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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6613, ff 27v-90r
Title:: Khusraw u Shīrīn by Niẓāmī خسرو و شیرین
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folio 34r: The elders pleading on behalf of Khusraw to Hurmuzd. Miniature: Folio 36v: Shāpūr watching a boy taking the portrait of Khusraw down from the tree for Shīrīn to look at. Miniature: Folio 40r: Khusraw and Shīrīn together in bed. Miniature: Folio 42r: Khusraw wat...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Rabī' II 1076
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6613, ff 90v-138r
Title:: Laylā ū Majnūn by Niẓāmī لیلی و مجنون
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folio 92v: The Prophet on Burāq ascending the heavens preceded by Jibrā'īl who is holding out a flower towards a lion on a cloud. An angel (Isrāfīl?) blowing a seven-headed trumpet. Miniature: Folio 100r: Laylā and Majnūn at school. Miniature: Folio 103v: Majnūn taken to ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Rabī' II 1076
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6613, ff 138v-196r
Title:: Haft Paykar by Niẓāmī هفت پیکر
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folio 148r: Bahrām Gūr killing the dragon. Miniature: Folio 155r: Fitnah carrying the ox on her shoulders up steps to Bahrām Gūr. Miniature: Folio 159v: Bahrām Gūr with the Indian Princess in the Black Pavilion. Miniature: Folio 165v: Bahrām Gūr with the Moorish Princess ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Rabī' II 1076
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6613, ff 196v-264r
Title:: Iskandarnāmah by Niẓāmī اسکندرنامه
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folio 208r: Iskandar celebrating his victory over the Zangis (Habashis). Miniature: Folio 219v: Iskandar comforting the dying Dārā. Miniature: Folio 232r: Iskandar entertained by Nūshābah. Miniature: Folio 244r: The Khāqān of Chīn brought bound before Iskandar. Miniature:...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Rabī' II 1076
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6613, ff 264v-300r
Title:: Khiradnāmah by Niẓāmī خردنامه
Scope & Content:: Decorations: Miniature: Folio 274r: Hurmus hypnotising the sages who had gathered to defeat him in debate. (Inscription eulogising the patron of the MS., Abu'l-Ḥasan Mīrzā and also stating that the miniature was completed by Ṭālib in 1077 [=1666-1667]).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Rabī' II 1076
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6644
Title:: Muntakhab al-lughāt shāhjahānī (jāmiʿ al-lughāt) (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: ʻAbd al-Rashīd ibn ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Tattavī, active 1653 VIAF ID: 27417654 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6646
Title:: [Turkic Vocabulary]
Scope & Content:: A vocabulary of Turkic words explained in Persian along with a grammatical sketch in the introduction, originally authored by Fazlullah Khan. The author describes himself as a cousin of Seyf Khan, an Emir of the reign of Aurangzeb, and a descendant of Chaku, an Emir of Timur. He compiled this wo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 text, 52 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6940
Title:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
Scope & Content:: The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+64+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6998
Title:: Ṣad dar صد در attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه
Scope & Content:: The Ṣad dar (صد در) attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh (ایرانشاه ابن ملکشاه). A popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh. Copied by the Rev. John Haddon Hindley (1765-1...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+236+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7004
Title:: Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:: This volume contains two copies of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Mente...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1804
Extent:: 2 texts, 107 ff

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