Illuminated manuscripts
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 151: القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 151
Scope and Contents
A complete copy of the Qur'an. Written in extremely small but clear script.
First two pages richly illuminated in gold and colour.
Dates:
undated
Or Ms 161: الآثار الباقيه عن القرون الخاليه al-Āthār al-bāqiyah ‘an al-qurūn al-khāliyah, 707 A.H., 1307 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 161
Scope and Contents
This important work by the Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, who is better known as Abū Rayḥān "al-Bīrūnī" al-Khwārazmī (d. 440 A.H., 1048 C.E.) was written originally in circa 390 A.H. (1000 A.D.). The manuscript has a distinct multi-ethnic and multi-confessional flavour. Al-Bīrūnī, who calculated on the basis of measurements he took in the Punjab plain that the world was round, describes the systems of calculating time used by the known races of the world, and their associated...
Dates:
707 A.H.; 1307 C.E.
Or Ms 284: کلّيات سعدی Kulliyyāt-i Sa‘dī, 1065 A.H., 1654 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 284
Scope and Contents
The complete works of one of the most celebrated of Persian poets Sa'dī of Shiraz, 606-691 A.H. (1210-1291-2 C.E.).
The titles and frontispieces are illuminated, illuminated lines round the pages.
Dates:
1065 A.H.; 1654 C.E.
Or Ms 287: بوستان و گلستان با تصویر Būstān va Gulistān (bā taṣvīr), undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 287
Scope and Contents
This fine manuscript contains: the complete Būstān of the famous Persian poet Sa‘dī (d. circa 690 A.H., 1291 C.E.), written on the margins and beginning in the usual manner. And, in the centre of the pages, his complete Gulistān, which begins with the preface. It features illuminated frontispieces, gold frames, and is illustrated with seven portraits in the Persian style of the 9th century A.H. (15th cent. C.E.). The binding...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 373: قطعات خوش خط Qiṭ‘āt-i khūshkhaṭṭ, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 373
Scope and Contents
This is a muraqqa' (album) containing valuable specimens of Persian penmanship in a variety of scripts: nasta‘līq, naskh, rayḥān, tawqī‘, muḥaqqaq, riqā‘, and thuluth. They are pasted, large ones in the centre and small ones...
Dates:
undated
Or Ms 374: تصاوير Taṣāwīr, undated
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Identifier: Or Ms 374
Scope and Contents
The contents of this volume are: Nineteen (16 3/4 in. by 11 1/4 in.) and ten (13 1/4 in. by 9 1/4 in.) portraits carefully drawn, with seven (13 1/4 in. by 9 1/4 in.) good specimens of caligraphy (one by Fāʼiqq). The paintings are by Indian artists, two are in the Persian style, and have been pasted on gold sprinkled paper. The subjects of the pictures include Mughal Emperors and Princes (including Bābar and ‘Ālamgīr and Mirzā Jawān-Bakht, who died at Rangun in exile with his father...
Dates:
undated