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8971. Or 2361, ff 240v-246r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 240v-246r
Title:
Kashf al-awtār كشف الأوتار Bukhārī, Qāsim ibn Dūst ʻAlī بخاري، قاسم ابن دوست علي
Scope & Content:
A Persian treatise on the fretting of musical instruments, by Qāsim ibn Dūst ʿAlī Bukhārī (قاسم ابن دوست علي بخارى). The present copy was completed by the scribe Muḥammad Amīn in Delhi on 19 Rabīʿ II 1075/9 October 1664 ( see colophon, f. 246r, lines 7-9). A diagram in red ink labelled in Per...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
19 Rabīʿ II 1075
Extent:

Ff. 240v-246r

8972. Or 2361, ff 247r-269v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 247r-269v
Title:
Risālah-'i kanz al-tuḥaf dar mūsīqī رساله كنز التحف در موسيقي
Scope & Content:
A Persian treatise on music, the composition of which was finished on 22 Jumādá I of either 756/4 June 1355, or 764/9 March 1363 depending on the reading of a chronogram on f. 269v, line 17, one letter of which lacks any diacritical points (see discussion of this chronogram in MS IO Islamic 2067...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
12 Rajab 1075
Extent:

Ff. 247r-269v

8973. Or 2780

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780
Title:
A collection of epic poems including the Garshāsbnāmah by Asadī Ṭūsī.and 3 other poems
Scope & Content:
One volume
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
243 folios

8974. Or 2780, ff 1v-40v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 1v-40v
Title:
Garshāsbnāmah by Asadī Ṭūsī, Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 11th cent.
Scope & Content:
The history of Garshāsp, the hero of Sistan (Iran and Afghanistan), written in imitations of the Shāhnāmah ( شاهنامه ) of Firdawsī Decorations: Miniature: Folio 14v: Garshāsp visiting the Brahmans on the mountain of Sarandib. Miniature: Folio 18r: Garshāsp looking at demons on the Island of Kad...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

8975. Or 2780, ff 41v-132v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 41v-132v
Title:
Shāhanshāhnāmah by Aḥmad Tabrīzī
Scope & Content:
A rhymed history of Chinggis Khān, 1162-1227 and his successors down to 738 The copy is dated 14th Rajab 800 Decorations: Miniature: Folio 44v: The Mongols leaving the valley of Irgene Kun where they had taken refuge for 400 years from the Tatars. Miniature: Folio 49v: Chinggis Khān, 1162-1227...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

8976. Or 2780, ff 134v-187v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 134v-187v
Title:
Bahmannāmah
Scope & Content:
The poem is ascribed in the endorsement to Ḥakīm Āz̲arī, but this is apparently a confusion with a later work of the same title. This work is also attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Abī al-Khayr. A poem treating the wars of Bahman with the heroes of Sīstān, and especially with Āz̲arbarzīn, son of ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

8977. Or 2780, ff 188v-243v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2780, ff 188v-243v
Title:
Kūshnāmah
Scope & Content:
The author is the same than that of the Bahmannāmah in this manuscript Decorations: Miniature: Folio 202v: Ṭayhūr riding in procession through the streets of Hamdān (?Samdān in the Yemen). Miniature: Folio 213v: A warrior on Mt. Damavand.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Ṣafar 800
Extent:
1 text

8978. Or 2827

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2827
Title:
2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Pushto poetry
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pashto and Persian
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
folios

8979. Or 2839

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2839
Title:
Nawʻī Khabūshānī, Sūz va Gudāz
Scope & Content:
Sūz va Gudāz ‘Burning and melting’, a poem by Muḥammad Riz̤ā Nawʻī Khabūshānī (d. 1609 or 1610‏), commissioned for the Mughal Prince Danyāl (1581-1614). Contains three miniatures, Mughal dating from the 17th century.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
early 17th century
Extent:
24 folios

8980. Or 2872

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2872
Title:
Dīvān-i Amānī - ديوان امانى
Scope & Content:
The collected poems of Amānī, in which the Chaghatay and Persian poems separated. The contents are as follows: ff 1v-89v : Chagatai poems, beginning with a masnavi in praise of God, the end of which is lost. The following contents do not appear to match those of the original volume, owing to t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 245 ff

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