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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6711
Title:: 1 copy of Risālah-’i kayfiyyat va kammiyat-i arāz̤ī-yi Īrān u Tūrān by Nāṣīr al-Dīn ibn Amīr Ma‘ṣūm
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1827-1828
Extent:: 20 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810
Title:: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:: The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing one double and 20 single miniatures in the Herat later Timurid style. The attributions to various artists beneath the lower margins of the miniatures were added later but the miniatures on ff. 37v, 135v, 19...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 303 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 3v-29r
Title:: Makhzan al-asrār
Scope & Content:: Illustrations: (5v) The Prophet mounted on Burāq and escorted by angels passing over the Kaʻbah. (16r) Sulṭān Sanjar and the old woman. Ascribed to Mīrak(27v) Hārūn al-Rashīd and the barber. Ascribed to Mīrak and Bihzād
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 30v-97v
Title:: Khusraw u Shīrīn
Scope & Content:: Illustrations: (37v) The elders pleading before Hurmuzd on behalf of the young Khusraw. Ascribed to Bihzād.(39v) Shīrīn being shown the portrait of Khusraw by one of her handmaidens. Ascribed to Mīrak.(62v) Farhād arriving at Shīrīn’s palace. Inscription: ‘Written for the library of the great Amī...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 98v-146v
Title:: Laylā u Majnūn
Scope & Content:: Illustrations:(106v) Laylā and Majnūn at school. Ascribed to Mīrak and Bihzād, but to Qāsim ʻAlī in the text panel. Inscription over doorway containing Qur’anic texts.(128v) Majnūn visited by Salīm in the desert. Ascribed to Bihzād.(135v) Mourning the death of Laylā’s husband, Ibn Salām. Ascribed...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 147v-198v
Title:: Haft paykar
Scope & Content:: Illustrations:(154v) The building of the palace of Khavarnaq for Nuʻmān who was the guarian of the young Bahrām Gūr. Ascribed to Bihzād.(157r) Bahram Gūr kills the dragon. Ascribed to Bihzād. An artist’s name has been erased from the text panel(175r) Bishr feeling for the body of his drowned com...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6810, ff 199v-303r
Title:: Iskandarnāmah. Beginning in this copy with the Khiradnāmah (ff 199v-234v)
Scope & Content:: Illustrations:(214r) Iskandar, in the likeness of Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, with the seven sages. Inscription: Year AH 900 (1494/95).(225v) Iskandar on the island near the ‘Lion’s Mouth’ whirlpool beating the wolfskin drum of the bronze talisman in order to still the waters. One of the figures in the boat ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1490-1499
Extent:: 1 text

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 6836
Title:: 1 copy of Risālah dar mu’ammā by Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Nīshāpūrī, d. AH 904
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1569-1570
Extent:: 65 ff

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