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Or Ms 139: الصراح من الصحاح al-Ṣurah min al-ṣaḥah (volume 1), 1227-1230 A.H., 1812-1815 C.E.
A dictionary of Arabic words explained in Persian, being a translation (completed, 681 A.H., 1282 C.E.) of the famous Arabic dictionary entitled al-Ṣaḥah, of Abū Naṣr Ismā'il b. Ḥammād Jawharī, d. 398 A.H., 1007 C.E.), by Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad b. 'Umar b. Khālid, commonly called "Jamāl al-Qurashī." The work is across two volumes, Or Ms 139 and 140.
Or Ms 140: الصراح من الصحاح al-Ṣurah min al-ṣaḥah (volume 2), 1227-1230 A.H., 1812-1815 C.E.
A dictionary of Arabic words explained in Persian, being a translation (completed, 681 A.H., 1282 C.E.) of the famous Arabic dictionary entitled al-Ṣaḥah, of Abū Naṣr Ismā'il b. Ḥammād Jawharī, d. 398 A.H., 1007 C.E.), by Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad b. 'Umar b. Khālid, commonly called "Jamāl al-Qurashī." The work is across two volumes, OR MS 139 and 140.
Or Ms 141: منتخب اللغات شاهجهانی Muntakhb al-lughāt-i Shāhjahānī, undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)
A well-known dictionary of Arabic words explained in Persian. It was compiled, according to the chronogram muntkhab-i bī dil, 1046 A.H. (1636-1637 C.E.) and dedicated to the Mughal Emperor Shāhjahān, by 'Abd al-Rashīd b. 'Abd al-Ghafūr al-Ḥusaynī al-Madanī al-Tatawī (still alive, 1069 A.H., 1659 C.E.).
Or Ms 142: هفت قلزوم Haft qulzum (volume 1), 1237 A.H., 1822 C.E.
A dictionary and grammar of the Persian language, by His Majesty Ghazī al-Dīn Haydar Khān Bahādūr, the first King of Oudh, (d. 1243 A.H., 1827 C.E.). See OR MS 135 and 136 for his correspondance. The present work is across two volumes OR MS 142-143.
Or Ms 143: هفت قلزوم Haft qulzum (volume 2), 1237 A.H., 1822 C.E.
A dictionary and grammar of the Persian language, by His Majesty Ghazī al-Dīn Haydar Khān Bahādūr, the first King of Oudh, (d. 1243 A.H., 1827 C.E.). See OR MS 135 and 136 for his correspondance. The present work is across two volumes OR MS 142-143.
Or Ms 330: نفائس الفنون فی عرائس العيون Nafāʼis al-funūn fī ‘arāʼis al-‘uyūn, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.
An encyclopaedia of one hundred and sixty different sciences known to Muslims, compiled by Shī‘ī scholar Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al- ‘Āmulī (d. 753 A.H., 1352 C.E.). Illuminated frontispiece.
Or Ms 360: لغت فارسی Lughat-i Fārsī, undated
An incomplete Persian lexicon with explanations in Persian, arranged in alphabetical order.
This manuscript is the first volume (see Or. Ms. 361 for vol. 2).
Or Ms 361: لغت فارسی Lughat-i Fārsī, undated
An incomplete Persian lexicon with explanations in Persian, arranged in alphabetical order.
This manuscript is the second volume (see Or. Ms. 360 for vol. 1).
Or Ms 415: خلاصة الاطبّاء حميد خانى Khulāṣat al-Aṭibbā-i Ḥamīdkhānī, undated
An incomplete thesaurus of the science of medicine.
Or Ms 418: کشف اللّغات والاصطلاحات Kashf al-lughāt wa al-iṣṭilāḥāt, undated (original text compiled 16th Cent. C.E.)
A famous Persian dictionary, chiefly for the purpose of explaining the terminology of the Sufis, by ‘Abd al-Raḥīm bin Aḥmad Sūr, of Bihar, who flourished about 950 A.H., 1543 C.E.
Written by various hands. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) for details.