An untitled biography of Sayyid Imām Ḥasan, son of Ḥazrat-i Āfāq. The author of the text is unknown. The manuscript was copied in East Turkistan in the 13th century AH (19th century CE).
The romance of Hamrāh and Ḥūrliqā, in mixed prose and verse. This story is untitled and unattributed. The manuscript was copied in Central Asia in the 13th century AH (19th century CE).
This volume contains the following two texts: (I) ff 1r-32r : A hagiography of the saint Shaykh Sha‘bān, also called Shāhmarān. The author of the text is not named. This copy is lacking at the beginning ; (II) ff 32v-33v : A mukhammas about Shaykh Sha‘bān (32v-33r) known as the Tazkira of Koh...
Four narratives from popular literature, including : ff 1v-85v : Qiṣṣa-’i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badī‘ al-Jamāl, the romance of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badī‘ al-Jamāl; ff 87v-112v: [Qiṣṣa-’i Muḥammad Ḥanīf] Qiṣṣa-’i pur-laṭāfat va malāḥat-i shīrzāda-’i Yazdān Muḥammad Ḥanīf Qattāl-i ‘Ālam ibn Shāh Murtaż...
A poem about the Uighur leader Ya‘qūb Beg composed by an unknown author. The manuscript was copied in East Turkistan in the late 13th century AH (19th century CE).
A Chaghatay translation of Qābūsnāma, the Persian treatise on ethics and government, completed in 475/1082, by Kay-Kā’ūs ibn Vashmgīr. This copy lacks both the beginning and the end. The text opens with the list of 44 chapters. The text was copied at Kashghar, likely in the 18th century CE.
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...
A compendium of basic Islamic religious knowledge in Eastern Turki under the title of Risāla-’i Ma‘ārif-i Shaybānī. The original text was written in 913 AH (1508 CE) by Abū'l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Shaybānī Khān (reigned 906-915 AH/1500-10 CE) for his son Muḥammad Taymūr. The text contains a fine illum...
A folk narrative concerning the Malāmatī mystical poet Mushrib or Mashrab. The manuscript was copied in East Turkistan in the late 13th century AH (late 19th century CE).