[Chagatai-Persian Glossary of Unusual Terms in the Vaqiat-i Baburi]
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A Glossary of Chagatai and other uncommon words in the Memoirs of Babur, giving the words in the order in which they occur in the text along with their Persian equivalents. The Chagatai words have been underlined in pencil, with occasional references to their appearance in an unknown copy of th...
Selection of ghazals and quatrains by Mir Ali Shir Nava’i
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This section of a two-part miscellany contains a selection of ghazals and quatrains in Chagatai by the language''s most renowned poet, Mir Ali Shir Nava’i (844–906 AH/1441–1501 CE). The verses are written in good nasta‘liq in diagonal lines. The work can be dated to the late twelfth century AH...
Two Chagatai texts : ff 1v-111v : Haft Akhtar, a grammar of Chagatai explained in Persian with copious poetical quotations by Kasi, son of Birbal, a Kayath of Lucknow. Most of the poetry is from Emir Nava'i, Mevlana Fuzuli and Emir Shahi. The present copy, transcribed from a manuscript in the ...
The collected poems in Persian and Chagatai of the Mughal-era statesman and author Bayram Khān Bahārlū, Khān-i Khānan (died 968 AH/1561 CE). The Persian Divan is divided into qasidat (ff 1r-11v); ghazals (ff12v-27v); and rubaiyyat (ff27v-29v). The Chagatai Divan, which begins on f 29v, consist...
An incomplete prose version of the legendary epic of Alexander of Macedonia translated into Chagatai. This work lacks both a title and the name of the author. This manuscript was copied in Central Asia, likely in the 12th century AH (18th century CE).
A codex containing the following four texts : ff 2v-197v : Qavaid-i Turki, a grammar and vocabulary of an Oghuz dialect spoken primarily in Azerbaijan and Iran, written at Dhaka in 1198 AH for Sayyid Ahmed Ali Khan Bahadur by Muhammad Mehdi Tabrizi. Many of the forms described differ considera...
A set of paradigms of Chagatai grammar explained in Persian. The text was compiled by Mīr Sayyid Ḥusayn for Muhammad Akbar, the son of Aurangzeb. . This manuscript was copied in India in the 12th or 13th century AH (18th or 19th century CE). 86 f. 20 x 13 cm.
