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41. Add MS 7875

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Title:
Majālis an-nafāᵓis - مجالس النفائس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains notices of contemporary poets writing in both Persian and Chagatai compiled by Mir Alisher Navoiy. Mir Alisher Navoiy is considered to be one of the most prolific writers in Chagatai. His contemporary, Babur, who gave an account of him in the Baburname, remarks that, altho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
987
Extent:
1 text, 129 ff

42. Or 3222

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Or 3222
Title:
Nuṣratnāma / نصرتنامه
Scope & Content:
A rare illustrated history of Genghis Khan and his descendants down to Shaybani Khan. The author of the work, which is also known as Tavārīkh-i guzīda, is unknown, although it appears that the original text of the work was originally written in 908 AH (1502-03 CE). The current manuscript is date...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
970
Extent:
1 text, 149 ff

43. Add MS 18548

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Add MS 18548
Title:
[Biography of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Isḥāq al-Ḥusaynī]
Scope & Content:
A life of the founder of the Safavid dynasty translated from the original Persian by Muḥammad Nashāṭī. The first leaf of the text, which contains the beginning of the doxology, is absent. In the extant portion of the preface, the translator, who describes himself as a humble Dervish leading a li...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 text, 498 ff

44. Add MS 7691

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Title:
[Persian treatise on orthography, pronunciation and penmanship]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on pronunciation and penmanship in Persian authored by Abu’l-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Riz̤ā, Majlis-Navīs-i Naṣīrī (ابو القاسم بن محمد رضا مجلسنویس نصیری). The text begins: الحمد للله الذي استنسخ لالواح قلوبنا نسخة عرفان وحدانيته... The author, who calls himself a bo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 111 ff

45. Add MS 7851

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Title:
Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā / قصص الانبياء
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the history of the Abrahamic prophets by Qāẓī Nāṣir, son of Burhān, of Ribāṭ Oghūz. In the frequent pieces of verse inserted throughout the text, the author refers to himself simply as Nāṣir Rabghūzī (see ff 68v, 77v, 288v, as well as in the last verse of the epilogue). His ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 text, ff. 249

46. Or 2872

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Or 2872
Title:
Dīvān-i Amānī - ديوان امانى
Scope & Content:
The collected poems of Amānī, in which the Chaghatay and Persian poems separated. The contents are as follows: ff 1v-89v : Chagatai poems, beginning with a masnavi in praise of God, the end of which is lost. The following contents do not appear to match those of the original volume, owing to t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 245 ff

47. Or 2892

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Or 2892
Title:
Sanglakh - سنگلاخ
Scope & Content:
The Sanglakh, a Chagatai-Persian dictionary with a grammatical introduction by Muhammad Mehdi. The author of the text is Mirza Mehdi Khan, a well-known historian of Nadir Shah. In the preface, he says that, from his early youth, he had been attracted by the poems of Mir Alisher Navoiy and that...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chagatai, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 369 ff

48. Add MS 26319

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Title:
[Five texts in Persian, English, Kurdish (Laki and Ardalani) and Chagatai]
Scope & Content:
A codex of three texts compiled separately: ff. 1v-4r : Laki Kurdish-Persian glossary ff. 5v-7r : Ardalani Kurdish-Persian glossary ff. 9r-10r : Kurdish-English glossary ff. 11v-16r : Chagatai-Persian glossary of unusual terms in the Vaqiat-i Baburi ff. 18v-30v : Jām-i Jahānnamāī in Persian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai, English, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century - 19th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 30

49. Add MS 7913, ff. 1v-44r

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Add MS 7913, ff. 1v-44r
Title:
[Glossary]
Scope & Content:
A Chagatai-Ottoman glossary of the poems of Navā’ī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text; 44 ff.

50. Or 16041

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Or 16041
Title:
[Lisan al-tayr] – [لسان الطير]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Lisan al-tayr (‘The speech of the birds’), a mystical masnavi by Ali Shir Nava’i (born 844 AH/1441 CE, died 906 AH/1501 CE). The work is based on Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s (died 586 AH/1190 CE [?]) renowned Persian mystical poem Mantiq al-tayr, which is an allegory of the Su...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 text, 148 ff

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