Abstract: Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin. Described by Mika Natif.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.The album consists of 55 folios measuring 485 x 280 mm.Origin: The signed paintings and calligraphies are attributed to Mīr ʻAlī, Sulṭān ʻAlī al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad ʻAẓīm al-Ikthīr, ʻImād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī (= Shāh Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī Chishtī, fol. 32a), Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh, Muḥammad ʻAlī, Muḥammad Badīʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Tajallī ʻAlī Shāh, Muḥammad Karīm, Anūp Chator (Chatar, Chitor: see Titley), Mīr Muḥammad Māh Ḥusaynī, Zayn al-Ḥaqq, Zarrīn Raqam, Muḥammad Afḍal, Ghulām Muṣṭafá Khān, Muḥammad Aṭhar, Asad Allāh, Mughalkhān, Ghulām Jamāl Allāh Khān, Sayyid ʻAlī Būkhārī Rūshan Raqam, Jawāhir Raqam-i Thānī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ʻAlī Gawhar, Muḥammad al-Fakhkhār, Abū al-Baqāʼ al-Mūsawī, Kifāyat Khān, Ismāʻīl, Ilyās Bahādur, Aḥmad Shāh, Muḥammad Dalīr, and date from 1014H. 1630 or 31 to 1189 1775. Other undated paintings can be dated to 18th-19th century India and 16th or early 17th century Central Asia. One piece is dated Awrangābād, 1203 1788 or 9 (fol. 22a).
Abstract: A collection of six texts on Sufism in Persian and Arabic.Binding note: Full burgundy leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets.Contents: 1. 20W, fol. 1b-9b: Treatise on the lawfulness of samāʻ. In Arabic.Contents: 2. 21W, fol. 14b-47a: Ḥasanāt al-ʻārifīn / Dārā Shikūh. In Persian; year of compilation is given as 1062H (1651 or 2) (fol. 14b).Contents: 3. 22W, fol. 48b-66b: Lavāyiḥ / Jāmī. In Persian. In Persian; dated Jumādá al-Thānī 1232H (April-May 1817) (fol. 66b).Contents: 4. 23W, fol. 67a-74b: Ṣulḥ-i kull / Khūb Muḥammad Chishtī. In Persian; composed in 1016H (1607 or 8) and dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 74b).Contents: 5. 23W, fol. 75b-85a: Risālah / Muḥammad Bāqī Billāh. In Persian; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 85a).Contents: 6. 24W, fol. 86b-98b: Ayyuhā al-walad / al-Ghazzālī. In Arabic; dated Ramaḍān 1232H (July-August 1817) (fol. 98b). Followed by a short prayer in Arabic and Persian on fol. 99a.Ms. codex.Physical description: 15-19 lines per page; written in black by different hands on brown Arabic glazed, laid paper. Text 1 written in naskhi; texts 2-6 written in nastaʻliq. Catchwords and rubrication; a few marginal notes. Some insect damage. List of texts on fol. 1a and on label on front cover. Numbers 20-24 in Western numerals listed on label on back cover. Fol. 10a-14a, 47b-48a, 75a, 85b-86a, 99b-100 are either blank or contain title information by a later hand.Text 1 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خص الاولىاء بحسن الاستماعText 2 incipit: بسم الله ... احدى راست حمد بىحد که حمد و حامد و محمود اوست و حمدى راستText 3 incipit: بسم الله ... رب وفقنا للتكميل والتميم لا احصى ثناء عليك كيف وكل ثنائي يعود اليكText 4 incipit: بسم الله ... حمد جلىلى را که بجمىع محامد محمد است و صلوات بر انسان کامل که در مرتبه جامع محمد استText 5 incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الحمد لله که حقىقت از آفتاب روشن تر استText 6 incipit (after introduction): بسم الله ... ايها الولد العزيز المحب اطال الله بقاءك لطاعته
Abstract: Collection of three texts related to Niʻmat Allāh Valī.Binding note: Orange-brown leather over cardboard. Blind-tooled frames with small motif in the corners. Blue paper pastedowns.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-338a: Dīvān / Niʻmat Allāh Valī.Contents: 2. fol. 338a-340a: Short text on the Mahdī.Contents: 3. fol. 340b-400b: Biography of Niʻmat Allāh Valī, in five chapters.Ms. codex.Title provided by cataloger.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red and occasionally gold (see fol. 343b). The text is framed in gold, black and blue. Dark cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves mended (see fol. 1-8 and fol. 400).Decoration: Illuminated title page (fol. 1a). Illuminated headpieces at the beginning of texts 1 and 3 (fol. 1b and 340b).Origin: Text 1 copied on 1 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 924 Dec. 4, 1518 (colophon, fol. 338a). Text 3 copied in 925? 1519 (colophon, fol. 400b, hardly legible).
Abstract: Leaf from chapter 29 of the Mūnis al-aḥrār, a collection of poetry. Each verse alternates with a corresponding illustration as follows: battle gear; weapons; fruit trees; four types of doves; peacock, parrot, and nightingale; and jewelry.Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in large thuluth and medium naskh in gold, blue, black, and red. Each line of verse alternates with an illustration. The leaf is damaged along the bottom; it was cut out of its original frame and glued onto another page of a different text that now forms its margins.Origin: This page is from chapter 29 of a ms. which is now scattered. The ms. is dated Ramaḍān 741 H February-March 1341 and was copied and illustrated in Isfahan according to its colophon (Swietochowski and Carboni, p. 25).
Abstract: Leaf from the Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh depicting nine emperors of the later Liang dynasty. A-side contains mention of the Late Chou (950-960) and Northern Song (960-1122) Dynasties. B-side contains mention of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279).Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in medium naskh in black on heavy, beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in double red lines; headings in red. Illuminations in gold and color. The recto is blank.Origin: The script and artistic style closely match that of Garrett no. 89G.
Abstract: Leaf from the Jāmiʻ al-tavārīkh. Contains mention of the Liang Dynasty (502-556) and Hsüan-ti, founder of the Late/Western Liang Hou Liang,(555-562).Ms. leaf.Physical description: Written in medium naskh in black on beige glazed, laid Arabic paper. Text framed in blue and red; headings in red. Illuminations in gold and color."Origin: The paper qualitycalligraphyand measurements seem to correspond to the stipulations in the author's waqf (Blairp. 14)which would indicated that this copy was produced in his scriptorium in Tabriz in the 14th century."
Abstract: Portrait of the famous Persian miniaturist Riz̤ā ʻAbbāsī by his student Muʻīn Muṣavvir. The subject wears spectacles and is holding a picture of a European which he is painting, with the implements of his craft spread around him (description by Moghadam).Image + illuminated frame: 32.4 x 21.3 cm.Mounted: 51.4 x 41.3 cm.Gouache and gold on paper; portrait is framed in illuminated borders; mounted on cardboard. Entire piece framed in modern black frame with ivory matting and glass.Dated Ramaḍān 1084 H December 1673 or January 1674.
Abstract: The left illustration (no. 91G) depicts a Mongol ruler sitting on a throne with three attendants. The right illustration (no. 92G) depicts Muḥammad on horseback with four attendants. Both are simple illustrations with minimal details and figures that occupy most of the pictorial surface. Their facial features, clothes, and furniture link them to the Ilkhanid period. The text is from an unidentifed historical work in Persian.Left image (no. 91G): 6.4 x 4.4 cm.Right image (no. 92G): 6.6 x 5.3 cm.
Abstract: An incomplete copy of Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn, from bāb 2 to the end.Binding note: Full brown leather with stamped fillets; front cover partly detached.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a, 195a, by later hands.On front cover: "322" in Arabic script.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in neat naskh by two hands in black on tan and beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic quotations vocalized. Some marginal notes. Many leaves torn and/or repaired; fol. 1-26, 31-34 detached from textblock. Insert between fol. 132, 133. Some damp staining and smudging.Origin: Text completed in Rajab 1079 H. December 1668. This copy completed Rabīʻ al-Thānī, 1124 H. May 1712 (fol. 195b).
Abstract: Volume 1 of a text on Urdu grammar.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 241b. Note on leaf 1a indicates that this manuscript contains volume 1.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Paginated in Arabic script. Some staining; mild insect damage. Covers are detached; front cover bears a label reading "265 KE" in Western script.Origin: 9 Ramaḍān 1221 H 20 November 1806 (leaf 241b).Incipit: ثناى بى اندازه داورىرا سزاوار است که زبان آدمى را بلغت هاى گوناگون بنطق آورد و منت خاکى را بقدرت کامله گوىا کرد
Abstract: Two dīvāns of Persian poetry with 19th-century European plates.Binding note: Quarter cloth with leather covers.Contents: 138W, leaves 3b-28b: Dīvān-i Bīdil -- 139W, leaves 30b-161b: Dīvān-i Shams.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1a and label on back cover by a later hand.Additional label on back cover reads "Deevanabadeel & Shumseetubrez.""Three 19th-century European plates from R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts have been inserted: Full Dress (between leaves 13-14)no. 73January 11822. A View of the Italian Opera House (between leaves 45-46)no. 81September 11822. Evening Dress (between leaves 143-144)August 11822 no number given."'Physical descriptiontext 1: 15 lines per pagein two columns; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on cream glazedlaid Arabic paper. Text framed in black and red with double red lines separating columns. Catchwords; text block has been trimmed. Insect damageresulting in occasional loss of text.'Physical description, text 2: 11 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on gray glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Insect damage.Origin: Text 2 dated 1 Jumādá 1 1249 H 16 September 1833, by Muḥammad Z̤iyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad Zayn al-Ḥaqq ʻAbbāsī al-Aḥmadābādī al-Gujarātī (leaf 161b). Text 1 likely from the early 19th century.
Abstract: "Şahidî İbrahim's Persian divanAbstract: together with his Tuhfe-yi ŞahidîAbstract: a Persian-Turkish dictionary in verse."Binding note: Olive cloth with embossed floral pattern and light green paper around borders on covers. Brown leather on spine and cover edges. Pastedowns in marbled paper.Contents: 1. Fol. 1b-51b: Dīvān-i Shāhidī.Contents: 2. Fol. 52a-74a: Tuhfe-yi Şahidî.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1b.Text 1 is dated last 10 days of Ramaḍan 932 (1526) -- colophon (fol. 52b).Text 1 is written diagonally in two columns in small nastaʻlīq in black ink, with 7 lines per page. The text is is inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. It has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b, beautifully executed in gold leaf with blue, orange, black and white watercolors. Text 2 is written in two columns in very small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication and with 17 lines per page. The text is inside a frame outlined in red ink, except on ff. 52b-53a, where the frame is in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed paper with visible chain lines, different for the two texts, with several olive colored leaves in text 1. Text 2 has a table of contents on fol. 52a, and has some marginal annotations throughout.
Abstract: Incomplete copy.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 17 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. One insert. Damp staining, mainly marginal. Fol. 1-10, 463-472 ragged, with some paper tears and repairs. Incomplete at beginning and end.
Abstract: Illuminated copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ.Binding note: Lacquered binding, with central panel consisting of a floral arabesque with birds and animal heads developing around a central eight pointed star. Orange leather doublure elaborately tooled in gilt.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 3 columns to the page, with 15 lines per column (outer column written diagonally with 10 lines to the column). Written in nastaʻlīq. Entries in gold and blue.Decoration: Six full-page miniatures on fol. 1b, 2a, 67b, 107a, 132b, 133a. The manuscript opens and ends with two full-page miniatures (fol.1b-2a and 132b-133a), with floral decor in gold on the margin. Miniatures are also found on fol. 67b (dated 926 or 936 H.) and on fol. 107a.Decoration: Illuminations in gold and colors and margins decorated with flowers and animals executed in gold on fol. 2b, 3a, 68a, 107a, 132b and 133a.Decoration: The two first pages of the text (fol. 2b-3a) are magnificently illuminated, in blue, gold, and colors, with a decor of flowers, trees, and animals in gold on the margin. Similar decoration on the last two pages of the text (fol. 131b-132a).Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Jumādá al-Thānī 926 1520 (or 936? 1530, fol. 132a). Miniature 2 (fol. 2a) bears the same date.Incipit: الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كاسا ونولها
Abstract: Collection of poems in Persian.Binding note: Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are similarly tooled and gold painted, with a central mandorla linked to the outer frame by an horizontal and a vertical fillet, and gold painted corner pieces. The envelope flap has a similar decoration. The doublure of the upper and lower covers has a tooled and painted decoration with a central mandorla and corner pieces in orange, green and gold. The doublure of the envelope flap has a similar decoration.Ms. codex.Title from the illuminated opening (fol. 1b).12 lines per page, in two columns with central headpieces, written in nastaʻlīq using black ink. Gold, black and blue fillets form the outer frame; a single red fillet divides the columns. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines visible. On fol. 1b: illuminated headpiece. On fol. i(a): label with mention in Arabic "raqm 309" ; inscription in Arabic script "Sayyid ʻAlī Kitāb al-miʻrāj".Copied in Muḥarram 980 or 1098 by Yādkār(?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Niẓām (colophon, fol. 254a).Collation: Paper ; fol. i (endpaper, with inscription and labels) + 254 + i (endpaper).Incipit: از پدهنت بوىى آمد بگلستانها کردند پر از نكهت گلها همه دامانها با رشته همه چاکى شد دوخته وين طرفه كز رشته زلف تست اين چاک گريبانهاExplicit: خال در ملک جمالش نه مکست از سر زلف كاندرين ملک چو طاوس نگارست مکس
Abstract: Abridged translation of Nūr al-ʻuyūn fī talkhīṣ siyar al-amīn al-maʾmūn by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, a biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.Binding note: Rebound in cloth.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 22a.Title given in text on leaf 1b, line 11: Surūr al-makhzan sic fī tarjamat Nūr al-ʻuyūn.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on blue machine-made paper. Catchwords; marginal notes and corrections. Some staining; upper outer corner moldered.Origin: Jumādá II 1256 H August 1840, by Saʻd al-Dīn Ḥaydar (leaf 22a).Incipit: بعد سپاس خداى تبارک و تعالى کشاىندۀ درهاى عطا
Abstract: History of Mysore through 1789; this volume covers the reign of Haidar Ali. Table of contents in English on fol. 4b.Binding note: Full maroon leather with gold-tooled fillets; maroon leather doublures.Ms. codex.Dedicated to Tīpū Sulṭān (fol. 11a).Title from text on fol. 12b. The title is also noted in pencil on fol. 5a along with a description in English: History of Mysoor under Hyder Ally.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in indifferent shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper, bearing the watermark ALLEE. Catchwords. Mild staining. In excellent condition.Incipit: سلطان نشاتىن صورى و معنوى الغاظ و معانى ستاىش و نىاىش پادشاه على الاطلاق است
Abstract: Collection of treatises, mostly in verse, on medicine.Binding note: Modern full leather with blind-stamping and tooling.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-3b: Mujarrabāt-i Abī Z̲arr. Metrical treatise on medicaments attributed to Abū Dharr, a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad.Contents: 2. leaves 3b-7a: Notes.Contents: 3. leaves 7b-88b: Ṭibb-i Shihābī / Shihāb al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Nāgawrī. A metrical compendium of medicine, also known as Shifāʼ al-maraz̤.Contents: 4. leaf 89a: Dar shinākhtan-i mazzah-i duhn. Short poem on popular medicine.Contents: 5. leaves 89b-90b: Fāyidah dar shinākhtan-i amrāz̤ az bawl-i marīz̤. Extract on diagnosing illness using urine.Contents: 6. leaves 91a-91b: Notes and verses.Ms. codex.Title from text 3, leaf 88b.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on brown glazed, laid Arabic paper. Poems in two columns. Rubrication and catchwords; first and last pages of text 3 framed in red. First leaf is pasted to another sheet of paper. Extensive water damage, but text still legible; a few paper repairs.Origin: 22 Ṣafar 1105 H 23 October 1693, by Nūr Muḥammad khalaf-i Muḥammad Qāyim ʻurifa bi- Kanbū Hāshimī (leaf 88b).Incipit (text 3): نخستىن کنم نوک خامه روان * بتوحىد پروردگار جهان
Abstract: History of Tīmūr (Tamerlane).Binding note: Red leather. The covers have a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces. The outer border consists of fillets and a large guilloche. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. Traces of a now wanting flap.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 500b).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two gold rules outlined in black, with a blue outline. Dark cream laid paper, glossy, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf with text. Inscriptions on fol. 501a-b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (omits the first fol.). Stained with water.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece executed in gold, blue, and colors, on fol. 2b.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Spine label (vertical; partly wanting) with title in French: "Aly Al-Yezdy Histoire de Tamerlan".Three pieces of paper with printed text on the pastedown of the upper cover, the first with a notice in French describing the manuscript under no. 320 ; the second with the name "M. Silvestre de sacy" and inscriptions in pencil ; the third bearing the following text: "Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco 70, Avenue des Champs-Elysées".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khalīl Allāh ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Shamītī(?), Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 887 June 27, 1482 (fol. 500b, in Arabic).Incipit: مدا كثيرا مباركا لمن توتى الملك من تشاء وتنزع الملك ممن تشاء وصلوه طيبه دايمه على خاتم الانبياء وسيد الاولياء محمد واله ... مقاله اول در ذكر صادرات احوال حضرت صاحب قراني انار الله برهانه بنام خدائي كه از نامه اوستExplicit: خلايق مرفه ز احسان او زمين وزمان تحت فرمان او الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين م
Abstract: "Illustrated copy of a Persian version of Qazwīnī's Book of marvels (version (a) in Storey's descriptionAbstract: Persian Literature (1927-)Abstract: vol. IIAbstract: 1Abstract: p. 125). Table of contents in the preamble (fol. 3a-5b). This copy is illustrated with 180 miniatures (most of them small) and 11 diagrams. Several elements show that this copy is not of the highest quality (text crossed outAbstract: ʻunwān left blank or with title written in a rough mannerAbstract: etc.). In additionAbstract: some miniatures are defective (see illustration of the Sun emerging behind the constellation of the LionAbstract: fol. 16b)."Binding note: Upper and lower covers are now detached and stored in a separate sleeve. Brown leather, with central panel with a deep gilt stamped central oval with double pendants, all outlined in gold with radiating flecks. Similarly tooled corner-pieces. The border consists of deep sunk gilt stamped cartouches, rosaces and corners ; gilt painting between stamps. Doublure : Red leather stamped and tooled in gilt, with inscriptions in cartouches reading: "Ḥubb al-fīrmān(?)" and "qadā tū āmān(?)" on one cover, "Muqarrir al-khāqān(?)" and a damaged and illegible inscription, probably starting with "Muḥammad"on the other.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 3a.Physical description: 20 lines to the page ; written in nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and fiber visible. Margins of most leaves repaired. The text is framed within a medium large gold line outlined in black, with a blue outline on the outer edge (faded on several leaves). The miniatures are framed in one medium large gold line outline in black ; some miniatures go over the text frame (see e.g. fol. 9b, 87b, 193a, 236b). One small miniature on the margin (the deer on fol. 237b). Occasional lines of poetry and annotations written by another hand on the margins (see fol. 197b, 227b-228a). Dampness damage (stains, ink transfer from one page to the next), with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil (blank after fol. 116, 179, 229).Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in opaque watercolors, ink, and gilt (fol. 1a); margins of fol. 1b-2a decorated with flowers in gold. The same floral motif appears on the sides of the colophon (fol. 240a).Decoration: Contains 165 miniatures in opaque watercolors and ink, representing planets (fol. 14b-18b), constellations such as Cassiopea (fol. 21b), inhabitants of exotic and fabulous islands, such as the inhabitants of Sumatra (fol. 56b) and of Wāqwāq (fol. 56b), fabulous animals, and monsters (see fol. 9b, 69b, 189b), Archangels (fol. 32b-34a), and various plants (fol. 107b on) and animals (fol. 196b on). Most miniatures are executed on a blue or gold sky, with Chinese clouds, with mountain or rocks behind which animals or human figures appear ; streams and trees are other common motifs.Decoration: Contains diagrams in gold and red.Origin: The copy (or the text?) is dated Ṣafar 895 1489 or 865 1460 and signed ʻAbd Allāh son of ʻAlī Bey Damāvandī in the colophon (fol. 240a). According to Moghadam, illustrations and binding probably from 18th century India.Incipit: العظمة لك والبراه لجلالك اللهم يا قايم الذات ومفيض الخيرات واجب الوجود وواهب العقول ... اما بعد همى كويد اصغر العباد زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود الكمونى القزوينى تولاه الله بفضله كه چون بحكم الاهى مفرقت اهل ووطن اتفاق افتادExplicit: ابو ريحان كويد كه بنده التماس كردم تا انرا حاضر آوردند ومن آن را ديدم وتعجب كردم تمت الكتاب بعون ملك الوهاب بتاريخ شهر صفر ختم بالخير والظفر سنه 895 (او 865) خاك پاى اهل ايمان عبد الله ولد علىبيك دماوندى م م م
Abstract: "Collection of the author's ghazalsAbstract: arranged alphabetically; incomplete at beginning."Binding note: Limp red leather with black leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf; record follows erroneous foliation. There are seven front flyleaves, of which only the first four are numbered; the first leaf of the text is numbered 5.Physical description: 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Marginal damp staining and a few repairs.Origin: Likely 18th century; collated by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Shuʻāʻ al-Mulk al-Shīrāzī on 8 Shawwāl 1354 H 3 January 1936 (leaf 2a).
Abstract: Treatise on Imāmī fiqh translated into Persian (see fol. 1b, l. 7), comprising 18 parts, from Kitāb al-ṭahārah to Kitāb al-qiṣaṣ.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather doublure. The spine and the edges of the covers have been repaired.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 161b).23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Glazed dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves apparently wanting between fol. 8 and 9. Some leaves are mended (see fol. 1 and 2). Marginal notes. Inscriptions on fol. 1a. Seals on fol. 1a and 161b.Copied in 977 (colophon, fol. 161bisb).Incipit: الحمد لله العليّ الذّي اجتبى جيبة المجتبي واصطفى صفيه المصطفى ... وبعد پوشيده نماند كه بنابر اشارت واجب الطاعةExplicit: واكر قاتل ان متعدد باشند لازم شود بر هر يک کفاره کامل
Abstract: Illustrated Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, including a book of spells describing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations.Binding note: Blind stamped and tooled red leather.Ms. codex.Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. Sept.-Oct. 1906 by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. 1911 to 1921.Incipit: بسم ... بكير از زير قدم او يكمشت خاك واين جعارا هفت بخواند ... بسم ... اللهم اله السموات والارض اعجل اعجل اعجل ارجع ارجع ارجع حب الخير
Abstract: First volume of an anti-Christian polemic written by a convert to Islam who emigrated to Iran during the reign of Safavid Shāh Sultān Ḥusayn (r. 1694-1722). The text was originally written in a European language then translated by the author into Persian. The complete work is supposed to consist of four volumes; however, only the first volume appears to be extant (Āghā Buzurg, XXV, 179).Binding note: Limp brown leather with tooled fillets; spine reinforced with cloth.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.Physical description: 13-26 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on modern paper. Fol. 90a-95b written in purple ink; fol. 107-108 on lined paper. Rubrication in purple; catchwords on most pages. A few marginal notes. Paginated in Arabic script beginning on fol. 1a. fol. 97b blank, but no lacuna in text. Inserts between fol. 54-55, 105-106. Some leaves detached and edges of paper dog-eared.Origin: Copy completed 16 Shaʻbān 1346 H. 8 February 1928.Incipit: سپاس بىقىاس صانع بى نظىر را سزاوار است که گلستانجهان از آفتاب سنع آورده و بوستان فلک از اظهار موضوعات درىاى وجودش قطره ىست
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomy and astrology.Binding note: Dark brown leather over cardboards. Blind-tooled border.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-141a : Kifāyat al-taʻlīm dar ṣināʻat-i tanjīm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī.Contents: 2. fol. 142b-181b : Kitāb-i S̲amarah-ʾi Baṭlamiyūs dar aḥkām-i nujūm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī?.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the title of the first text in the collection.Physical description: European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and 182 are later additions.Origin: According to colophons, copied in Shaʻbān 1232 June-July 1817 (fol. 141a, 181b)
Abstract: Treatise on medicine in two parts (see description of contents in the preamble of the text, fol. 3a-4b), also known as "Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī". The text is dedicated to Sulṭān Mujāhid al-Dīn Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, i.e. Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Muẓẓafarī, ruler of Fars, 786-789/1384-1387, according to the Mashhad catalogue. Rieu suggests that the dedicatee is rather Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn of Kashmīr, 823-875/1420-1470. There is no evidence however that the laqab of the latter is Mujāhid al-Dīn (Storey, C. Persian Literature).Binding note: Half bound in paper and purple cloth.Ms. codex.Title from inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover.Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Thin laid paper ; frame-ruled. Stained with water ; insect damage.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Origin: The copy is not dated. The paper and the script suggest the 19th cent.Incipit: يا فتاح رب يسر وتمم بالخير بسم ... شكر وسپاس مر خالقي را كه در خلقت انساني دقايق حكمت او بي پايانستExplicit: با عسل بر ذكر طلا كنند همين عمل كند والله اعلم بالصواب تمام شد
Abstract: Treatise on Arabic lexicography based on words of the Qurʼān. According to the beginning of the text, in 27 books (kitāb), arranged according to the first and last letters of a word. Incomplete at beginning and end.Binding note: Black leather (peeling) with blind tooling and stamping. Red-dyed paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.Title from spine label (horizontal).Physical description: 23 lines to the page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The script gets larger towards the end of the copy, and tends towards nastaʻlīq. European paper with watermark.Inscription in Arabic numerals on a handmade label pasted on the upper cover: "326" (repeated in Western numerals on fol.1a).Beginning as extant: نسخه مسمى بكنز اللغات وبتوفيق قادر وهاب مرتبت بترتيب حروف ... اكنون بدانكه پيش از شروع در مقصود لا بد است از دانستن مقدمات چند اول انكه درين كتاب بقدر الوسعEnd as extant : ميخواند يغز وغزا ميكند يتموOther text on the margin on a similar topic (also incomplete at the beginning), with first bāb extant: باب الالف مع الالف انى واني واني ساعت والجمع انا انّا دريافتن كقوله تعالى غير ناظرين اناه
Abstract: Treatise on the drawing of magical squares (with numbers, letters, words, etc.) in three sections (lawḥ). This text is also attributed to Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Yazdī (d. 858/1454).Binding note: Red leather over paper boards. Blind-stamped center and corner-pieces, with an outer frame consisting of two double-fillets.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 13).The name of the author appears at the beginning of the text (fol. 2a, l. 7) and in several squares, the latter in the form "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī" or "ʻamal Yaʻqūb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāʼūsī". See fol. 59a, 66a, 67b, 70a.Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red, with squares, tables and circles in red, black and yellow ink. A few tables are left blank. The text is framed within a gold, black and red border, with an outer frame made of a single blue fillet. Simple illuminated headpieces in red and gold on fol. 1b, 35b and 60b. Laid paper ; glossy.Incipit: حمدى بر وفق اعداد نا متناهى مقرون تسبيح افراد وازواج مكوّنات
Contents: صورة رقعة بخط مرحوم ميرزاكانى كه به ولد شهريارى كاشى نوشته (2أ) -- كتابت كه از جانب بندكان در كاه اعلى بجانب خواند كار در جواب او نوشته اند -- از زبان شاه قلى سلطان بدين محمد خان او ز يك نوشته (3ب) -- فتحنامه خراسان (5ب) -- مكتوبى كه نواب قاضى جهان بنواب خانى در باب نواب علامى نوشته (14أ) -- از جانب نواب كامياب بنواب عاليجاه خواندكار (18ب) -- ... انشاء جناب مير روح الله (30أ) -- ... -- تعريف پادشاه (49أ) -- تعريف ... از مولانا محتشم (50أ) -- تعريف از كمال اسمعيل -- انشاء جناب مير روح الله (50ب) -- كتابت كه حضرت شيخ ابو القاسم كازرونى بمولانا سلينى كه در هندست نوشته اند (59ب) -- انشاء نواب علامى امير سيد شريف (61أ) -- ... -- مولانا عبد الواسع بخواجه كمال الدين حسين نوشته (400أٔ) -- مولانا عبد الواسع بخواجه مجد الدين محمد نوشته (401أ) -- مولانا عبد الواسع بيكى از وزرا نوشته (401ب)
Abstract: Apparently autograph copy of a treatise in prose and verses on magic using numerals, astrology and the invocation of the names of God, comprising an introduction, seven chapters (bāb) and a conclusion (see description of content, fol. 7a). Incomplete at the beginning.Binding note: Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboards. The upper and lower covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla and an outer frame made of several fillets, with small round stamps on the inner edge. The envelope flap has the same outer frame with a mandorla on its point. Doublure made of blue and yellow decorated paper.Contents: Bāb 1 : Dar ṭarīq waḍʻ aʻdād fard al-fard in table of contents, fol. 7a: Dar ṭarīq waḍʻ fard al-fard.Contents: Bāb 2 : Dar ṭarīq waḍʻ zawj al-zawj in table of contents: Dar ṭarīq zawj al-zawj.Contents: Bāb 3 : Dar ṭarīq waḍʻ zawj al-fard in table of contents: Dar ṭarīq zawj al-fard.Contents: Bāb 4 : Dar kayfīyat-i waḍʻ-i asmā dar alwāḥ bi-ṭarīq muḍmar kah ānrā taksīr-i kabīr khvānan In table of contents: ... dar ashkāl bi-ṭarīq ....Contents: Bāb 5 : Dar kayfiyat-i taksīr-i saghīr.Contents: Bāb 6 : Dar kayfiyat-i waḍʻ-i asmā dar ashkāl bi-ṭarīq muẓhar kah ānrā dhū al-kitābah khvānand.Contents: Bāb 7 : Dar sharf-i kawākib wa-sharḥ wa-kayfīyat-i aʻmāl-i ān.Ms. codex.Title from beginning of text (fol. 7a, l. 3).For the date 608 H. associated with the author, see fol. 1a, l. 2-3. al-Būnī (Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, d. 622/1225) is quoted in the text. However Ḥajjī Khalīfah mentions a Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ilyās al-Ḥanafī, fl. 912/1506 or 7 (ed. Fluegel, vol. III, p. 190, no. 4872).15 lines per page. Poetry in two columns. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Paper with laid lines visible (frame-ruled, 102 mm.). Contains magic squares and tables. A few marginal notes. Foliation using Arabic numerals (starts with "4" on fol. 2a). On fol. 175b : several inscriptions and magical tables. On a piece of paper pasted on the lower cover, inscription in Arabic: "(al-jafr al-ḥarfī) Miftāḥ al-maqāṣid bi-al-Fārisīyah qaṭʻ al-thaman al-kabīr al-masṭarah 15 khaṭṭ Fārisī katabahu Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ilyās sanah 609 (909 lā 609)".On the pastedown of the upper cover, small label with the inscription "12" in Arabic numerals ; label with the inscription: "ELS no. next line, in Arabic characters Miftāḥ al-maqāṣid next line, in Arabic characters fārisī next line, in Western numerals 909". Same label on the pastedown of the lower cover, adding "ELS no. 110".Copied by the author Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ilyās, on 4 Shawwāl 609 (colophon, fol. 175a). According to a label on the pastedown of the upper cover and a note on a paper pasted on the lower cover, this should be read as 909. This later date appears to be more likely.Incipit: كه مدّت بيست(؟) سال در اقطار عالم مسافرت كردم وبخدمت بسياري از كمال(؟) اولياExplicit: (الهى تا دانى بنرياد برس(؟
Abstract: Leaf from the Manāfiʻ al-ḥayawān, with a miniature depicting two crows, one of which stands on a rock, and a fruiting tree in the background.Ms. leaf.Title from heading.Physical description: 13 lines per page; written in medium naskh in black on tan Arabic paper. Text framed in double red lines. Rubrication and catchwords. Heading in large, dark blue Kufic script. Lower outer corner repaired. On verso is a miniature measuring 110 x 96 mm.Origin: According to Moghadam, the leaf is from the late 13th century; likely from Iran.
Contents: 1. leaves 1b-52b: Nahr al-faṣāḥah. Treatise on correct diction in Persian.Contents: 2. leaves 53b-128b: Chār sharbat. Treatise on Persian prosody and composition; incomplete at end.Ms. codex.Description based on Martinovitch catalog.Origin: 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1219 H 19 February 1805 (leaf 52b).
Abstract: Two texts on astrology and astronomy by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-stamped fillets; water damaged.Contents: "1. fol. 3a-53a: Sharḥ-i S̲amarah-i Baṭlamyūs. Persian translation of and commentary on an Arabic version of Ptolemy's CentiloquiumContents: a collection of a hundred aphorisms on astrology. With original Arabic text; missing first page."Contents: "2. fol. 54a-130a: Risālah-i Muʻīnīyah dar ʻilm-i hayʾat. Manual of astronomy dedicated to Muʻīn al-Dīn Abū al-ShamsContents: son of the author's patron Nāṣir al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Abī Manṣūr (governor of Quhistan). Missing first page; with numerous diagrams."Ms. composite codex.Title of first text from fol. 1a, by a later hand; title of second text from fol. 54a.On front cover: Label reading "284" in Arabic script.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on first flyleaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 15-16 lines per page; written in casual nastaʻliq by two different hands in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some damp staining; edges somewhat ragged.Origin: First text completed Ramaḍān 935 H May-June 1529 by Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥasanī (fol. 53a). Second text completed on Wednesday, 7 Rabīʻ II 681 H 15 July 1282 (fol. 130a).
Abstract: Collection of three Zoroastrian texts, one of which contains fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.Binding note: European-style full brown leather with gold-stamped fillets and gold stamping on spine.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-60a: Ṣad dar.Contents: 2. fol. 62b-121b: Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah.Contents: 3. fol. 123a-208a: Dar shāyast va nashāyast.Ms. codex.On spine: "Ardai Veraf Namah" in Western script tooled in gold.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on unglazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2 in two columns and framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and insect damage; edges ragged. Binding is loose and some gatherings are detached. Text 2 has fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.