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Or Ms 182: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāyah-yi Fārsī (vol. iv), undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 182
Scope and Contents A copy of the fourth and last volume of the Hidāya, a celebrated treatise on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the doctrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 150 A.H., 767 C.E.) and his disciples Abū Yūsuf and Imām Muḥammad, the original work being in Arabic.It is a commentary on the Badāyat al-Mubtadā' by Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn 'Alī b. Abū Bakr al-Marghīnānī, who was born in Transoxania, and died at the age of 64, 593 A.H.,...
Dates: undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 183: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāya-'i Fārsī (vol. iv), undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 183
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A copy of the fourth and last volume of the Hidāya, a celebrated treatise on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the doctrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah and his disciples Abū Yūsuf and Imām Muḥammad, the original work being in Arabic.


The current copy includes seven chapters and is bound in stamped leather.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 184: هدايهٔ فارسی (جلد چهارم) Hidāyah-yi Fārsī (vol . iv), undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 184
Scope and Contents A partial copy of the fourth and last volume of the Hidāya, a celebrated treatise on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the doctrine of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 150 A.H., 767 C.E.) and his disciples Abū Yūsuf and Imām Muḥammad, the original work being in Arabic.It is a commentary on the Badāyat al-Mubtadā' by Shaykh Burhān al-Dīn 'Alī b. Abū Bakr al-Marghīnānī, who was born in Transoxania, and died at the age of 64, 593 A.H., 1197 C.E.The...
Dates: undated (Persian translation of a work originally composed in Arabic, 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 185: تاريخ گزيده Ta'rīkh-i Guzīdah, 993 A.H., 1584 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 185
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A general history from the earliest times to 730 A.H. (1329 C.E.), the year, as it is stated in the preface, when it was compiled by Ḥamd-allāh b. 'Abī Bakr b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr Mustaufī Qazwīnī (d. 750 A.H., 1349 C.E.), and the present name, meaning "the select history" was given to it.


The first two pages and the frontispiece are richly illuminated; gold-lined throughout.

Dates: 993 A.H.; 1584 C.E.

Or Ms 186: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 1006 A.H., 1598 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 186
Scope and Contents A well-known general history in seven volumes, from the earliest times to the time of the author, Sayyid Muḥammad b. Burhān al-Dīn Khawand-Shāh (d. 903 A.H., 1498 C.E.). Most of the work was written by the author himself, but was completed by his grandson Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid al-Dīn Khwand-Amīr (d. 942 A.H., 1535 C.E.). This manuscript includes volumes 1-3 of the work, each with an illuminated frontispiece.At the beginning of the manuscript there is a contents page in...
Dates: 1006 A.H.; 1598 C.E.

Or Ms 187: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 999 A.H., 1591 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 187
Scope and Contents A well-known general history in seven volumes, from the earliest times to the time of the author, Sayyid Muḥammad b. Burhān al-Dīn Khawand-Shāh (d. 903 A.H., 1498 C.E.). Most of the work was written by the author himself, but was completed by his grandson Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid al-Dīn Khwand-Amīr (d. 942 A.H., 1535 C.E.). This manuscript includes volumes 4-5 of the work, each with an illuminated frontispiece. They feature in reverse order.For volumes 1-3 of this work,...
Dates: 999 A.H.; 1591 C.E.

Or Ms 188: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 999 A.H., 1591 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 188
Scope and Contents A well-known general history in seven volumes, from the earliest times to the time of the author, Sayyid Muḥammad b. Burhān al-Dīn Khawand-Shāh (d. 903 A.H., 1498 C.E.). Most of the work was written by the author himself, but was completed by his grandson Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāmid al-Dīn Khwand-Amīr (d. 942 A.H., 1535 C.E.). This manuscript includes volumes 6-7 of the work, each with an illuminated frontispiece.For volumes 1-3 of this work, from the collection of the same...
Dates: 999 A.H.; 1591 C.E.

Or Ms 189: مقاصد الاوليا فی محاسن الانبيا Maqāsid al-awliyā fi maḥāsin al-anbiyā, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 189
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An account of the Prophets from Ādam to Muḥammad, by Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad b. Abū al-Ḥasan Faryābī (d. 607 A.H., 1210 C.E.), or, as he is called by Ḥājī Khalfah, Farābī.


At the end there are appended very brief notes on the four great successors of Muḥammad, and the names of the Khalīfahs are also enumerated (after the Imāms Ḥasan and Ḥusayn) from Mu‘āwiyah to al-Mustanjid bi Allāh, who was the 32nd ‘Abbāsid Khalīfah (d. 566 A.H., 1171 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 190: معارج النبوة Ma'ārij al-nubuwwah, undated copy (original text compiled 15th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 190
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A detailed history of the Prophet Muḥammad, compiled by "Mu'īn al-Miskīn", Mu'īn al-Dīn b. Ḥājī Muḥammad Sharaf al-Dīn mal-Farāhī al-Harawī (d. c. 907 A.H., 1501 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text compiled 15th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 191: روضة الاحباب Rawz̤at al-aḥbāb, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 191
Scope and Contents A famous work, containing a full history of the Prophet Muḥammad, his birth, character, and actions, and also an account of his descendants, friends, disciples, and successors.It was completed in 900 A.H., 1494 C.E., by Amīr Sayyid ‘Aṭā-allāh (also known as Jamāl al-Husaynī) b. Muḥammad Faz̤l-allāh of Shīrāz. The whole work was divided into three maqṣads (books), of which this MS. contains only the introduction and the first ...
Dates: 1011 A.H.; 1602 C.E.

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Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859 (Scottish statesman and historian) 3
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Seton, Archibald, 1758-1818 (East India Company Official) 3
Raz̤wī, Sayyid Amīr ‘Alī, fl 1872 (Author, scribe) 2
Reid, James Robert, 1838-1908 (Administrator, British Raj) 2
Shīw-Bakhsh, fl 1759-1775 (scribe) 2
Thomson, James Edward, fl 1841-1874 (Soldier, East India Company and British Raj) 2
al-Dīn, Majd, fl 1614 (Scribe) 2
Ṣiddīqī, Shaykh Aḥmad-Baksh, fl 1783 (scribe) 2
'Shīrāzī, 'Ināyat-allāh, fl. 1556 (Scribe) 1
Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536 1
Aithippā (Scribe) 1
Al-Khālidī, Shāh-Malik b. Khwājah Khālid b. Khwājah ‘Abd al-Rahmān (also known as "Amīr-Qūzī") 1
Amrat-Rāi, fl 1774 (Scribe) 1
Anṣārī, Mullā Khān Muḥammad b. Shaykh Fatḥ Muḥammad, fl. 1707 (Scribe) 1
Armstrong, Andrew (Former owner of manuscript) 1
Aʿẓam, Muḥammad 1
Badr al-Dīn Hilālī Jughatāʾī (also known as Astarābādī) 1
Burgess, James, 1832-1916 (Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; Curator, University of Edinburgh Library) 1
Christison, Sir Alexander, 1828-1918 (Surgeon-General in North-West Provinces & Oudh, India) 1
Elbrecht, Casparus, fl 1770 (Former owner of manuscript) 1
Farīd, Mulla 1
Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn, Shaykh, fl 1770 (Scribe) 1
Ghulām Ḥusayn, fl 1804 (Scribe) 1
Graham, James, d 1805 (Field collector of manuscripts) 1
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Hidāyat-allāh, fl 1696 (Scribe) 1
Hunter, William, 1755-1812 (Surgeon, East India Company; Orientalist) 1
Hūl-Chand, fl 1691 (Scribe) 1
Ibn Ja‘far ‘Alī, Aḥmad ‘Alī 1
Ibn Khwājah Buzurg- Shāh al - Makhdūmiyyah al-Khwārazmiyyah, Mīr Shihāb al- Dīn (Scribe, Shaāhjahānābād, India) 1
Ibn Sayyid Mu‘īn al-Dīn al-Mūsawī, Muḥammad Murād, fl 1715 (Scribe) 1
Ibn Shaykh Ghulām Ḥusayn, Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī 1
Ilāhī-Bakhsh, Shaykh (Scribe, Patna, India) 1
Isfahānī, Mīr Ḥasan, fl 1828 (Scribe) 1
Ja'far b. Faz̤l-allāh al-Riz̤vī, fl 1598 C.E. (Scribe) 1
Khwāfī, Mīr Muḥammad Arshad (Scribe) 1
Khān, Muḥyi al-Dīn (Soldier, Scribe) 1
La‘l-Chand, fl 1732 (scribe, Shāhjahānābād (Dehlī), India) 1
Lāhūrī, Shaykh ʿAẓīm 1
Malan, A(?S) J (Former owner of manuscript) 1
Maḥmūd b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥusaynī al-Jāmī 1
Munro, Sir Hector, 1726-1805 (8th Laird of Novar; East India Company Army Officer) 1
Muḥammad, Nūr 1
Mūhan-La‘l, fl 1762 (Scribe) 1
Mūtī-La‘l (Owner, Scribe) 1
Mūtī-La‘l, fl 1791 (Scribe, Hazārī-bāgh, India) 1
Narsing-Dās, fl 1691 (Scribe) 1
Nūr ‘Alī (Scribe) 1
Qazvīnī, Murtaẓá Qulī, fl 1655 (Scribe) 1
Qāz̤ī, Shaykh Ni‘mat-Allāh 1
Rampini, Robert Fulton, 1844-1927 (East India Company Official) 1
Sayyid Aḥmad, fl 1695 (Scribe) 1
Scott, Andrew, c 1825-1870 (Professor of Oriental Languages at Aberdeen University) 1
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥafiẓ Shīrāzī 1
Shamsābādī, Sayyid 'Iwaz̤ 1
Shāh Shujāʿ al-Mulk Durrānī 1
Shāhānī, Mirzā Sayyid Muḥammad-Shāh, fl 1885 (scribe) 1
Shīrāzī, Hidāyat-allāh 1
Sulṭān Masʿūd b. Sulṭān Maḥmūd Hiravī 1
Swinton, George, 1780-1854 (Scribe; translator) 1
Tennant, William, 1784-1848 (Scholar of oriental languages and poet) 1
Turāb, Muḥammad, fl 1791 (Scribe, Sarangpur, India) 1
Van Cortland, Henry Charles, 1814-1888 (Soldier for Sikh Maharajas and British Raj) 1
Walad-i Amrjī Dīvān, Ranchhūrjī 1
Yūsuf, Muḥammad 1
Yūsuf, Muḥammad Qulī b. Muḥammad Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad, fl 1732 (Scribe) 1
al-Dīn, Muḥammad Badr (Scribe) 1
al-Gharshī, Muḥammad al-Dīn ‘Alī b. Ḥājī Khiẕr, fl 1615 (Scribe) 1
al-Hāshimī, Muḥammad Qāsim b. Muḥammad Sharīf, fl 1684 (Scribe) 1
al-Mūsawī, Mīr Muḥammad Aslam Zanjānī, fl 1772 (Scribe) 1
al-Shūstarī, Luṭf-Allāh b. Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ‘Abd-Allāh b. Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ni‘mat-Allāh al-Mūsavī al-Jazāʼirī (Scribe) 1
b. Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-Munshī al-Baghdādī, Sayyid Muḥammad 1
b. Farīdūn Parsī Iranī, Mihrbān, fl 1870 (scribe) 1
b. Shams al-Dīn, Shahr-Allāh (Scribe) 1
b. Shaykh Abī’l-Fayz̤ Dihlavī, Ḥāfiẓ Ghulām Ḥakīmah 1
b. Shaykh Muḥammad ‘Alī b. Shaykh Mihr ‘Alī Qurayshī Abbāsī al-Hāshimī, Ghulām Ḥusayn (Scribe) 1
b. Shaykh Ḥusayn, Ṭayyib (Scribe) 1
b. Sulaymān, Mawlānā Aḥmad (Scribe) 1
b. Ḥāfiẓ al-Mulk Ḥāfiẓ Rajab khān, Muḥammad Subḥān khān 1
b. Ḥājī Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Mayānī, Ḥājī Shams al-Dīn, fl 1653 (Scribe) 1
b. Ḥājī Yūsuf Shīrāzī, Muḥibb ‘Alī (Scribe) 1
Ḥusayn al-Dīn, Qāżī Muḥammad 1
Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Scribe) 1
Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Scribe) 1
Ṣiddīqī, Najīb-allāh 1
Ṣāhib-Singh, fl 1775 (Scribe) 1
Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad b. ‘Abd al-Qādir Sīhām, fl 1679 C.E. (Scribe) 1
‘Abd al-Jawwād (Hand | Scribe | Possible owner) 1
‘Abd al-Raʼūf (Scribe) 1
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