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Compilation manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Manuscript volumes comprising two or more works, whether referring to only the content combined or to the combination of physically separate leafs or gatherings that are sewn or tipped in to form one volume.

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Or Ms 105: شرح قصیده برده Sharḥ-i qaṣīdah-i Burdah, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 105
Scope and Contents

A commentary upon the Persian version of the Qaṣīdah-i Burdah of Muḥammad b. Sa'īd al Būṣīrī (d. 694, 696, or 697 A.H., 1294, 1296, or 1297 C.E.), for which see Or Ms 45 (with which this commentary is bound). It is by Faz̤l-allāh b. Rūzbahān, better known as Khwājah Mawlānā, Isfahānī. It was compiled in 921 A.H. (1515 C.E.).


The last folio is missing, but the commentary otherwise is complete.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 109: مثنوی نعمت خان عالی Mas̲navī Ni'mat Khān-i 'Alī, undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 109
Scope and Contents A collection of short stories of a mystical and didactic character, written in verse in the mas̲navī form by the same Ni'mat Khān-i 'Alī. Also known as Mīrzā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad, the poet was descended from a Persian family of physicians in Dehli. He was Comptroller of the Royal Kitchen, and received the title of Ni'mat Khān from the same Emperor 'Alamgīr and near the end of the reign, on account of his constant attendance upon that monarch, he received the...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 157: رسالة رد الالحاد Risālat radd al-ilḥād, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 157
Scope and Contents

A short treatise containing advice to those considered heretics who lived in the time of the Prophet Muḥammad (d. 11 A.H., 632 C.E.). These were collected from some books on traditions by Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 159: جامع الرموز Jāmi‘ al-rumūz, undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 159
Scope and Contents

A complete commentary on the Wiqāyat al-Hidāyah of ‘Ubayd-Allāh b. Maḥmūd b. Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī, also known as "Ṣadr al-Sharī‘ah", who lived in the seventh century of the ḥijrah. The author of the commentary is Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Khurāsānī Quhistānī, (d. circa 950 A.H., 1543 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 16th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 160: ترجمة عقيدة اهل السنة Tarjumat ‘aqīdat ahl al-sunnah, undated copy (original text composed 11-12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 160
Scope and Contents

A short treatise on advice to the people on the principles of religion by al-Imām Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, entitled "Ḥujjat al-Islām Zayn al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī'" (d. 505 A.H., 1111 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 11-12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 174: السلام والدرود al-Salām w-al-durūd, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 174
Scope and Contents

A collection of fourteen different salutations and ninety-five blessings on the Prophet Muḥammad. Only the last word is altered, otherwise the wording of the various sentences remains unchanged.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 219: رقائم کرائم Raqāʼim-i Karāʼim, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 219
Scope and Contents

A collection of letters written by Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.) to Amīr-Khān and others.


These were collected, as stated in the introduction, after the death of Amīr-Khān (circa 1131 A.H., 1719 C.E.), by his son Sayyid Ashraf-Khān (Mīr Muḥammad Husaynī), from the remnants left by his father.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 220: شقّها و کلمات عالمگير Shuqqahā-u Kalimāt-i ‘Ālamgīr, undated (original text compiled 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 220
Scope and Contents

A collection of royal letters and notes of Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.). The letters are addressed to his son Muḥammad A‘ẓam-Shāh (d. 1119 A.H., 1707 C.E.).

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 221: شقّهائ عالمگير Shuqqahā-yi ‘Ālamgīr, undated (original text compiled 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 221
Scope and Contents

A collection of royal letters and notes of Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.). The letters are addressed to his son Muḥammad A‘ẓam-Shāh (d. 1119 A.H., 1707 C.E.).

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 222: شقّهٔ عالمگير Shuqqah-yi ‘Ālamgīr, undated (original text compiled 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 222
Scope and Contents

A letter from Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.) to his son Muḥammad A‘ẓam-Shāh (d. 1119 A.H., 1707 C.E.) during a siege, possibly of Gulkundah in 1107 A.H., 1695 C.E.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 17th-18th cent. C.E.)