Illuminated manuscripts
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طبقات اکبرشاهی Ṭabaqāt-i Akbar-Shāhī, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 77
Scope and Contents
A most celebrated general history of India from the time of the Muslim conquest (367 A.H., 977 C.E.) to the 38th year of Mughal Emperor Akbar's reign (1002 A.H., 1593 A.D.). The work, which is the earliest pertaining exclusively to India, is also known under the titles of Ṭabaqāt-i Akbarī, Ta'rīkh-i Niẓamī, and Ta' rīkh-i Sulṭān-i Niẓamī. It was compiled by Niẓam al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Muqīm...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)
طلسم حيرت Ṭilsim-i ḥayrat, undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 317
Scope and Contents
A mas̲navī by Mirzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Astarābādī, poetically styled "Bīdil" (d. 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.).
Frontispiece illuminated.
Dates:
undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 194
Scope and Contents
A history of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H. (1336 C.E.), to his death, 807 A.H. (1405 C.E.), collected from official records, by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.), who was attached to the court of Sulṭān Shāhrukh Mīrzā, and subsequently of his son, Sulṭān Ibrāhīm Mīrzā, at whose desire the present work was compiled at Shiraz in four years and dedicated to Shāhrukh in 828 A.H. (1425 C.E.). The ...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 73
Scope and Contents
An authentic history of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H. (1336 C.E.), to his death, 807 A.H. (1405 C.E.), collected from official records, by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.), who was attached to the court of Sulṭān Shāhrukh Mīrzā, and subsequently of his son, Sulṭān Ibrāhīm Mīrzā, at whose desire the present work was compiled at Shiraz in four years and dedicated to Shāhrukh in 828 A.H. (1425 C.E.). The ...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
ظفرنامه Ẓafar-nāmah, 1090 A.H., 1679 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 74
Scope and Contents
An authentic history of the great conqueror Tīmūr (Tamerlane) from his birth, 736 A.H. (1336 C.E.), to his death, 807 A.H. (1405 C.E.), collected from official records, by Mawlānā Sharaf al-Dīn 'Alī Yazdī (d. 858 A.H., 1454 C.E.), who was attached to the court of Sulṭān Shāhrukh Mīrzā, and subsequently of his son, Sulṭān Ibrahim Mīrzā, at whose desire the present work was compiled at Shiraz in four years and dedicated to Shāhrukh in 828 A.H. (1425 C.E.). The ...
Dates:
1090 A.H.; 1679 C.E.
عالمگيرنامه Ālamgīr-nāmah‘, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 214
Scope and Contents
A copy of a detailed history of the first ten years (1067-1078 A.H., 1656-1668 C.E.) of the reign of Abū-al Z̤afar Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad Aurangzīb, the Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr, who died at the age of ninety, 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E.
On thin glazed paper of a variety of colours and has an illuminated frontispiece.
Dates:
undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
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.
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undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
عشق نامه Ishq-nāmah‘, 1161 A.H., 1748 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 316
Scope and Contents
A mas̲navī by Mirzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Astarābādī, poetically styled "Bīdil" (d. 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.).
Frontispiece illuminated with gold.
Dates:
1161 A.H.; 1748 C.E.
غرر الحکم ودررالکلم Ghurar al-ḥikam wa-durar al-kalim, 1023 A.H., 1614 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 8
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A collection of the numerous wise sayings of 'Alī b. Abī Ṭalib, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad, and First Imām of Shi'i Islam). The apothegms were gathered and arranged by 'Abd al-Waḥīd b. Muḥammad b. 'Abd al-Waḥīd Amīdī Tamīmī in the sixth century A.H..
Dates:
1023 A.H.; 1614 C.E.
فرمان Farmān, 1222 A.H., 1807 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 124
Scope and Contents
This is the original manuscript of a farmān, or royal order, of the Emperor Abū al-Naṣr Mu'īn al-Dīn Muḥammad Akbar-Shāh II (d. at the age of about 80 years in 1253 A.H., 1837 C.E., at Dehli), conferring upon Colonel John Baillie, British Resident at the Court of Oudh, the three titles of "'Imād al-Dawlah, Afẓal al-Mulk Bahādur, Arslan Jang." The farmān was issued on the 2nd of Sha'bān, 1222 A.H. (5th October, 1807...
Dates:
1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.