Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and some overlining in red; some pages folded over; catchwords. First work: Cursive Naskh; 14 lines in written area 16 x 9 cm.; second work: Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16.5 x 9.5 cm. First work: Cursive Naskh; second work: Nastaʻliq. Astronomical drawings throughout in red and black. Folio 1b-26a; Folio 27b-43a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M305. Binding: blue grain over cardboard sides, dark blue cloth spine.Manuscript.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 897Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest 19th century ; binding likely mid to late 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- b. Slip with note "Persian Manuscripts (Heyworth Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owen notes" -- c. Scrap from catalog of law books in French [all no longer in volume].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 46Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) though not flush with text block, etc. ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted European laid paper ; upper and lower covers blind-tooled in mitred-panel style, with outer border and inner panel stained to a dark brown ; spine blind-stamped with narrow bands and floral motifs ; edges of text block blue-flecked ; sewn in white thread over two cords (not recessed, visible as ridges at spine, flexible sewing) ; worked endbands, quite narrow ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, staining, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct, some curving) and chain lines spaced roughly 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal, curving), cream in color, thin and quite transluscent though sturdy, lightly burnished ; flyleaves in European laid paper with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of Fortune (figure standing on ball holding banner aloft) and "VAN GELDER ZONEN" (compare Heawood no.1365), sturdy, cream in color.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 8 IV(73), IV-1 (80), ii ; exclusively quaternions ; final leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "همه شب بیدار بود بر بستر نرم خفت"Incipit: [Ṭūṭīʹnāmah] "بعد از جنس جنس ثنا و صفت پیدا کنندۀ آسمان و زمین کیفیت و حقیقت این است که داستان و قصه ها و حکایات گفتۀ حضرت نخشبی رحمت الله علیه که در طوطی نامه بعبارت سخت و دقیق نوشته بودند از برای مفصل و بیان وار معلوم شدن همه مردمان محمد خدواند قادری اصلح الله شانه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.4. p.156-160 : [mainly blank].3. p.84-p.155 : [Ṭūṭīʹnāmah] / Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī ; Muḥammad Qādirī.2. p.83 : [blank].1. p.4-p.82 : [Persian alphabetic and grammatical exercises ].Fine copy of the Ṭūṭīʹnāmah of Shaykh Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (d.1350) in the reduced and simplified version of Muḥammad Khudavānd Qādirī (fl. 17th cent.), preceded by a selection of alphabetic and grammatical exercises with dialogues.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color laid paper of varying thickness, with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords on versos. Nastaʻliq; 14-16 lines in written area approximately 18 x 9.5 cm. Folios 1a-200b Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 62. Limp red leather binding; originally with embossed gold medallions in center and at four corners from which the gold has now been rubbed off. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.Manuscript.