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31. 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

32. 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

33. IO Islamic 3442

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3442
Title:
Shāhanshāhanāmah by Ṣabā, Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, d. 1822 or 3 شاهنشاهنامه
Scope & Content:
Shāhinshāhnāmah Decorations: Miniature: Folio 28r: Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh''s defeat of Ṣādiq Khān Shiqāqī. Dimensions unknown: 21x17cm. Miniature: Folio 32r: Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh seated on the Peacock Throne, two princess to his left, ministers on his right and before him presenting bags of money on trays. D...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1st of Rajab, 1225
Extent:
451folios

34. IO Islamic 3540

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3540
Title:
Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī شاهنامه
Scope & Content:
Persian epic poetry Decorations: Miniature: Folios 1v - 2r: Double-page miniature within a gorgeous illuminated border, of Sulaymān and Queen of Sheba, a large and crowded composition; the execution is meticulous, but the drawing of the faces a trifle weak. Each half (miniature only) Dimensions...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
569 folios

35. IO Islamic 3558

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3558
Title:
Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār, Dīvān-i Khāqān
Scope & Content:
Magnificent copy of the poems of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār, Shah of Iran (r. 1797-1834), who wrote poetry under the name Khāqān. Original Qajar binding with portraits of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
ff. ii+142+ii

36. IO Islamic 4811

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4811
Title:
Kabūtar nāmah by Sayyid Muḥammad Mūsavī Vālih
Scope & Content:
A work on pigeons arranged here as two separate works, both titled Kabūtar nāmah, by Sayyid Muḥammad Mūsavī Vālih who was born in Khurasan and migrated to Hayderabad and then Arcot where he died in 1184/1770. According to the author’s statement (f.14v), the work was written in elegant ‘kalām’ fo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1788
Extent:

22 folios

37. MSS Avestan 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 1
Title:
Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:
Vīdevdād sādah lacking the beginning which has been added in a later hand as have ff. 42-43. The date AY 403 (1435) on f..245 however is in Pazand and has been superimposed on the existing text and cannot be relied on. A note in Gujarati, dating from the late 18th century, on the endpaper says...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
1435
Extent:

248 folios

38. RSPA 86

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 86
Title:
The second part of a Ḥanafī legal text book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1700-1792
Extent:
ff. iv+195+iv

39. RSPA 93

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 93
Title:
Miscellany of Muhammadan Law
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1700-1792
Extent:
ff. iv+106+iv

40. RSPA 102

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 102
Title:
1 copy of al-Khulāṣah al-Alfiyyah by Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
1717
Extent:
ff. iii+97+iii