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151. Or 8767

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8767
Title:
[Mecmua]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two texts: (I) ff 1v-49r : Saatname, a treatise on the hours of the night and their religious significance, originally composed by Hibatullah İbn-i İbrahim (ff 3r, 5r). The contents of the text are largely taken from the Nivān-i lavāmiᶜ (نوان لوامع) and the Te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 135 ff

152. Or 8769

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8769
Title:
Majmua
Scope & Content:
A collection of nine texts: (1) ff 1v-32r : Bāb 5 of an unidentified work, beginning with a commentary upon Qur’ān 9:72 completed in 860 AH (1455-46 CE); with the following notes on ff 32v-34r ; (2) f 32v : An account of how Adam was instructed by Gabriel to perform ghusl (major ablution) ; ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

Codex, ff 81

153. Or 9664

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9664
Title:
Taẕkira-i Ḥaẓrat Imām Jaᶜfar-i Ṭayyār - تذكرۀ حضرت امام حعفر طیار
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a biography of Imām Jaᶜfar, cousin of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم, by an unidentified author. The volume is labelled as "Tazkira of Imam Ja'far Tairan 23.9.06". The manuscript was likely copied in the 19th century CE.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 59 ff

154. Or 9760

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 9760
Title:
[Majmu'a] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
A codex containing five texts in Eastern Turkic on various topics : (I) ff 3r-4r : A genealogical table of the Naqshibandi shuyūkh; (II) ff 4v-80r : Sabāt al-‘ājizīn, a religious didactic poem composed by Ṣūfī Allāhyār; (III) ff 81v-112v : Ḥażrat-i Yūsuf qiṣṣa-’i Zulaykhā, a Chagatai prose v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
5 texts, 125 ff

155. Or 11249

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11249
Title:
Dīvān-i Fānī / ديوان فانى
Scope & Content:
A collection of poetical works, including those of ‘Alī Shīr Navā’ī ; also know as the Dīvān-i Navā’ī.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
916
Extent:
Codex ; 210 ff.

156. Or 11685

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11685
Title:
[Gulistan bi-l-Turkī] - كلستان بالتركى
Scope & Content:
A Chaghatai translation of Sa‘dī’s classic Gulistān. The original translation was made in 800 AH (1397-98 CE) by Isfijābī (or Sibijābī) for Muḥammad Sulṭān (ff 3v, 5r), who was evidently the grandson and heir of Timur. Nothing is known about the author, who took his name from Isfijāb, the site o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 text, 110 ff

157. Or 16038

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16038
Title:
Tarjuma-’i Quduri - ترجمۀ قدوري
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a Chagatai translation of Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Quduri’s (died 428 AH/1037 CE) al-Mukhtasar, a treatise on Islamic jurisprudence according to the Hanafi school. No other manuscript of such a translation has been traced in published catalogues. The widespread popularity of al-...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
9th or early 10th century
Extent:
1 text, 120 ff

158. Photo 231

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 231
Title:
Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86. Photographer(s): Survey of India
Scope & Content:
Half-leather green album (scuffed and with front cover detached), measuring 560 x 390 mm, title as above stamped in gold on front cover. The album contains photographic copies of drawings by Sir Edward Law Durand while attached to the Afghan Boundary Commission. Duplicate set at Photo 12, which ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1884-1886
Extent:
106 items

159. Photo 231(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 231(1)
Title:
Kaisar, the Tamarisk stream, some 4 or 5 marches after leaving Quettah. Photographer: Survey of India
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Original sketch inscribed: 'Kaisar. E.D. 84.' Genre: Landscape Photography Photographic copy of a sketch by Edward Durand, Assistant Commissioner, Afghan Boundary Commission. The letterpress description of this scene (from the printed list accompanying the duplicate set of these p...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1884
Extent:
1 item

160. Photo 231(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 231(2)
Title:
Start from Nushki over the Biluch desert. Photographer: Survey of India
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Original sketch inscribed: 'Start from Nushki. E.D. 84.' Genre: Landscape Photography Showing the baggage train of the Afghan Boundary Commission setting out. Photographic copy of a sketch by Edward Durand, Assistant Commissioner, Afghan Boundary Commission. The letterpress descri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1884
Extent:
1 item

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