Illuminated manuscripts
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 104: کلّیات سعدی Kulliyyāt-i Sa'dī, 964 A.H., 1556 C.E.
A magnificent copy of the complete collected works of pre-eminently the most popular of Persian poets Sa'dī of Shiraz.
Or Ms 106: دیوان حافظ Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ, undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)
A collection of poems by the celebrated Persian lyric poet Shams-al-Dīn Muḥammad "Ḥāfiẓ" of Shiraz (ca. 715-792 A.H. /1315-1390 C.E.). This volume, probably copied in the 11th century A.H. (broadly, 17th cent. CE), is richly illuminated and includes twelve highly finished miniatures in Indian style.
Or Ms 107: کلّیات عرفی Kulliyyāt-i 'Urfī, 1065 A.H., 1655 C.E.
Or Ms 114: تصویرات راگ مالا Taṣvīrāt-i Rāg-mālā, undated
Music: An album illuminated by thirty-four groups of figures in gouache painting in a variety of colours, attitudes, and surroundings, representing conventional symbols of Rāgs and Rāginīs (the well-known personifications of Indian pitches).
Or Ms 119: جوامع الحکایات و لوامع الروایات Jawāmi' al-ḥikāyāt va lavāmi' al-rivāyāt, 842-843 A.H., 1439-1440 C.E.
A celebrated collection of historical tales and anecdotes, by Mawlānā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad 'Aufī, also known as Sadr al-Dīn, or Jamāl al-Dīn 'Aufī, who also compiled one of the earliest biographies of poets, called Lubāb al-Albāb. The present work was composed in 625 A.H. (1227 C.E.).