This volume contains Yazıcıoğlu Ahmet Bijan's abridged translation Acayıbu'l-Mahlukat. The author says in the preface that in the time of Alexander, the sages of the world had come together and described the wonders of the universe. In the age of Imām Shāfiᶜī, that work had been translated fro...
Farman of Shah Tahmasp to ʿAli Quli Khan Shamlu, copy
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Copy of a Farman of the Safavid ruler of Iran, Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1526) to ʿAlī Qulī Khān Shāmlū, ordering him to receive the Mughal Emperor Humayun on his entering Persian territory with instructions for his entertainment and onwarad passage to the Safavid court at Qazvin in AH 950 (1543/44).
A scroll measuring 9 feet by 5 1/2 ins. listing the caravanserais of Isfahan with an account of the various classes of merchants who use them. Undated but probably 18th century.