Title from f. 1r.According to colophon (f. 60v), copy completed in Tabrīz in Rajab 551 AH [August 1156 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad al-Ardabīlī.Written in two columns, from 16 to 18 lines per page, in black ink. Each column framed within double golden or grey now faded lines.There is numerous aniconic headpieces in colors and gold and 16 miniatures.On inside back cover: "Purchased for Philip Hofer in Tehran as an example of 12th century illumination and presented as such to the Harvard College Library. Subsequently doubts arose as to its authenticity and it was submitted to experts for examination."Persian poems.MS Typ 1016. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
According to the colophon (f. 117v), copy completed in the hand of ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Yazdī in 1240 AH [December 1824-5 AD].The text is followed by a short text with the title "Suʼāl" (p. 118r-121r), written by the same scribe.Written in one column, 24 lines per page, in black and red ink, framed within triple golden and grey lines. First leave illuminated.Bound in black leather, gilt.MS Persian 36. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Gift of the United States Naval Academy, January 25, 1931.Ownership statement by al-Sayyid ʻUbayd Allāh Muḥammad b. al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá. Seal of the same person reads Muḥammad ʻUbayd Allāh.MS Arab 12. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic, Persian and Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).Table of Contents: 1. Tarih-i Al-i Osman bin Ertuğrul (dates of Ottoman Sultans) (f. 1r) -- 2. Suret-i arzname (ff. 1v--2v) -- 3. Arabic poem, awāʼil Muḥarram 804 [August 11-20, 1401] (copied by Ḥājjī Aḥmad ibn ... al-B.f.l.ghānī) (ff. 3r-11r) -- 4. Taʻrīfāt ʻilm usūl fiqh, Shawwāl 804 [May 1402] (ff. 11v-16v) -- 5. Arabic glossary (explanations in Arabic and Persian), 804 [1402] (copied by Idrīs b. Ḥasan b. Bayram) (ff. 17r-52r) -- 6. Sharḥ al-Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah / ʻAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Hamadānī al-Tabrīzī, awāsiṭ Dhī al-Ḥijja 804 [July 1402] (copied by Idrīs b. Ḥasan b. Bayram) (ff. 52v-94r) -- 7. Lughat-i ḥurūf (ff. 94v-95r) -- 8. Mufradāt-i Pārsī (A list of Persian verbs) (ff. 95v-97v).
Written in one or two columns, 15 lines per page, in black and red.One of the works dated 1182 AH [1768 AD] according to colophon (f. 43r) and the other 1171 AH [1757 AD]. Copied by Ghulām Khālid walad-i Shaykh Karīm (or Karam)-bakhsh ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad Shafīʻ, who was also the owner of the book.A note on f. 102r dated 1226 AH [1811 AD], followed by a seal that reads ʻIzzat ʻAlī, 1226.MS Persian 40. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian and Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).Table of Contents: 1. Badīʻ al-niṣāb / Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (ff. 2v-11v) -- 2. Niṣāb-i ikhwān / Mawlānā Muṭahhar (ff. 12v-15v) -- 3. Nuskhah-ʼi ikhwān (ff. 16r-21v) -- 4. Niṣāb-i nuzhat al-ṣibyān / ʻAbd al-Majīd (ff. 22r-43r) -- 5. Nān va ḥalvā / Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻĀmilī (ff. 44r-55r) -- 6. Poems (ff. 56v-103v).
Copy completed in the hand of Muḥammad Hāshim al-Ṭāyir in 1094 [1683].Iran Jewett manuscript no. 2.MS Persian 102. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Portions of text underlined or punctuated in redCommentary finished in Muḥarram 917 AH [1511 AD].According to colophon (ff. 88v), copy completed in the hand of Dawlat Muḥammad ibn Fatḥ Muḥammad Aḥmadābādī on 12 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1072 AH [Nov. 5, 1661 AD].MS Persian 87. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
According to colophon (f. 64v), copy completed in the hand of Fatḥ Muḥammad walad Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh Sahrandī (?) on Muḥarram 25 (the year is not given).Written in one column, 15 lines per page, in black and red.MS Persian 88. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in one column, from 19 (ff. 1r-92v) to 21 (ff. 93r-114v) lines per page, in black now faded and red.According to the colophon (f. 115r), copy completed on 17 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 649 AH [September 5, 1251 AD] in Qūnyah [Konya] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn K.mār (?) al-Mūqānī (?).Ownership statement on f. 1r: "li-Sayyid Sulaymān al-mudarris bi-Madrasat Ḥamza Bek fī Brūsah."MS Arab 16. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic and Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سبحان الذي اخلص الانسان بالنطق من عالم الجماد والعجماء ... :Incipitكتبه الحقير الى رحمة الفقير محمد رجائي غفر الله له ولوادية ولمن دعا لكاتبه بالخير. :ColophonWritten in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.According to colophon, copied in the hand of Muḥammad Rajāʼī.MS Arab 401. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic with examples in Persian.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
