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Compilation manuscripts

 Subject

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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 leaves or gatherings that are sewn or tipped in to form one volume.

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

ظهوریهٔ صفویه Ẓuhuriyya-i Ṣafaviyyah, 1222 A.H., 1807 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 87
Scope and Contents A treatise on the rise and rule of the Wahābīs in Najaf Ashraf, containing a few prophecies connected with their expulsion from that region and the restoration of the holy places to the descendants of the martyrs. The author probably is Abū al-Fatḥ Sulṭān Muḥammad Ṣafavī (see Or Ms 86). At the end there is given a copy of a letter complaining that the practice of grave-worship among the people was not in accordance with the laws of Islam. The letter, which is addressed to Sulṭān Fatḥ-'Alī...
Dates: 1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

عشق نامه Ishq-nāmah‘, 1161 A.H., 1748 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 316
Scope and Contents

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


Frontispiece illuminated with gold.

Dates: 1161 A.H.; 1748 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

عصمت نامه Iṣmat-nāmah', 1066 A.H, 1655 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 308
Scope and Contents

The story, in the form of a mas̲navī, of the adventures of Dalīlah (here written دلالّه) Muḥtālah, adapted from the Arabian Nights. It was rendered into verse by Shaykh Ḥamīd.

Dates: 1066 A.H; 1655 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 364
Scope and Contents

The book of divinations ascribed to Alexander the Great (d. 323 B.C.). It contains, in tables, the names of the twelve divisions of heaven, the zodiac.


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.

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

فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 365
Scope and Contents

A book of divination ascribed to ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.).


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

فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 366
Scope and Contents

A translation from the Arabic of a book of divination ascribed to ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (d. 40 A.H., 661 C.E.), and versified by the poet Khwājah Rashīd al-Dīn "Waṭwāṭ" (d. 578 A.H., 1182 C.E.).


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

فال نامه Fāl-nāmah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 367
Scope and Contents

A book of divination ascribed to the sixth Twelver Shī‘ī Imām, Ja‘far b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq (d. 148 A.H., 765 C.E.)


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

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

فرهنگ طب Farhang-i Ṭibb, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 252
Scope and Contents

A treatise in prose on materia medica by Shihāb al- Dīn b. ‘Abd al- Karīm. The names of simple medicinal substances are arranged in alphabetical order.


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) says of the dating: "about 1133 A.H. (1720 C.E.)" and that the scribe is "Chanpā, son of Aithippā'. See Or Ms 257 for further discussion of this scribe.

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

قصهٔ شاه و گل Qissah-yi Shāh-u Gul, 1118 A.H., 1706 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 319
Scope and Contents

The love-story of Akbar-Shāh (r. 1806-1835 C.E.), a descendant of Tīmūr (d. 1405 C.E.), with Gul-i Surkh.

Dates: 1118 A.H.; 1706 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia