Loose leaf copy of portions of a book of prayers divided by day. This copy contains parts of prayers said on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and is in catchword order, though leaves are missing. Some leaves have been replaced in a different hand, on modern, lined paper (text is written perpendicular to the lines).
Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah, the first sūrah of the Qurʼān. The leaves are both blank on the verso, are written on thin paper and have been remounted onto machine-made paper.
Illuminated and illustrated copy of Niẓāmī's collection of 5 poetic works; four dual-page illuminations, many illuminated headers and 24 full-page illustrations including two sets of scenes covering the full page-opening (f. 2v-3r, 370v-371r).
Large format, illuminated copy of prayers from Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan and the Duʻāʼ al-Sayfī, attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. The copy is dedicated to Qāʼit Bāy, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1496). The first page of text gives the transmitter as Muḥammad ibn Zayn al-ʻArab Sharafshāh al-Ḥusaynī (p. [4]).
Collection of Jāmī's poems and prose writings. A table of contents has been written in (f. 1r) and some titles have been added by a later hand in black ink on the gold cartouches in the headpieces before each new work.
Loose leaf copy of a small portion of the Qurʼān, 9 leaves, verses 87-185 of al-Baqarah (2:87-185) along with 4 leaves containing portions of the first Maqāmāh of al-Ḥarīrī.
Composite manuscript containing 8 works and pages of notations, written in at least three hands. The majority of the works are related to Ḥadīth and other anecdotes related to Muḥammad and other prophets. Some of the paper is machine made; the flyleaves and blank pages have also been covered in notes; some pages have been removed.
Khamsah (or Quintet), poems written by Jamal al-din Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Mu'ayyad, usually know by the pen name, Nizami. The greatest Persian poet, he spent most of his life (b. 575-613H [1141-1146 CE]; d. 575-623H [1180-217CE]) in Ganja, (former Elizabehtpol), present-day Azerbayjan. This copy, without its original cover, comprises 359 folios, with two-double paged illumination interleaved with a double-page frontispiece paingtin showing throne scene, and with a double-page finispiece painting showing a banquet. Every one of the five poems begins with an elaborate title heading, and ends with a carpet page and a place for a colophon. The manuscript is written in nasta'liq script and has twenty-seven paintings. Copied in Shira, Iran, by Qasim Katib (uncertain) in teh months of Muharram to Jumada II, 992 H [1584 CE].
Khamsah (or Quintet), poems written by Jamal al-din Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Mu'ayyad, usually know by the pen name, Nizami. The greatest Persian poet, he spent most of his life (b. 575-613H [1141-1146 CE]; d. 575-623H [1180-217CE]) in Ganja, (former Elizabehtpol), present-day Azerbayjan. This copy, without its original cover, comprises 359 folios, with two-double paged illumination interleaved with a double-page frontispiece paingtin showing throne scene, and with a double-page finispiece painting showing a banquet. Every one of the five poems begins with an elaborate title heading, and ends with a carpet page and a place for a colophon. The manuscript is written in nasta'liq script and has twenty-seven paintings. Copied in Shira, Iran, by Qasim Katib (uncertain) in teh months of Muharram to Jumada II, 992 H [1584 CE].
Khamsah (or Quintet), poems written by Jamal al-din Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Mu'ayyad, usually know by the pen name, Nizami. The greatest Persian poet, he spent most of his life (b. 575-613H [1141-1146 CE]; d. 575-623H [1180-217CE]) in Ganja, (former Elizabehtpol), present-day Azerbayjan. This copy, without its original cover, comprises 359 folios, with two-double paged illumination interleaved with a double-page frontispiece paingtin showing throne scene, and with a double-page finispiece painting showing a banquet. Every one of the five poems begins with an elaborate title heading, and ends with a carpet page and a place for a colophon. The manuscript is written in nasta'liq script and has twenty-seven paintings. Copied in Shira, Iran, by Qasim Katib (uncertain) in teh months of Muharram to Jumada II, 992 H [1584 CE].
Several handwritten manuscript pages, 658-661, containing the poetry of Saadi from his book, "Ghazaliat". Pages one through four are numbered as 2006-24-2.1a/1b and 2006-24-2.2a/2b. Pages five through eight are also handwritten manuscript pages, numbered 702-705, containing Saadi's poetry from his book "Rubiyat". They are numbered as 2006-24-2.3a/3b and 2006-24-2.4a/4b. Saadi is a well known Persian poet from Shiraz who composed his work sometime around 656 A.M., lunar calendar. The manuscript is undated.
Persian. Front piece and three double pages illumination. Lacquer (bl)covered with inlaid medallion. The writing of Sultan Mahmut.No. 7 Persian. Khamsah by Amir Khosraw. Size 12.25 x 7.5 and 8 x 4.5 in. Folios 182. Written in small Nastaliq. 20 lines to a page, in four columns. 8 immams. Gold ruled margins. Cream color paper. Old lacquer binding, outside decorated with medalions. Date and name of the calligrapher folio 181 a - finished by sultan Mohammad Tabiandi in Rajab (month) 1041 A.H. (February 1632)Khamasah or "The Five (poems)" by Amir Khorsrow Dihlawi (from Dehli). the greatest persian poet of India (1253-1325). It was written in imitation of the Khamash of the famous Persian poet Nizami (1140-1202). There are in this MS. 4 poems only; the fifth (Shirin wa Khosraw) is missing.Arrangement as follows:pp. 2b - 46b, Matla al-Anwar. The rising of the lights, a moral person. pp. 47b - 8a, Majuim wa Laila, love story of Majuim and his beloved Laila, of 2 Bedouin tribes.pp. 80b - 123a. Haaht Bihisht, the Eight Paradies, a poem of the loves of the King Behram.pp. 123b - 181a., Ainahi Sikandari, the mirro of Alexander a poetical legendary history of Alexander the Great.
