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121. 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

122. 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

123. 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

124. 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

125. 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

126. 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

127. 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

128. 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

129. 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

130. 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