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Or Ms 299: پدماوت Padmāwat, 1142 A.H., 1729 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 299
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The stories in verse in the Bhākā language of the loves of Padmāwati, daughter of the Rājah of Lanka or Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and Ratan-Sayn, Rājah of Chittawr (Mārwāra). There is also an account of the capture of the strong fortress of Chittawr, about 703 A.H. (1303 C.E.), by Sulṭān ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn Khiljī (695-716 A.H., 1296-1316 C.E.). The author is (Mālik) Shaykh Muḥammad Jāʼīsī, who composed it in 927 A.H. (1520 C.E.).
The copyist gives the year of the transcription of the present...
Dates:
1142 A.H.; 1729 C.E.
Or Ms 339: انوار سهيلی Anwār-i Suhaylī, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 339
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A copy of the Persian rendition of Kalīlah and Dimnah, by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).
Illuminated Frontispiece.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 340: عيار دانش ‘Iyār-i dānish', 1184 A.H., 1770 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 340
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A Persian translation of Kalīlah and Dimnah made at the command of Mughal ruler Akbar the Great (r. 1556-1605 C.E.) by his favourite Prime Minister and Secretary, Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l " 'Allāmī " b. Shaykh Mubārak Nāgūrī. This work may be regarded as a later version of the Anwār-i Suhaylī by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).Copied by Shaykh Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn of Ḥusaynābād (near...
Dates:
1184 A.H.; 1770 C.E.
Or Ms 353: روح القصص Rūḥ al-qiṣaṣ, 1170 A.H., 1756 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 353
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The romance of Prince Āftāb and Princess Mahtāb by Allāhdād-Khān, poetrically styled "Fayyāz̤". According to the chronogram, it was copied at Jaipur in 1170 A.H., 1756 C.E. A piece of shed snakeskin and some leaves have been inserted into the volume.
Dates:
1170 A.H.; 1756 C.E.
Or Ms 355: قصّهٔ هزار مسئله Qiṣṣa-yi hazār masʼalah, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 355
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The story of the Prince of Rūm and the Princess of China by Mawlānā ‘Abd al-Ghafūr.
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undated