Compilation manuscripts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.).

This qaṣīdah, written in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad after the battle fought at Badr, consists of 176 couplets. The Persian translation under each line, inscribed in red ink, is also in verse and rhymes with the Arabic verse. The author of the Arabic original was Muḥammad b. Sa'īd al Būṣīrī (d. 694, 696, or 697 A.H., 1294, 1296, or 1297 C.E.).