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

Found in 150 Collections and/or Records:

قواعد فارسی Qawā‘id-i Fārsī, undated copy (earliest version compiled 18th-19th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 359
Scope and Contents

A short treatise on grammar by Rawshan ‘Alī Anṣārī of Jawnpur (d. circa 1225 A.H., 1810 C.E.), who was a professor in the College at Fort William, Calcutta (Kolkata). In the introduction it is stated that the author compiled this work for his son Faz̤l ‘Alī.

Dates: undated copy (earliest version compiled 18th-19th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

قيافه نامه Qiyāfah-nāmah, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 370
Scope and Contents A treatise on the science of physiognomy, including palmistry, by Kālī-Dās Hindī.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) states that the author is probably the celebrated Hindu poet who flourished either in the time of Rājah Vikramāditya, towards the commencement of the Christian era, or Rājah Bhūj (1040-1090 C.E.). He wrote his celebrated work Nalodia, exhibiting...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مثنوی نعمت خان عالی Mas̲navī Ni'mat Khān-i 'Alī, undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 109
Scope and Contents A collection of short stories of a mystical and didactic character, written in verse in the mas̲navī form by the same Ni'mat Khān-i 'Alī. Also known as Mīrzā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad, the poet was descended from a Persian family of physicians in Dehli. He was Comptroller of the Royal Kitchen, and received the title of Ni'mat Khān from the same Emperor 'Alamgīr and near the end of the reign, on account of his constant attendance upon that monarch, he received the...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

محاربه ومصالحهٔ محمدشاه با نادرشاه Muḥārabah-u muṣālaḥah-yi Muḥammad-Shāh bā Nādir-Shāh, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 227
Scope and Contents

This is an anonymous account of the war and subsequent peace between Mughal Muḥammad-Shāh of India and Nādir-Shāh of Persia in the 21st year of Muḥammad-Shāh's reign (1152 A.H., 1739 C.E.).


Certain pages are heavily annotated in English. The annotations appear to be translations of the main text, possibly in the hand of the collector, James Anderson.

Dates: undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

محيط اعظم Muḥīṭ-i a‘ẓam, 1161 A.H., 1748 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 314
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

محيط اعظم Muḥīṭ-i a‘ẓam, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 315
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: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مخزن الاسرار Makhzan al-Asrār, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 102
Scope and Contents An allegorical Sufī mas̲navī by the famous Shaykh Jamal al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyas b. Mu'ayyad Niẓām al-Dīn, "Niẓāmī" of Ganjah, who was born at Qum, 535 A.H. (1140 C.E.), and probably died 599 A.H. (1203 C.E.), though the dates of his death are variously described, 576-607 A.H. (1180-1210 C.E.). It is divided into twenty maqalahs (chapters), and illustrated by means of short instructive anecdotes. Various manuscripts of this poem bear different...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مرقومات عبداللّه بن محمد المرواريد Marqūmāt-i ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Marwārīd, 1023 A.H., 1614 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 331
Scope and Contents

A number of letters, etc, written and collected at the request of friends by Khwājah Shihāb al-Dīn, or as he calls himself, ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Marwārīd (d. 922 A.H., 1516 C.E.), a poet from Kerman, present day Iran, who used the pen name "Bayānī".

Dates: 1023 A.H.; 1614 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

مروج الذهب و معادن الجوهر Murūj al-dhahab wa ma‘ādin al-jawhar, undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 389
Scope and Contents

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.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 10th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

معراج التوحید Mi'rāj al-Tawḥīd, 1222 A.H., 1807 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 93
Scope and Contents A treatise in verse on the knowledge of the stars with a commentary upon the same in prose, by Mīrzā Abū Ṭalib Khān b. Ḥājjī Muḥammad Beg Khān Hindī Isfahānī (d. 1220 or 1221 A.H., 1805-1806 C.E.) The author in the introduction states that he was requested on his return from Europe by a friend to write his latest observations in the science of astronomy; the present treatise was accordingly compiled after a labour of two months in 1219 A.H. (1804 C.E.), and dedicated to Abū al-Fatḥ Sulṭān...
Dates: 1222 A.H.; 1807 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia