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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11996
Title:: Mam û Zîn - مام و زین
Scope & Content:: The Kurdish national epic Mam û Zîn, originally composed by Ehmed Xanî. A masnavi poem on themes of love. The manuscript has been foliated to begin from f. 3v, the start of the masnavi. Folios 1r-3r contain couplets and various graffiti in nastaliq, some of them dated from 1225 AH (1810-11 CE),...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:: 1221
Extent:: 1 text, 108 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12015
Title:: 1 copy of Gharā’ib al-Lughāt by Ārzū, Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī Khān, approximately 1689-1756
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Chagatai, Hindi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1809-1810
Extent:: 130 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12068
Title:: 1 copy of Zubdat al-‘ilāj by Muḥammad Taqī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Ṭabīb al-Ḥusaynī
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1800-1899
Extent:: 231 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 12076
Title:: Razmnāmah, translated into Persian by Naqīb Khān
Scope & Content:: The last five books of the ‘Razmnama’, the Persian translation by Naqib Khan of the ‘Mahabharata’. Twenty-four attributed miniatures. Sub-imperial Mughal. AH1007=AD1598. Illustrations: f.4v. Krishna and the Pandavas being told by the sage Vyasa where to obtain the horse for the sacrifice (‘asva...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1598
Extent:: 138 folios

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