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An elaborate work on the compound medicaments for the human body, compiled between 1126-1130 A.H. (1714-1718 C.E.) by famous physician Mīr Muḥammad Akbar, also called "Muḥammad Arzānī", who flourished during Mughal Emperor Awrangzīb's reign (1658-1707 C.E.), and was the son of Mīr Ḥājī Muqīm.

See Or Ms 255 for a further example of a work by this author.

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A complete copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.), over two volumes OR MS 268 and 269. The first volume is injured in its first half.

Headings in black or red.

Numerous later additions have been made on the margins.

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A complete copy of the Persian "Book of Kings" and epic poem, the verse written by Abū'l-Qāsim Firdawsī ca. 329-410 A.H. (940-1019 C.E.), over two volumes OR MS 268 and 269. The first volume is injured in its first half.

Headings in black or red.

Numerous later additions have been made on the margins.

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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.

Scope and Contents The Ḥadīqah (a poem on the unity of God, other religions subjects, and ethics), with an elaborate commentary upon the same. The poem is by celebrated poet and philosopher Shaykh Abū al-Majd Majdūd, or Majd al-Dīn 'Sanāʼī' b. Ādam, commonly known as Ḥakīm Sanāʼī who was born at Ghaznī towards the later half of the 5th century A.H. (11th century C.E.). The commentary is by Khwājah ‘Abd al-Laṭīf b. ‘Abd-Allāh al-‘Abbāsī (d. 1048 or 1049 A.H., 1638 or...

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The collected poems of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvan, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī and died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E..

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The collected poems of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvan, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī and died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E.. It contains both named and unnamed works.

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The well-known masnawī by the celebrated poet Imām Az̤al al-Dīn "Khāqānī" of Shirvān, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī and died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E.. In it he describes the pilgrimage that he made from Shīrwān to Mecca and Medīna and his way back, with special references to the ‘Irāq-i ‘Ajam and ‘Irāq-i ‘Arab.

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The first part of the celebrated poem of Shaykh Jamal al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyas b. Mu'ayyad Niẓām al-Dīn, "Niẓāmī" of Ganjah, who was born at Qum, 535 A.H. (1140 C.E.), and probably died 599 A.H. (1203 C.E.), though the dates of his death are variously described, 576-607 A.H. (1180-1210 C.E.).

This section of the poem contains an account of the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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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.