Selections from the Dīvān of ʻAbd Allāh Ṭūsī, a native of Khurasan, court poet of Sulṭān Abu'l-Qāsim Bābur (ruled 1449–1457). Miniature: f. 85v: The old man arguing with a youth.
WAKI'ATI Babari, the Autobiography of the Sultan Babar, of Hindustan; written about A.H. 1044 = A.D. 1634, and illustrated with miniatures. In Persian. Octavo. [16,623.]
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Babar, Sultan of Hindostan: Autobiography: in Persian.
A collection of Oriental Manuscripts, from No. 16,637 to No. 16,880 inclusive, presented by the sons of Major William Yule, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, in Bengal
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. A fuller description of them will be found in the General Catalogues of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts.
LIVES Of the celebrated men of the xth century of the Hijrab, intitled Al-Kawákib al-Sá,irah bi-manákib a'yán al-miyah al-'áshirah, by Najm al-din Muhammad al-Ghazzi al-'Amiri;'Ikd al-Janáhir naldurar fi akhbár al-karn al-hádi 'ashar, or biographical notices of the illustrious men who died in th...
NOTICES of the celebrated men who died in the xth century of the Hijrah, intitled Al-núr al-sáfir 'an akhbdir al-karn al'áshir, by Muhyi al-Dín 'Abd al-Kádir Ibn al-Shaikh al-'Idarús al-Hindi;-A1- saná al-báhir bi takmíl al-núr al-sáfir, a supplement to the preceding work, by Al-Sayyid Muhammad ...
Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
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Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-...