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Persian poetry

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Or Ms 264: اظهار الحق Iẓhār al-ḥaqq, undated (extant by 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 264
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A Persian translation of some of the difficult lines in the qasīdahs written by 'Alī b. Abī Ṭalib (cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad, and First Imām of Shi'i Islam). It includes comments by Mīr Sayyid Walī, who compiled it at the desire of his father.


The main text is written in nasta'līq script with the Arabic quotations from the poetry written in naskh.

Dates: undated (extant by 17th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 273: شرح حديقة الحقيقة Sharḥ-i ḥadīqat al- ḥaqīqah, 1051 A.H., 1641 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 273
Scope and Contents The Ḥadīqah (a poem on the unity of God, other religions subjects, and ethics), with an elaborate commentary upon the same. The poem is by celebrated poet and philosopher Shaykh Abū al-Majd Majdūd, or Majd al-Dīn 'Sanāʼī' b. Ādam, commonly known as Ḥakīm Sanāʼī who was born at Ghaznī towards the later half of the 5th century A.H. (11th century C.E.). The commentary is by Khwājah ‘Abd al-Laṭīf b. ‘Abd-Allāh al-‘Abbāsī (d. 1048 or 1049 A.H., 1638 or...
Dates: 1051 A.H.; 1641 C.E.

Or Ms 274: ديوان خاقانی Dīvān-i Khāqānī, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 274
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The collected poems of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn "Khāqānī" of Shirvān (who died at Tabriz between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E.), with a few pages missing at the end.

Fronticepiece illuminated with gold.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 275: ديوان خاقانی Dīvān-i Khāqānī, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 275
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The collected poems of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvan, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī and died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E..

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 276: ديوان خاقانی Dīvān-i Khāqānī, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 276
Scope and Contents

The collected poems of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvan, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī and died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E.. It contains both named and unnamed works.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 277: شرح ديوان خاقانی Sharḥ-i Dīwān-i Khāqānī, 1045 A.H., 1635 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 277
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A commentary on the difficult verses in the Qaṣīdahs of Imām Afz̤al al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvān who died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E., by Muḥammad bin Dāūd (here Dād) ‘Alawī Shādiyābādī. Copied in the village of Tamwarlī in Tilingānah, India.

Dates: 1045 A.H.; 1635 C.E.

Or Ms 278: تحفة العراقين Tuḥfat al-‘Irāqayn, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 278
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The well-known masnawī by the celebrated poet Imām Az̤al al-Dīn "Khāqānī" of Shirvān, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī and died at Tabriz, between 582 and 595 A.H. /1186 and 1199 C.E.. In it he describes the pilgrimage that he made from Shīrwān to Mecca and Medīna and his way back, with special references to the ‘Irāq-i ‘Ajam and ‘Irāq-i ‘Arab.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 279: اسکندر نامهٔ برّی Iskandar-nāma-i barrī, 1180 A.H., 1766 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 279
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The first part of the celebrated poem of 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.).

This section of the poem contains an account of the exploits of Alexander the Great.

Dates: 1180 A.H.; 1766 C.E.

Or Ms 280: ليلی و مجنون Laylá-u Majnūn, 1104 A.H., 1692 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 280
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This is one of the five epic poems on the love of Laylá and Majnūn by 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.).

Frontispiece illuminated with gold.

Dates: 1104 A.H.; 1692 C.E.