Vesiletü'l-Makasıt ila ıhsan el-merasıt - وسيلة ال مقاصد الى احسن المراصد
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A Persian vocabulary for Turkic-speakers arranged in three abwab, subdivided into fusul, and coiled in 903 AH (1497-98 CE) by Hatip Rüstem el-Mevlevi. The Persian words are fully vocalized, with their Ottoman Turkish equivalents in red. This manuscript was copied in 1163 AH (1749-50 CE) and co...
Saʻdī’s Gulistān copied in 975 (1567/68) and ascribed in the colophon to the famous calligrapher Mīr ʻAlī Ḥusaynī in Bukhara (Uzbekistan). Includes six Bukhara-style paintings which were commissioned apparently at Akbar's request (see dedicational inscriptions on ff. 30r and 91r). Four of these a...