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گرشاسپ نامه Garshāsp-nāmah, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 271
Scope and Contents This poem celebrates the exploits of Garshāsp, prince of Sistan, and one of the ancestors of Rustam (the celebrated hero in Firdawsī's Shāh-nāmah). It is said to be one of the earliest attempts to imitate Firdawsī.It is usually ascribed to the poet Asadī Ṭusī, the master of Firdawsī, who flourished during the reigns of Sulṭān Maḥmūd and his son Mas'ūd of Ghaznī, and died in that of the latter (421-432 A.H., 1030-1040 C.E.). However, some of the...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

ليلی و مجنون Laylá-u Majnūn, 1104 A.H., 1692 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 280
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This is one of the five epic poems on the love of Laylá and Majnūn by Shaykh Jamal al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyas b. Mu'ayyad Niẓām al-Dīn, "Niẓāmī" of Ganjah, who was born at Qum, 535 A.H. (1140 C.E.), and probably died 599 A.H. (1203 C.E.), though the dates of his death are variously described, 576-607 A.H. (1180-1210 C.E.).

Frontispiece illuminated with gold.

Dates: 1104 A.H.; 1692 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مآثر عالمگيری Maʼās̱ir-i ‘Ālamgīrī, 1145 A.H., 1732 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 216
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A history of the complete reign of Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (r. 1067-1078 A.H., 1656-1668 C.E.). It was compiled in 1122 A.H., 1710 C.E., by Muḥammad Sāqī Musta‘idd-Khān (d. 1136 A.H., 1723 C.E.) who was secretary to ‘Ināyat-Allāh Khān.


Illuminated Frontispiece.

Dates: 1145 A.H.; 1732 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مثنوی معنوی Masnavī-yi ma‘navī, undated (extant by 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 282
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The well-known spiritual poem composed by Mawlānā Jalāl al- Dīn Rūmī b. Muḥammad Bahāʼ al- Dīn b. al- Ḥusayn al- Khaṭībī, better known as Rūmī (d. 672 A.H.,1274 C.E.).

Illuminated frontispiece to each of the six Daftars.

Dates: undated (extant by 17th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مجربات التداوی Mujarrabāt al-tadāwī, 1244 A.H., 1828 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 253
Scope and Contents

A work on compound medicaments by Ghulām Muṣṭafā Bihārī.


Frontispiece illuminated with gold. Features interlinear illumination.

Dates: 1244 A.H.; 1828 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مجمع الشعراء Majma‘ al-shu‘arāʼ, 1146 A.H., 1732 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 306
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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.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

محيط اعظم Muḥīṭ-i a‘ẓam, 1161 A.H., 1748 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 314
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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.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

محيط اعظم Muḥīṭ-i a‘ẓam, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 315
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: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مختصر کتاب الحصن الحصين Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-ḥiṣn al-ḥaṣīn, undated (original text compiled 14th-15th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 172
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A work on Muslim devotion, according to the tenets of the Sunnīs. It is an abridgment of the Kitāb al-Ḥiṣn al-Ḥaṣīn of the celebrated theologian Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Jazarī, who was born in 751 A.H., 1350 C.E. at Damascus, resided at Brusa and afterwards at Cairo, and died at Shiraz at the age of 82 in 833 A.H., 1429 C.E. He was a follower of the school of al-Imām al-Shāfi‘ī.


Illuminated frontispiece.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 14th-15th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مخروطاط ابلونیوس Makhrūṭāṭ Iblawniyūs, early 12th cent. A.H. at latest, early 18th cent. C.E. at latest

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Identifier: Or Ms 28
Scope and Contents The treatise on conic sections by Apollonius of Perga, who was born in the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes, and died during that of Ptolemy Philopater, who ruled 222-205 B.C. It is stated on fol. 52b that Apollonius dedicated the first three books of his conic sections to Eudemus. The treatise was originally in eight books, of which only the first four were known in Europe. About the middle of the seventeenth century the next three books were translated from an Arabic MS. dated 1250 C.E. The...
Dates: early 12th cent. A.H. at latest; early 18th cent. C.E. at latest
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia