Compilation manuscripts
Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 371: معرفة المذاهب Ma‘rifat al-maz̲āhib, undated
An exposition of a few minor tenets of certain different sects within Islam, the sects being defined as belonging to seventy-three groups in total. It was written from a Sunnī point of view, containing chiefly those articles which were judged worthy of censure by the author, Maḥmūd al-Ṭāhir Ghazālī, commonly called "Niẓām of the Madrasah-yi Jalālī".
Or Ms 382: قصّها Qiṣṣahā, undated
A few short tales of the wisdom of birds. In the last tale, the compiler has described the condition of Calcutta (Kolkata) and Monghir as it existed during his time. At the end there is a short selection from the poems of the celebrated Mirzā Muḥammad Rafī‘, poetically styled 'Sawdā' of Dehli (d. 1195 A.H., 1781 C.E.).
Or Ms 383: فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated
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.
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.)
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.).
Or Ms 406: تاريخ گزيده Ta'rīkh-i Guzīdah, undated copy (original text extant by 17th cent. C.E.)
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.).
Or Ms 410: چهار (یا چار) گلشن Chahār (or Chār) Gulshan, undated copy (original text extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
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.
Or Ms 424: یوسف و زلیخا Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, undated (original text compiled 15th Cent. C.E.)
A popular poem on the love of Yūsuf and Zalīkhā by the celebrated Persian poet Jāmī (d. 898 A.H.,1492 C.E.).
Or Ms 425: زبور داود Zubūri-i Dāvūd, 1231 A.H., 1816 C.E.
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).
Or Ms 426: زبور داود Zubūri-i Dāvūd, 1231 A.H., 1816 C.E.
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.