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.