Cream laid paper with watermarks. 19.9 x 14.3 cm.Bound with: al-Taʻarruf / lil-Kalābādhī.MS Arab 225. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish and Persian.
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Naskh and Nastaʻlīq in various hands.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.
Translated by Muḥammad Bāqir Khurāsānī Biranjirdī (?) in 1223 [1808] in Hyderabad Deccan for Henry Russell.Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.Title from double title page (f. 4v).30.6 x 23 cm. (21 x 13 cm.)Cream laid paper. Cloth binding.MS Persian 11. 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).
A wedding invitation to celebrate the marriage of Aḥmad ʻAlī Khān Bahādur addressed to Dr. George Ranken of the East India Company and his wife Lady Agnes Allan Ranken. The invitation is on red paper, written in Persian, and the script in painted gold leaf. Accompanied by an envelope with a personal stamp of the sender addressed to Dr. Ranken.
Iran Jewett manuscript no. 7.MS Persian 101. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian with quotations in Arabic.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
A work on subtleties of Persian vocabulary. Discusses nuances of and differences in meaning between homographs or near-homographs and words derived from similar stems. Pronunciations, etymologies, differences in usage discussed. Poems used as examples.Title from f. 2r.Table of contents on inner front cover and f. 1r.Written in naskh script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Notes in margins. Catchwords.8.4 x 6.1 cm (5.4 x 3.6 cm).Polished light-cream laid paper, boards covered with pale yellowish paper. Brown leather on edges and spine, envelope flap.MS Turk 4. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Written in two columns, 14 lines per page, in a divani script in black ink, framed within double golden and blue lines. With catchwords on the verso of each leaf.There are illuminated double title page, and 5 nearly full-page miniatures. Caption bands are in gold and colors.Bound in leather with boards. Upper cover lacquered with bird and flowers on outside, miniature inside. Lower cover is blind-tooled black leather over board. Binding has been repaired.The ms is probably from 18th or 19th century.Oblong seal on fol. 1r.Thin cream laid paper. Paper size: 15 x 9.5 cm. (text size: 10.7 x 5.5 cm.).Persian literature.Persian poems.MS Persian 22. 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).
Title supplied by cataloger.9 lines written in black framed within double red lines. On the obverse is a miniature of ʻAlī, on the reverse the horoscope is drawn in red ink.One leaf fragment from a Persian manuscript.Paper. 15.5 x 12 cm. (10.5 x 7.7 cm.).MS Persian 26. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.