11846
Title:
Ḥāfiẓ Saʻd, Dīvān
Scope & Content:
The poetical works of Ḥāfiẓ Saʻd, copied for the library of Pīr Būdāq (d.1466), son of the Jahānshāh Qaraqoyunlu. Carpet page illuminated opening (ff. 1v-2r) with dedicatory inscription to Abu’l-Fatḥ Pīr Būdāq Bahādur Khān. Copyist Shaykh Muḥammad Pīr Būdāqī at Shiraz. Includes a portrait of Pīr ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
End of Safar 864 (Dec. 1459)
Extent:

185 folios

145. Or 12076

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12076
Title:
Razmnāmah, translated into Persian by Naqīb Khān
Scope & Content:
The last five books of the ‘Razmnama’, the Persian translation by Naqib Khan of the ‘Mahabharata’. Twenty-four attributed miniatures. Sub-imperial Mughal. AH1007=AD1598. Illustrations: f.4v. Krishna and the Pandavas being told by the sage Vyasa where to obtain the horse for the sacrifice (‘asva...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1598
Extent:

138 folios

146. Or 12208

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12208
Title:
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:
The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing 38 illustrated folios attributed to the major artists of the imperial Mughal studio. Contains six decorated headings, two signed by Khvājah Jān (ff. 32v, 169r - dated 1004/1595). Copied by ʻAbd al-Rahīm ʻAn...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1593-1595
Extent:
325 folios

147. Or 12857

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12857
Title:
‘Abd al-Karīm al-Qādirī Jawnpūrī, Javāhir al-mūsīqāt-i Muḥammadī
Scope & Content:
A musical treatise by Shaykh ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Shaykh Farīd Anṣārī al-Qādirī al-Jawnpūrī dedicated to Muhammad ‘Adil Shah (r.1626-56), being a refurbishment and expansion in Persian of an earlier (c. 1570) illustrated manuscript, a translation into Dakhini of the Sanskrit musical treatise Saṅgīt...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Urdu
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
214 folios

148. Or 12985

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12985
Title:
Garshāsbnāmah by Asadī Ṭūsī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 11th cent. گرشاسبنامه
Scope & Content:
The Garshāsbnāmah
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
981
Extent:
106 folios

149. Or 12988

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12988
Title:
Abū'l-Faẓl ibn Mubārak, Akbarnāmah
Scope & Content:
Volume 1 of Abū'l-Faẓl's account of the reign of Akbar describing his Timurid ancestry and the history of his grandfather Babur (1483-1530) and father Humayun (1508-56). Since a dated note on f.134v cannot be read with any certainty, a date of 1602-3 is posited on stylistic grounds. The second vo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1602-1603
Extent:
163 folios

150. Or 13506

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13506
Title:
Kitāb-i Kalīlah va Dimnah by ʻIbn al-Muqaffaʻ, d. ca. 760 كتاب كليله و دمنهكليله و دمنه كتاب كليله و دمنهكليله و دمنه
Scope & Content:
Persian translation of the fables of Bidpai Decorations: Miniature: Folio 2v: (forming a double-page miniature with 3r). A king's retinue with cheetahs, horse and hawk (flaked). Miniature: Folio 3r: The king enthroned surrounded by courtiers two of whom stand behind him with crossed spears. Two...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
707
Extent:
209 folios