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1. Delhi Persian 965

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Persian 965
Title:
Ilhamat-i Qudsi
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1600-1857
Extent:
79 ff.

2. IO Islamic 132

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 132
Title:
Dīvān-i Muʻizzī by Muʻizzī, Amīr ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad, b. 1048 or 9 ديوان معزى and 5 other texts
Scope & Content:
Collection of poetical Divans including poems by Muʻizzī, As̲īr al-Dīn Ākhsīkatī, Adīb Sābir, Qamar, Shams Ṭabasī and Nāṣir Khusraw Decorations: Miniature: Folio 1v: Sulṭān Sanjar, attended by the poet Mu'izzi and four courtiers of Mongol appearance, viewing the moon over a rocky hi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
713-714
Extent:
112 folios

3. IO Islamic 137

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 137
Title:
Sharaf al-Dīn Yazdī, Ẓafarnāmah
Scope & Content:
The Ẓafarnāmah, also called the Tārīkh-i jahāngushāʼī-yi Taymūr, a biography of Timur by Sharaf al-Dīn Yazdī completed ca. 1424. Illustrated with 30 miniatures, 16th century Shiraz style. Includes a detailed list of contents (ff. vi verso - vii verso). Colophon dated 5 Ramazan 939 (31 March 1533...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1533
Extent:
474 folios

4. IO Islamic 138

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 138
Title:
Jamālī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:
Five masnavis composed by the poet Jamālī who may have lived at Tabriz at the beginning of the 15th century, and illustrated with six miniatures (ff. 14r, 24r, 75r, 101v, 125v, 205r). Copied at Baghdad. Colophons dated 8 Ramazan 869 (4 May 1465, f. 86r) and Muharram 870 (August/September 1465, f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1465
Extent:
229 folios

5. IO Islamic 843

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 843
Title:
Preface by Sa‘dī and 15 other texts
Scope & Content:
Kullīyāt of Sa‘dī کلّیات سعدی Decorations: Miniature: Folios 1v - 2r: Double-page court scene within a splendid illuminated border and decorated margins. On 1v is Shah 'Abbas enthroned with courtiers and musicians; on 2r are courtiers and ladies, together with Turkish, Indian and European ambas...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1034
Extent:
414 folios

6. IO Islamic 1026

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1026
Title:
Tarjūmah-' al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fārisī ترجومۀ المسالک و الممالک
Scope & Content:
Persian adaptation of al-Istakhrī's al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik Decorations: Map: Folio 3v: 'The Western Region', i.e.The Straits of Gibraltar, southernSpain(right) andNorth Africa(left). The sea is blue: town are circles of various colours and mountains are roughly triangular. Dimensions [written]...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
95 folios

7. IO Islamic 3043

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3043
Title:
Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:
Zoroastrian text
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
143 folios

8. IO Islamic 3048

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3048
Title:
Qur'an, juz' 23 and 24
Scope & Content:
Qur’ān, in Arabic; juz' 23 & 24 only; a MS from Java. No text frames. No verse markers. Surah headings are in black ink. Marginalia: juz’ marked in black ink in the margins. Annotations: f.c.: 3048 / Loth 39 / Arabic language / zabān ‘arabī; b.c.: No.20 Prayers.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
28 folios

9. IO Islamic 3171

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3171
Title:
Nān va namak
Scope & Content:
Nān va namak 'Bread and salt', a cookery-book, originally containing ten chapters, on the kitchen recipes as used in the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's court. Text incomplete with leaves missing after f. 63v, in the middle of section 9. Title taken from note in English on f. 1r: "Kookery / KOOKI...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
63 folios

10. IO Islamic 3214

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3214
Title:
Sindbādnāmah
Scope & Content:
An anonymous version of the adventures of Sindbad in Persian verse, thought to have been originally composed in Sanskrit and subsequently translated into many languages. This copy is believed to have been executed in Golconda, India, around the year 1575. It is written in nastaʻliq script and co...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
166 folios