Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection)
Biography
John B. Baillie of Leys bequeathed 165 Arabic and Persian manuscripts - the collection of John Baillie, his grandfather - to the University Library in 1876.
Found in 167 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 412: نظام التّواریخ Niẓam al-tāwārīkh, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 413: حالات آصف خانان Ḥālāt-i Āṣaf-Khānān, undated
![Illuminated excerpt of the Mahābhārata scroll [Please click twice to see the full scroll]](https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size3/UoEsha~4~4/492/0148505c.jpg)
Or Ms 510: Mahābhārata, illustrated manuscript scroll, 1795 C.E.
آئینه حق نماء Ā'īnah-i ḥaqnamā', undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)
احوال اولادو جائداد سید احمد ساندوی Aḥwāl-i Aulād-u Ja'idād-i Sayyid Aḥmad Sāndwī, 1230 A.H., 1814 C.E.
This work was compiled by 'Alī Naqī Khān, under instructions from the Governor-General of India, to clear up certain complications which had arisen in regard to the disposal of the estate in Oudh in the possession of the descendants of Sayyid Aḥmad Sāndwī.
اخلاق محسنی Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī, 1216 A.H., 1801 C.E.
This is a well-known work on ethics, by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).
اخلاق ناصری Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī, 1146 A.H., 1735 C.E.
A famous treatise on ethics, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī, known as Naṣīr-i Ṭūsī, who was born, 597 A.H. (1201 C.E.) and died, 672 A.H. (1274 C.E.).
اخوان الصفا Ikhwān al-ṣafā, 1227 A.H., 1812 C.E.
The first twenty of the philosophical treatises of the Ikhwan al-ṣafa (Brethren of Purity) on the dispute between the animals and man. Printed volume.
اسکندر نامهٔ برّی Iskandar-nāmah-i barrī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
اسماء الله الحسنی Asmā' Allāh al-ḥusná, undated
These are the 99 names of God in Arabic, written in bold naskh, with their meaning in Persian in nasta'līq, in red ink.