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Compilation manuscripts

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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 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.)

Or Ms 223: ساعاتِ نهضت که عالمگير نمودند Sā‘āt-i Nahz̤at kih ‘Ālamgīr namūdand, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 223
Scope and Contents

A record of the movements and encampments of the Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.), from the third Rabī‘ II, 1066 A.H. (1665 C.E.), to the fourth of Jumādá II, 1099 A.H. (1687 C.E.), the thirty-fourth year of his reign. Besides the places of encampment, the length of stay and the time taken to pass from one place to another are also recorded.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 224: دستور العملِ بادشاهی Dastūr al-‘Amal-i Bādshāhī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 224
Scope and Contents

An abridged official manual of the Indian Empire. The original was possibly drawn up in Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr's (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.) time. It contains an account of the allowances of the officials of various grades, names of Faṣlī months, revenues and area of the Empire, distance from Shāhjahānābād (Dehlī) to various places, and the divisions and revenues of a number of ṣūbahs (see more in Hukk et al catalogue).

Dates: undated