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Baillie, Anne, 1809-1847 (Former owner of manuscripts)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1809 - 1847

Biography

Anne Baillie (1809-1847) was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Baillie of Leys (1772-1833), Member of Parliament and East India Company Official, and his second wife "Lulu Begum", a lady of high standing from the court of Awadh, who entered the marriage with her own fortune. Anne was born in India, baptized at Lucknow, and later brought to Scotland for her education. She married John Frederick Baillie of Dochfour and had two sons, John Baillie (1835-1890) and Alexander (1837-1917). Anne was the main heir upon her father's death, despite John having older sons by an earlier marriage. She inherited Leys Castle in Invernesshire and its lands, with the Lucknow jewels of her mother and the Arabic and Persian manuscript collection that her father had brought back from South Asia entailed as heirlooms. Anne and her husband are said to have lived a "... retired domestic life.." at Leys Castle "... planting and improving the surrounding grounds." (John Mitchell, Reminiscences of my life in the Highlands, vol.1. Newton Abbot, David &Charles Reprints, 1971, p. 60.) For further information see Alexander Charles Baillie, Call of Empire from the Highlands to Hindostan. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, chapter 16.

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اسماء الله الحسنی Asmā' Allāh al-ḥusná, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 66
Scope and Contents

These are the 99 names of God in Arabic, written in bold naskh, with their meaning in Persian in nasta'līq, in red ink.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

اشعار مختلف Ash'ār-i mukhtalif, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 113
Scope and Contents

Contains short selections from miscellaneous poems. A few of the ghazals, etc., are in Urdū. The most favoured poet seems to be "Walī", who was the first to attempt to write a dīvān in the Urdu language.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

اقبال نامهٔ جهانگیری Iqbāl-nāmah-i Jahāngīrī, 1189 A.H., 1775 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 80
Scope and Contents

A history of the life and reign of Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (1569-1627).

Dates: 1189 A.H.; 1775 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

اکبرنامه Akbar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 78
Scope and Contents

The well-known history of the Emperor Akbar the Great, by his favourite Prime Minister and Secretary, Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l " 'Allāmī " b. Shaykh Mubārak Nāgūrī. The author was in his time the most learned and elegant writer in the East.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

الاسعاف في شرح شواهد القاضي والکشّاف al-Is'āf fī sharḥ shawāhid al-qāḍī wa-al-kashshāf vol. 1, 1192 A.H., 1778 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 3
Scope and Contents A complete commentary on the "proof verses" of the Qur'ān, cited by Jār-allāh Maḥmud al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538 A.H., 1143 C. E.), in his commentary on the Qur'ān called al-Kashshāf, and Nasīr al-Dīn 'Abd-allāh b. 'Umar al-Bayḍawī in his Qur'ānic commentary. The present work was compiled by Hadr b. 'Atā-allāh (see the last verse on fol. 6325), accordīng to a chronogram at the end of the book, in 974 A.H. (1566 C.E.). All the verses adopted by al-Zamakhsharī are inscribed in red,and those of...
Dates: 1192 A.H.; 1778 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

الاسعاف في شرح شواهد القاضي والکشّاف al-Is'āf fī sharḥ shawāhid al-qāḍī wa-al-kashshāf vol. 2, 1192 A.H., 1778 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 2
Scope and Contents A complete commentary on the "proof verses" of the Qur'ān, cited by Jār-allāh Maḥmud al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538 A.H., 1143 C. E.), in his commentary on the Qur'ān called al-Kashshāf, and Nāṣīr al-Dīn 'Abd-allāh b. 'Umar al-Bayḍawī in his Qur'ānic commentary. The present work was compiled by Hadr b. 'Atā-allāh (see the last verse on fol. 632b), according to a chronogram at the end of the book, in 974 A.H. (1566 C.E.). All the verses adopted by al-Zamakhsharī are inscribed in red, and those of...
Dates: 1192 A.H.; 1778 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

الاشباه والنظائر الفقهیه علی مذهب الحنفیه al-Ashbāh wa-al-naḍā'ir al-fiqhiyyah 'alá madhhab al-Ḥanafiyyah, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 10
Scope and Contents

A work on the Ḥanafī school of Islamic jurisprudence (includīng tenets and practice). The author is described as Zayn b. Najīm al-Ḥanafī, whose full name, as mentioned in other works, is Zain al-'Ābidīn b. Ibrāhīm b. Najīm al-Miṣrī (d. 969 or 970 A.H., 1561 or 1562 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

التّخبیر في علوم التّفسیر al-Takhbīr fī 'ulūm al-tafsīr, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 384
Scope and Contents

A fragment of Abū al-Faḍl Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭi al-Shāf'ī's (d. 911 A.H., 1505-06 C.E.) work on the sciences of Qur'ānic exegesis, composed 872 A.H. (1467-1468 C.E.) and afterwards included in his most famous work al-Itiqān fī 'ulūm al-Qur'ān. It is divided into eighty sections. The present copy (54 folios in total) breaks abruptly off already in the eighteenth.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

الجامع لقوی الادویه والاغذیه al-Jāmi' liquwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 25
Scope and Contents

A dictionary of simple medicaments, originally compiled by Ḍiyā al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad b. 'Abd-allāh b. Aḥmad al-Mālikī al-Ashshāb, known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (d. 646 A.H., 1248 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

الدر النشیر (ملخص کتاب النهایة في غریب الحدیث) al-Durr al-nashīr (mulkhkhaṣ Kitāb al-nihāyah fī gharīb al-ḥadīth), 907 A.H., 1501 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 5
Scope and Contents This is an abridged form of the Kitāb al-nihāyah fī gharīb al-ḥadīs, a dictionary to the Traditions.The abridgement was made by Jalāl al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān Suyūṭī in 907 A.H., 1501 C.E., about four years before his death; al-Nihāyah itself was written by Majd al-Dīn Abū Sa'ādah Mubārak b. Abū al-Karam al-Jazarī, commonly known as Ibn al-Ashīr (d. 606 A.H., 1209 C.E.). The work also includes Suyūṭī's comments upon his...
Dates: 907 A.H.; 1501 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia