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111. 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

112. 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

113. 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

114. 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

115. 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

116. 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

117. 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

118. 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

119. 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

120. 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