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Or Ms 178: عجائب التجويد Ajā’ib al-tajwīd‘, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 178

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A short treatise on the correct reading, reciting, etc., of the Qur’ān. The subject is treated in nineteen chapters, and these are enumerated on fols. 3a-4a. The author is ‘Ibād-allāh.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 180: فتاوی عالم گيری (کتاب جنايات) Fatāwī-i ʻālamgīrī (Kitāb-i janāyāt), undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 180

Scope and Contents This is a detached part of the Fatāwī-i ʻĀlamgīrī. It is incomplete both at the beginning and end, and contains numerous notes scribbled in English on the margins. The Fatāwī-i ʻĀlamgīrī, it is to be noted, is an extensive and highly esteemed work of legal decisions by doctors of the Ḥanafī school. It was originally compiled in Arabic by the order of the Mughal Emperor ʻĀlamgīr, and was begun, 1067 A.H. (1656 C.E.), by...

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 192: فتوح ابن اعثم Futūḥ-i Ibn A‘s̱am, undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 192

Scope and Contents A history of the early caliphs, this work was originally written in Arabic by Khwājah Aḥmad b. al-A'tham al-Kūfī (d. c. 314 A.H., 926 C.E.). It covers events from the election of Abū Bakr to the death of Ḥusayn b. 'Alī.This work, which is known also under the name of the Tārīkh-i khulafā-i rāshidīn, was rendered into Persian in 596 A.H., 1199 C.E., by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Mustawfī al-Harawī, at the desire of his patron, a Wazīr in Khwārazm and...

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Or Ms 178: عجائب التجويد Ajā’ib al-tajwīd‘, undated

Or Ms 180: فتاوی عالم گيری (کتاب جنايات) Fatāwī-i ʻālamgīrī (Kitāb-i janāyāt), undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

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

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

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

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

Or Ms 188: روضته الصفاء Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ, 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.)

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

Or Ms 192: فتوح ابن اعثم Futūḥ-i Ibn A‘s̱am, undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)

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