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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5490
Title:: [Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains texts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian. The following 17 texts are in Ottoman Turkish, unless otherwise noted: (I) ff 4r-16v : Necatu'l-garik, a religious poem by Hüdai under the heading 'Haza risale fi'l-cem' ve'l-tefrik el-müsemma bi-Necatu'l-garik.' The author's n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 21 texts, 374 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5494
Title:: Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:: This volume contains 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 Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1062
Extent:: 1 text, 49 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 34
Title:: al-Ṣurāḥ min al-ṣiḥāḥ (includes text in persian)
Scope & Content:: Author: Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century VIAF ID: 73771977 Subject: Arabic philology
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Persian
Date Range:: 1093
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 46
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:: 1103
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 132
Title:: Dīvān-i Muʻizzī by Muʻizzī, Amīr ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, b. 1048 or 9 ديوان معزى and 5 other texts
Scope & Content:: Collection of poetical Divans including poems by Muʻizzī, As̲īr al-Dīn Ākhsīkatī, Adīb Sābir, Qamar, Shams Ṭabasī and Nāṣir Khusraw Decorations: Miniature: Folio 1v: Sulṭān Sanjar, attended by the poet Mu'izzi and four courtiers of Mongol appearance, viewing the moon over a rocky hi...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 713-714
Extent:: 112 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 132, ff 1r-18v
Title:: Dīvān-i Muʻizzī by Muʻizzī, Amīr ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, b. 1048 or 9 ديوان معزى
Scope & Content:: Contains only a select number of Muʻizzī's poems, chiefly qaṣīdas, with a few qiṭʻas and rubāʻīs at the end A short biographical notice at the top of folio 1v Anthology of dīvāns dating from between Feb/Mar 1314 and Feb 1315 containing 53 miniatures in a simplified Mongol style. The manuscri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 713-714
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 132, ff 19r-47v
Title:: Dīvān-i As̲īr al-Dīn Ākhsīkatī by As̲īr al-Dīn Ākhsīkatī ديوان اثير الدين آخسيكتى
Scope & Content:: Lyrical poems by As̲īr al-Dīn of Ākhsīkat (Ahsiket) Decorations: Miniature: Folio 19v: A discussion between six turbaned poets, one of whom holds an open book. The white paint of the turbans has oxidized in places. Dimensions [written]: 9x17.5cm. Miniature: Folio 20v: Same subject and figur...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 713-714
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 132, ff 48r-75r
Title:: Divān-i Adīb Sābir by Tirmiẕī, Adīb Ṣābir 1078-1147 ديوان اديب صابر
Scope & Content:: Lyrical poems of Adīb Sābir, who was the the panegyrist of Sanjar, Sultan of the Seljuks, 1084 or 6-1157 This diwan contains qaṣīdas. qiṭʻas, and rubāʻīs This work is dated end of Muḥarram, 714 Decorations: Miniature: Folio 49r: Same subject and figures as folio 3v. Dimensions [written]: 8...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 713-714
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 132, ff 76r-87v
Title:: Dīvān-i Qamar by Qamar Isfahānī, Niẓām al-Dīn Maḥmud, d. ca. 1210 ديوان قمر
Scope & Content:: Lyrical poems by Qamar, who was a panegyrist of the governors and qāz̤īs of Iṣfahān (Iran) Decorations: Miniature: Folio 76v: Discussion between six poets in turbans, one holding an open book, and a young man in a Mongol hat. Dimensions [written]: 7.5x26cm. Miniature: Folio 78r: Same subjec...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 713-714
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 132, ff 88r-96v
Title:: Divān-i Shams Ṭabasī by Qāz̤ī Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Ṭabasī ديوان شمس طبسى
Scope & Content:: Lyrical poems, chiefly qaṣīdas, by Shams Ṭabasī Decorations: Miniature: Folio 88v: Turbaned poet, perhaps intended for Qāz̤ī Shams al-Dīn Ṭabasī, presenting a scroll to a turbaned prince attended by five courtiers in Mongol hats. Long hair has been added to the two on the right. Dimensio...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 713-714
Extent:: 1 text

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