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Or Ms 185: تاريخ گزيده Ta'rīkh-i Guzīdah, 993 A.H., 1584 C.E.
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.
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 194: ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 214: عالمگيرنامه Ālamgīr-nāmah‘, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
A copy of a detailed history of the first ten years (1067-1078 A.H., 1656-1668 C.E.) of the reign of Abū-al Z̤afar Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Aurangzīb, the Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr, who died at the age of ninety, 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.
On thin glazed paper of a variety of colours and has an illuminated frontispiece.
Or Ms 270: تأريخ شمشير خانی Tā'rīkh-i shamshīr-khānī, 1090 A.H., 1679 C.E.
This is a copy of an abridgement of the Shāh-nāmah of Firdawsī, compiled with a connecting narrative in prose by Tawakkul Beg, son of Tūlāk Beg al-Ḥasanī. The history begins with the reign of Gayūmars̱, and is brought down to the Sāsānians, descendants of Ardashīr-Bābagān.
Illuminated frontispieces.
Or Ms 285: ديوان سعدی Dīvān-i Sa‘dī, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
An incomplete collection of the poems of one of the most celebrated of Persian poets Sa'dī of Shiraz, 606-691 A.H. (1210-1291-2 C.E.).
It consists of: Būstān, fols. 1- 65, qaṣīdāt, fols. 655-89; muqaṭṭa'āt, fols. 895-141.
It contains, two illuminated frontispieces.
Or Ms 293: کلّيات جامی Kulliyyāt-i Jāmī, 1048 A.H, 1638 C.E.
A collection of the three complete Dīvāns of celebrated Persian poet Muḥammad Ispahānī (d. 897 A.H., 1492 C.E.), poetically styled after the place of his birth 'Jāmī'.
Contains five illuminated frontispieces.
Or Ms 294: يوسف وزليخا Yūsuf va Zalīkhā, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
A popular poem on the love of Yūsuf and Zalīkhā by the celebrated Persian poet Jāmī (d. 898 A.H.,1492 C.E.).
Frontispiece illuminated with gold.