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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

Or Ms 194: ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 194

Scope and Contents A history of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H. (1336 C.E.), to his death, 807 A.H. (1405 C.E.), collected from official records, by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.), who was attached to the court of Sulṭān Shāhrukh Mīrzā, and subsequently of his son, Sulṭān Ibrāhīm Mīrzā, at whose desire the present work was compiled at Shiraz in four years and dedicated to Shāhrukh in 828 A.H. (1425 C.E.). The ...

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 196: توزک تیموری Tūzuk-i Tīmūrī, 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 196

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This is a Persian version of the institutes, political and military, forming the last part of the pseudo-autobiography of Tīmūr (Tamerlane), 736 -807 A.H., 1336-1405 C.E.). The full work is known by the title Malfūẓāt-i Amīr Tīmūr, it was translated into Persian, from Chagatay by Mīr Ṭālib-i Ḥusaynī around 1047 A.H. (1637 C.E.).

The beginning of the present copy is defective. In the colophon it is called "Wāqi'āt-i Amīr Tīmūr".

Dates: 1118 A.H.; 1707 C.E.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 199: توزک تیموری Tūzuk-i Tīmūrī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 199

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This is a Persian version of the institutes, political and military, forming the last part of the pseudo-autobiography of Tīmūr (Tamerlane), 736 -807 A.H., 1336-1405 C.E.). The full work is known by the title Malfūẓāt-i Amīr Tīmūr, it was translated into Persian, from Chagatay by Mīr Ṭālib-i Ḥusaynī around 1047 A.H. (1637 C.E.).

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 200: گلشن ابراهيمی ـ جلد اوّل Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī (vol.i), undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 200

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This is Vol. I of a general history of India from the earliest times to 1018 A.H., 1609 C.E., the year in which it was presented to Sulṭān Naṣīr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ‘Ādil-Shāh, the King of Bījāpūr (988-1037 A.H., 1580-1627 C.E.), at whose desire it had been compiled by the celebrated Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū-Shāh, surnamed "Firishtah," who was born in Astarābād about 960 A.H., 1552 C.E. The present work is commonly called the Tārīkh-i Firishtah.

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 201: خلاصة التواريخ Khulāṣat al-tawārīkh, 1175 A.H., 1761 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 201

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A general history of India from the earliest times to the death of the Emperor ‘Alamgīr (1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.), by Munshī Sujān-Rāi (sometimes called Shujān-Rāi) of Patiyāla, who compiled and dedicated it to ‘Alamgīr, 1107 A.H.,1695 C.E.

Copied at Aḥmadābād.

Dates: 1175 A.H.; 1761 C.E.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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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.)

Or Ms 194: ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 196: توزک تیموری Tūzuk-i Tīmūrī, 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.

Or Ms 199: توزک تیموری Tūzuk-i Tīmūrī, undated

Or Ms 200: گلشن ابراهيمی ـ جلد اوّل Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī (vol.i), undated (original text compiled 17th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 201: خلاصة التواريخ Khulāṣat al-tawārīkh, 1175 A.H., 1761 C.E.

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