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91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

95. 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

96. 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

97. 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

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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