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Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:

فرمان Farmān, 1222 A.H., 1807 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 125
Scope and Contents This is an original MS. of a farmān [royal order] that, like OR MS 124, confirms honorary titles upon Colonel John Baillie, British Resident at the Court of Oudh. This order bears the name of Shāhzādah Mīrzā Muḥammad Jahāngīr at the top, and it was issued on the 19th Sha'ban, 1222 A.H. (22nd October, 1807 C.E.), in the first year of the reign of Emperor Abū al-Naṣr Mu'īn al-Dīn Muḥammad Akbar-Shāh II (d. 1253 A.H., 1837 C.E., at Dehli). This ...
Dates: 1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

فقه الامامیّة (آقسام متنوع) Fiqh al-Imāmiyyah (various extracts), undated copy

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Identifier: Or Ms 388
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Sections of a digest of Twelver Shi'ite Islamic Law. 93 folios. Written in a mild kind of shikastah in what does not appear to be an expert scribal hand; many lines in the text are struck out; corrections, notes, and additions feature on the margins.

Dates: undated copy
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

قاموس المحیط Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ, 1030 A.H., 1620 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 63
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A very famous dictionary of the Arabic language, by Shaykh al-Islām Majd al-Dīn Abū Ṭahir Muḥammad b. Ya'qūb al-Fīrūzābādī (d. 817 A.H., 1414 C.E.), who extracted material for it chiefly from his earlier work entitled as al-'Ubāb w-al-Muḥkam, which was in 65 vols. The manuscript is in good preservation and complete.

Dates: 1030 A.H.; 1620 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

قرابادین (طب قادری) Qarābādīn (Tibb-i Qādirī), 1219 A.H., 1804 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 255
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An elaborate work on the compound medicaments for the human body, compiled, between 1126-1130 A.H. (1714-1718 C.E.), by a famous physician, Mīr Muḥammad Akbar, also called "Muḥammad Arzānī", who flourished during Mughal Emperor Awrangzīb's reign (1658-1707 C.E.), and was the son of Mīr Ḥājī Muqīm.


See Or Ms 256 for a further example of a work by this author.


Illuminated frontispiece.

Dates: 1219 A.H.; 1804 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّيات جامی Kulliyyāt-i Jāmī, 1048 A.H, 1638 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 293
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A collection of the three complete Dīvāns of celebrated Persian poet Muḥammad Ispahānī (d. 897 A.H., 1492 C.E.), poetically styled after the place of his birth 'Jāmī'.

Contains five illuminated frontispieces.

Dates: 1048 A.H; 1638 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّيات سعدی Kulliyyāt-i Sa‘dī, 1065 A.H., 1654 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 284
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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.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّیات خاقانی Kulliyyāt-i Khāqānī, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 99
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The poetical compositions of the celebrated Imām Afẓal al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvan, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī d. 582 A.H. (1186 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّیات سعدی Kulliyyāt-i Sa'dī, 964 A.H., 1556 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 104
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A magnificent copy of the complete collected works of pre-eminently the most popular of Persian poets Sa'dī of Shiraz.

Dates: 964 A.H.; 1556 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّیات عرفی Kulliyyāt-i 'Urfī, 1065 A.H., 1655 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 107
Scope and Contents The collected works of the celebrated poet Sayyid Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn " 'Urfī " Shīrāzī, who came to India, 994 A.H. (1586 C.E.), first proceeded to the Deccan, where he soon entered into the service of Ḥakīm Masīḥ al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Jīlānī, but subsequently, on the death of his patron, 997 A.H. (1589 C.E.), he went to seek his fortune at Agra. Here he soon rose in the favour of the Khān-i Khānān, Mīrzā 'Abd al-Raḥīm (the son of Bayram Khān, who had been Akbar's regent), who had translated...
Dates: 1065 A.H.; 1655 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia