Compilation manuscripts

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.

Models of various kinds of correspondence by Harkarn, son of the Mathurā-Dās Kanbū Multānī, whom Mughal ruler Jahāngīr (r. 1605-1627 C.E.) had appointed Ṣūbahdūr, or governor, of Akbarābād (Agra) during 1031-1032 A.H., 1621-1622 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.).

A book on the interpretation of dreams ascribed to the Prophet Yūsuf.

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.

This is part of the Dīvān (ghazals only) of Muḥammad Isḥāq or Ibrāhīm of Bukhārā, poetically named "Shawkat", who died at Isfahān in 1107 A.H., 1695 C.E.. It bears the seal of an ‘Ibād-Allāh, dated 1188 A.H. (1774 C.E.). This manuscript is bound with Or. Ms. 312, whose scribe is given as Muḥammad Yūsuf. It may well be by the same hand.

The lyrical poems (ghazals only) of Sayyid Mu‘izz al-Dīn Muḥammad "Mūsavī-Khān" (d. 1106 A.H., 1694 C.E.). This manuscript is bound with Or. Ms. 310 that bears the seal of an ‘Ibād-Allāh, dated 1188 A.H. (1774 C.E.), and Or. Ms. 312, whose scribe is given as Muḥammad Yūsuf. It may well be by the same hand.

The lyrical poems of Shaykh Nāṣir ‘Alī Sirhindī, who died at Dehli c. 1108 A.H., 1697 C.E. The colophon gives the scribe's name as Muḥammad Yūsuf.

This manuscript is bound with Or. Ms. 310 that bears the seal of an ‘Ibād-Allāh, dated 1188 A.H. (1774 C.E.).

An enumeration of a few lucky and unlucky days, with hints for the remedy of evil. It is ascribed by ‘Alī b. Ṭāʼūs to the sixth Twelver Shī‘ī Imām Ja‘far b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq (d. 148 A.H., 765 C.E.). The present version is by ‘Ibād-Allāh Muḥammad Bakr b. Muḥammad Taqī. One of the manuscripts with which the present manuscript is bound, Or. Ms. 308, is dated 1066 A.H. (1655 C.E.) and bears the name of the scribe Murtaẓá Qulī Qazvīnī.

A collection of letters composed by Bhūpat-Rāi, at the request of his patron Ra‘dandāz-Khān.

A mas̲navī by Mirzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Astarābādī, poetically styled "Bīdil" (d. 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.).

Frontispiece illuminated.