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Or Ms 164: الآداب السلطانيه والدول الاسلاميه al-Ādāb al-sulṭāniyyah wa-al-duwal al-Islāmiyyah, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 164

Scope and Contents These are three short extracts from the Tārīkh al-duwal of al-Fakhr al-Rāzī, by al-Shaykh Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. ‘Alī al-Jūzī (d. 577 A.H., 1181 C.E.). It contains: Account of the great Khalīfah Hārūn al-Rashīd, the fifth of the line of ‘Abbās, who died, after a reign of 23 years, on the 3rd Jumādá II, 193 A.H. (the 24th March, 809 C.E.), fols. 1-16. ...

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 165: مختصر الدول Mukhtaṣar al-duwal, undated copy (including sections originally composed 14th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 165

Scope and Contents These are three short historical extracts relating to the death of the Khalīfah al-Hādī and the accession of his son Hārūn al-Rashīd, taken from the following works: The history of Abū al-Faraj b. Harūn al-Māliṭī, fols. 1-23. Al-Mukhtaṣar fī Akhbar al-Bashar of Prince Abū al-Fidā (d. 732 A.H., 1331 C.E.). Ta'rīkh al-Muslimīn of George b. al-'Amīd b. Ilyas b. Abī...

Dates: undated copy (including sections originally composed 14th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 169: الف ليله و ليله Alf laylah wa-laylah, undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 169

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The Ms. contains stories from the beginning of the "Arabian Nights " till the middle of the tale of Qamar al-Zamān, which is the 97th Ḥikāyah, or tale, in Macnaghten's edition, but the wording is very different.

Dates: undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 170: شرح تذكرة الطوسى Sharḥ tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 170

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A commentary on the Tadhkirah, a treatise on the elements of Astronomy of the famous Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672 A.H., 1273 C.E.), by Al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816 A.H., 1413 C.E.), who compiled it in 811 A.H. (1408 C.E.). It is divided into four chapters.

Contains numerous neat diagrams in colour.

Dates: 1146 A.H.; 1733 C.E.

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 174: السلام والدرود al-Salām w-al-durūd, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 174

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A collection of fourteen different salutations and ninety-five blessings on the Prophet Muḥammad. Only the last word is altered, otherwise the wording of the various sentences remains unchanged.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Or Ms 164: الآداب السلطانيه والدول الاسلاميه al-Ādāb al-sulṭāniyyah wa-al-duwal al-Islāmiyyah, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 165: مختصر الدول Mukhtaṣar al-duwal, undated copy (including sections originally composed 14th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 169: الف ليله و ليله Alf laylah wa-laylah, undated copy (earliest version compiled 9th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 170: شرح تذكرة الطوسى Sharḥ tadhkirat al-Ṭūsī, 1146 A.H., 1733 C.E.

Or Ms 174: السلام والدرود al-Salām w-al-durūd, undated

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.

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