Illuminated manuscripts
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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 304: ديوان صائب Dīvān-i Ṣāʼib, 1108 A.H., 1696 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 304
Scope and Contents
This good copy of the Dīvān of Ṣāʼib (fol. 1 is missing). It consists of ghazals, with which are mixed a few unfinished ghazals and rubā'is, all arranged alphabetically."Ṣāʼib" is the pen name of Mīrzā Muḥammad 'Alī of Tabriz (d. ca. 1080 A.H./ 1670 C.E.), who founded a new style for writing poetry, and is regarded as one of the greatest of modern Persian poets.He spend time under the patronage of the Governor of Kabul, Ẓafar-Khān, and...
Dates:
1108 A.H.; 1696 C.E.
Or Ms 306: مجمع الشعراء Majma‘ al-shu‘arāʼ, 1146 A.H., 1732 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 306
Scope and Contents
A selection of poetry, including from the poetry of Ḥāfiẓ of Shīrāz, Ṣāʼib and Waḥshī. It was made at the desire of Mirzā Āqā Riz̤ā Beg.
Illuminated frontispiece.
Dates:
1146 A.H.; 1732 C.E.
Or Ms 324: سرورافزا Surūrafzā, 1216 A.H., 1801 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 324
Scope and Contents
A poem in praise of London, composed during his travels in Europe, by Mirzā Abū Ṭālib Khān Hindī Isfahānī (d 1220 or 1221 A.H., 1805-1806 C.E.).
It contains a portrait of the author "Engraved by Ridley from an original picture painted by Russel," for the European Magazine. The present manuscript was copied for the owner, James Anderson, by George Swinton.
Dates:
1216 A.H.; 1801 C.E.
Or Ms 362: عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات ‘Ajāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 362
Scope and Contents
A treatise on cosmography translated from the Arabic of Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazvīnī, a descendant of Uns b. (Imām) Mālik.
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)