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8961. Or 1362

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1362
Title:
Nafaḥāt al-Uns by Jāmī, 1414-1492 نفحات الانس
Scope & Content:
Mughal-era Persian manuscript copied for Akbar at Agra by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ʻAnbarīn Qalam Akbarshāhī. Decorations: Miniature: Folio 29r: Fish rising to the surface of the stream as Ibrāhīm Sa''d is watched by Abū al-Ḥāris̲ al-Ūlāsī. Miniature: Folio 39v: Abū ''Abdullāh Mahdī Bāvardī made an appre...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Regnal year 49 (1604/5)
Extent:
401 folios

8962. Or 1374

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1374
Title:
Dīvān-i Navā’ī / ديوان نوائي
Scope & Content:
The Divan of Nava'i without preface. The first five ghazals, out of twenty-two rhyming in alif, are the same as in Or. 401 and are in the same order. The rest of the volume shows a considerable degree of agreement with the same copy, from which it chiefly differs by frequent omissions. Content...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai, English, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Codex, ff. 189

8963. Or 1621

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1621
Title:
Tarjumah-ʼi ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt ترجمۀ عجائب المخلوقات Anonymous translator
Scope & Content:
The ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt (عجائب المخلوقات) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد قزوینی) translated from Arabic into Persian at the request of Ibrāhīm ʻĀdil Shāh, ruler of Bijapur in Shaʻbān AH 954 (1547). The text is illustrated with 461 mid-seventeenth-century Deccani paintings and d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th and 19th centuries
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+466+ii

8964. Or 1712

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1712
Title:
[Majmu'a] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
Two Chagatai texts : ff 1v-111v : Haft Akhtar, a grammar of Chagatai explained in Persian with copious poetical quotations by Kasi, son of Birbal, a Kayath of Lucknow. Most of the poetry is from Emir Nava'i, Mevlana Fuzuli and Emir Shahi. The present copy, transcribed from a manuscript in the ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
Mid-19th century
Extent:

Two texts, 148 ff

8965. Or 1912

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1912
Title:
Chagatai Codex
Scope & Content:
A codex containing the following four texts : ff 2v-197v : Qavaid-i Turki, a grammar and vocabulary of an Oghuz dialect spoken primarily in Azerbaijan and Iran, written at Dhaka in 1198 AH for Sayyid Ahmed Ali Khan Bahadur by Muhammad Mehdi Tabrizi. Many of the forms described differ considera...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Mid-19th century
Extent:
Codex, 456 ff

8966. Or 2265

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2265
Title:
Shah Tahmasp's 'Khamsah' of Niẓāmī
Scope & Content:
The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3). Originally copied for the Safavid ruler Shāh Tahmāsp (ruled 1524-76) between 1539 and 1543, it was augmented by the addition of 14 full page illustrations by some of the most famous court artists of the mid-16th cent...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1539-1543
Extent:
396 folios

8967. Or 2361

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361
Title:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian, copied for Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (شاه قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. Delhi, 1083/1672-3) who by the time of the volume's compilation held the title Dīyānat Khān (ديانتخان). Dīyānat ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1073-1075
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+269+iv

8968. Or 2361, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Risālah dar jamʿ-i maqālāt-i fuquhāʾ dar bāb shanīdan-i alḥān رساله در جمع مقالات فقهاء در باب شنيدن الحان Riz̤avī, Muḥammad ibn Jalāl رضوى، محمد ابن جلال
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on the lawfulness of music, written by Muḥammad ibn Jalāl Riz̤avī (محمد بن جلال رضوى), in 1028/1618-19 (f. 2v, line 11). The text, also entitled Risālah-yi dar aqwāl-i fuqahāʼ dar samāʻ-i alḥān (رساله در اقوال فقهاء در سماع الحان, f. 2r), discusses the opinions of the great...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
ca 1073
Extent:

Ff. 2r-15r

8969. Or 2361, ff 15r-17v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 15r-17v
Title:
Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān رساله مسيحي در كيفيت وحقيقت سماع واباحتان Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ابن عبد الرحمن، عبد الجليل
Scope & Content:
A tract in Persian on the lawfulness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī (حكيم سدرا بن حكيم فخر الدين شيرازي, d. 1061/1650-51), who came to India in c. 1603 and was awarded the title Mas...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 1073
Extent:

Ff. 15r-17v

8970. Or 2361, ff 157r-164r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 157r-164r
Title:
Mūsīqī-yi ḥikmat-i ʿAlāʾī موسيقي حكمت علائي Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Section on music from the Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
Jumādá II 1073
Extent:

Ff. 157r-164r

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