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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 152 Collections and/or Records:

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

معرفة المذاهب Ma‘rifat al-maz̲āhib, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 371
Scope and Contents

An exposition of a few minor tenets of certain different sects within Islam, the sects being defined as belonging to seventy-three groups in total. It was written from a Sunnī point of view, containing chiefly those articles which were judged worthy of censure by the author, Maḥmūd al-Ṭāhir Ghazālī, commonly called "Niẓām of the Madrasah-yi Jalālī".

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

معلومات الآفاق Ma‘lūmāt al-āfāq, undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 248
Scope and Contents This is a detached portion taken from the geographical work of the same name, which was written after the death of Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr (d. 1118 A.H., 1707 C.E), by Sayyid Amīn al-Dīn Khān b. Abū al-Makārim Amīr-Khān al-Ḥusaynī al-Harawī. It contains brief accounts of the titulature of the Emperor, the Princes, the Princesses, and the nobles of the Court of Dehli. Brief references to the Ṣūbahs (provinces), areas, revenues, distances between various...
Dates: undated (original text compiled 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

منشئات برهمن Munshaʼāt-i Brahman, 1185 A.H., 1775 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 334
Scope and Contents

A collection of letters written to the Mughal ruler Shāhjahān (r. 1628–1658 C.E.) and other distinguished individuals during his reign, by Chandarbhān (d. 1068 or 1073 A.H., 1657 or 1662 C.E.), poetically named "Brahman". He was for a time a record-writer at the royal court and author of the Chahār-Chaman.


Copied in the Faṣlī year 1179 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) by Ṣāhib-Singh of Fatḥpūr (Awadh).

Dates: 1185 A.H.; 1775 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

منشئات رنجهور داس Munshaʼāt-i Ranjhūr-Dās, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 337
Scope and Contents

An incomplete collection of letters written by Ranjhūr-Dās (fl. 1732), also called Ranchūr-Dās, son of Ranjīt-Rā who was a Kāyath of Jawnpur. The author states in the preface that he made the selection for his younger son, Rādha-Kishn. The letters are followed by a work apparently on grammar, but with no clear beginning or end.

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

نادر البیان في علم النحو Nādir al-bayān fī 'ilm al-naḥw, 1150 A.H., 1737 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 37
Scope and Contents

A treatise on grammar by Aḥmad b. al-Mas'ūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Harkāmī.

Dates: 1150 A.H.; 1737 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

نامهٔ شاه عباسِ ثانی Nāmah-yi Shāh-‘Abbās II, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 241
Scope and Contents A letter stated to have been sent by Shāh-‘Abbās II of Persia, after his conquest of Kandahar in 1058 A.H. (1648 C.E.), to Jahāngīr, emperor of India, with the reply of the letter included.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) states: "This is evidently wrong, for ‘Abbās II, who ascended the throne, A.H. 1052 (A.D. 1642), was a contemporary of...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

نان و حلوا Nān va-ḥalvā, undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 303
Scope and Contents

A mas̲navī by the great Shī‘ī theologian Shaykh Bahā’ al-Dīn b. Shaykh Ḥusayn, poetically styled "Bahā’ī" (d. circa 1030 A.H., 1621 C.E.)

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

نصيحت نامهٔ حکماء Naṣiḥat-nāmah-yi ḥukamāʼ, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 254
Scope and Contents

A few rules for health in verse, taken from ancient physicians, and containing a few hints as to the treatment of ordinary ailments, also in verse.

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