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131. 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

132. 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

133. Or 13704

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13704
Title:
Fath Nāma by ʿImrani
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Persian
Date Range:
1675-1724
Extent:
335 folios

134. Or 14139

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14139
Title:
Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān
Scope & Content:
Collected poems of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī (d. 792/1389), copied at Herat or Mashhad ca. 1470 by, according to Shah Jahan’s note of 1037/1628 (f. 1r), the famous calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī. The whole work was refurbished and remargined at the Mughal court ca. 1605 with cartouc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1470
Extent:

117 folios

135. Royal MS 16 B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B I
Title:
A volume containing two Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:
Zoroastrian texts
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
330 folios

136. Royal MS 16 B I, ff 1v-174r

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B I, ff 1v-174r
Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah, by Zartusht Bahrām اردا ویراف نامه
Scope & Content:
A poetical version by Zartusht Bahrām Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. This copy has been transcribed in both Persian and Avestan scripts, reflecting a tradi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text

137. Royal MS 16 B I, ff 174v-330

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B I, ff 174v-330
Title:
Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:
100 Zoroastrian rules
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 Text

138. Royal MS 16 B VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B VI
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Khordah Avesta (‘little Avesta’), described as Kitāb zand avastā, a collection of prayers in Avestan, lacking the first folio. A Persian colophon (f. 67r) gives the date as Aneran (30th day), Ardibihisht (2nd month,) 1042 AY (1673), and the scribe’s name as Herbad Hormazyar Faramu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1673
Extent:

Codex. :ff. iii+67+iii

139. Royal MS 16 B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B VIII
Title:
Zarātusht nāmah by Kay Kāʼus ibn Kay Khusraw ibn Dārā زراتشت نامه
Scope & Content:
A life of Zoroaster written in Iran in the 13th century
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
71 folios

140. RSPA 102

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 102
Title:
1 copy of al-Khulāṣah al-Alfiyyah by Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1717
Extent:
ff. iii+97+iii