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Illuminated manuscripts

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

عشق نامه Ishq-nāmah‘, 1161 A.H., 1748 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 316
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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

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

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

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