Binding: Half leather.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Ghazalīyāt, Fardīyāt, Mukhammas, and Rubāʻīyāt.Dimensions: 22.6 × 14 cm (size of leaf).Hand: Nastaʻlīq small shikasta on field of page and around margins; brownish Indian paper.Record origin: Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.
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
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Carpet page, miniatures, borders. Map drawn on lower flyleaf.Hand: Distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Binding: Lacquered boards with floral decoration.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Miniatures, borders, unwan.Hand: Very clear and beautiful Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Popular textbook of astronomy written in Samarqand in 1458 by Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alā’ al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī (أبو القاسم علاء الدين علي بن محمد القوشجي; d. 1474).The text contains 22 diagrams in red and black ink (ff. 2r, 2v, 3r, 5r, 11r, 14r, 15v, 17r, 21v, 23r, 26v, 32v, 33r, 34r, 34v and 44r).Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):الحمد لله رب العالمين و حمد الشاكرين وصلوة والسلمعلى خير خلقه محمد وآله آجمعين أما بعد اين كتابيست مشتمل بر مقدمهودو مقاله ...Ends (f. 46r, lines 2-4):... وبسيت ودو برابرقطر زمين است واصغر توابت مرصوده بسيت وسهبرابر جرم زمين تست والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلمColophon (f. 46r, lines 5-6):تمت الرسالة بعون الملكالجليلFf. 1v-46r
Treatise on practical astronomy (تقويم) divided into thirty sections (سي فصل) composed in 658/1260 (see Amīn,
Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, p. 233) by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي, d. 1274). The full title of the work is
Sī faṣl dar ma‘rifat-i taqvīm(سي فصل در معرفت تقويم).The text contains thirteen complete diagrams and tables (ff. 58v, 60r, 61r, 63r, 63v, 64r, 68r, 69r, 69v, 70r, 71v, 72r, and 72v), with an unfilled space for a further diagram (f. 68v), and a table into which no data has been entered (f. 70v).The copy was completed on 25 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1055/11 February 1646 (see colophon, f. 77r, lines 18-19, transcribed below).Begins (f. 56v, lines 10-12):الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلم على خير خلقهمحمد وآله أجمعين وبعد اين مختصر يست در معرفتتقويم مشتمل بر سي فصل ...Ends (f. 77r, lines 13-17):... اما در بيع منصرف از سعديودر شرى بايد كه متصل بسعدي بود وبرين قاس ومادرين مختصر بد ينقدر اختيار كنيم پساکر کسى زياده ازين خواهد بحوع بهكتب مبسوطه اين علم كند واللهاعلمColophon (f. 77r, lines 18-19):... تمام شد بتاريخ 25ذي الحجة سنة 1055Ff. 56v-77r
The Zīj, or tables of astronomical calculations,produced by Ulugh Beg (1394-1449). This copy lacks the introduction and explanatory material and contains only the tables themselves.Folio 68r contains a diagram apparently unrelated to the texts before or after it.ff 68v-135v
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Carpet pages, decorative borders, ten miniatures.Dimensions: 10⅜ × 7⅛ in.Hand: Large and very distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Binding: Lacquered boards with floral decoration.Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. 8 miniatures. Floral borders.Dimensions: 13 × 8½ in.Hand: Small Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. Miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 12⅞ × 7⅞ in.Hand: Small Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
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