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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 383: فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 383
Scope and Contents

A book of divination ascribed to Shaykh Yaḥyā Munyarī (Sharaf al-Dīn Aḥmad, d. 782 A.H., 1380 C.E.), a celebrated saint of Bihār.


One of the manuscripts with which the present ms. is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

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

Or Ms 389: مروج الذهب و معادن الجوهر Murūj al-dhahab wa ma‘ādin al-jawhar, undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 389
Scope and Contents

A fragment of the famous historical encyclopaedia by Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī al-Mas‘ūdī (d.c. 345 A.H., 956 C.E.). It begins with the reign of the Umayyad Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwān (r. 685–705 C.E.) and ends with the Abbasid Caliph Mūsá al-Hādī (r. 785–786 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 406: تاريخ گزيده Ta'rīkh-i Guzīdah, undated copy (original text extant by 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 406
Scope and Contents

A general history from the earliest times to 730 A.H. (1329 C.E.), the year, as it is stated in the preface, when it was compiled by Ḥamd-allāh b. 'Abī Bakr b. Aḥmad b. Naṣr Mustawfī Qazvīnī (d. 750 A.H., 1349 C.E.).

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

Or Ms 410: چهار (یا چار) گلشن Chahār (or Chār) Gulshan, undated copy (original text extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 410
Scope and Contents

A general history and topography of the ṣūbahs of India and the Dakhan (Deccan), composed by Rāi Chaturman (fol. 15), or, with his full name, Chaturman Rāi, a Kāyath of the tribe of Saksīnah, called Rāi-Zādah, and finished in 1173 A.H., 1759-1760 C.E., a week before his death.

Dates: undated copy (original text extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 424: یوسف و زلیخا Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, undated (original text compiled 15th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 424
Scope and Contents

A popular poem on the love of Yūsuf and Zalīkhā by the celebrated Persian poet Jāmī (d. 898 A.H.,1492 C.E.).

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

Or Ms 425: زبور داود Zubūri-i Dāvūd, 1231 A.H., 1816 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 425
Scope and Contents

Psalms of David in Persian; printed at Calcutta 1816. This is the translation into Persian of the Psalms on the basis of the Hebrew by the missionary, Rev. Henry Martyn, based in Shiraz, with corrections made by Thomas Thomson and Mīrzā Sayyid 'Alī Shīrāzī.


This printed text is bound with a different, handwritten translation of the Psalms (Or Ms 426).

Dates: 1231 A.H.; 1816 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 426: زبور داود Zubūri-i Dāvūd, 1231 A.H., 1816 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 426
Scope and Contents

The Psalms of David in Persian.


This manuscript is bound with a printed translation of the Psalms (Or Ms 425), that states in its preface that it has been translated from Hebrew by the missionary, Rev. Henry Martyn, based in Shiraz, with corrections made by Thomas Thomson and Mīrzā Sayyid 'Alī Shīrāzī.

Dates: 1231 A.H.; 1816 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Royal Letter Book, late 14th-early 15th century, c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)

 Item
Identifier: MS 183
Scope and Contents MS 183, the Royal Letter Book, is an English late medieval manuscript containing contemporary copies of 374 letters, most of which belong to the reigns of Edward III (1327-1377) and Richard II (1377-1397). The manuscript further contains a few copies of letters from the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413) and the copy of a single letter from the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), as well as several letters between other correspondents. The overall date range of the...
Dates: late 14th-early 15th century; c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts
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Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)

 Item
Identifier: La.III.522
Scope and Contents MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....
Dates: 1570-1624 (approximate)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Laing Collection / Section III. Bound volumes

Works by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), late 15th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 191
Contents MS 191 contains two texts by the fifteenth-century Italian, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II from 1458-1464). The volume is divided into two parts, the first containing letters by Piccolimini, and the second, the text De miseria curialium. These will be described separately, under 'MS 191/ff. 1-97' and 'MS 191/ff. 99-115'. Writing A fine, uniform minuscule, written on fine vellum, with wide margins....
Dates: late 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

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