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Persian poetry

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طوطی نامه Ṭūṭī-nāmah, undated copy (original text compiled 14th Cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 350
Scope and Contents A collection of twelve stories from the "Tales of a Parrot", that normally includes 52 stories in total. This work in its Persian rendition was composed in 730 A.H., 1330 C.E., by Z̤iyā al-Dīn (d. 1350) whose takhalluṣ (nom de plume) was "Nakhshabī". The work was subsequently rendered into a more simple style in the 17th century C.E. by Muḥammad Qādirī. It is based on a Sanskrit work entitled Śukasaptati...
Dates: undated copy (original text compiled 14th Cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

عرفان Irfān‘, undated copy (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 313
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A mas̲navī by Mirzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Astarābādī, poetically styled "Bīdil" (d. 1133 A.H., 1720 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (extant by 18th cent. 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.

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Identifier: Or Ms 316
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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.

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Identifier: Or Ms 308
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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

قران السعدین Qirān al-Sa'dayn, undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 291
Scope and Contents This is a historical account in verse, by Amīr Khusow (651-725 A.H./ 1253-1325 C.E.), know as the greatest Persian-writing poet of medieval India, of the meeting of Sulṭān Mu'izz al-Dīn Kayqubād (who reigned at Dehlī, 686-689 A.H., 1287-1290 C.E.), with his father, Nasīr al-Dīn Bughrā-Khān, Sulṭān of Bengal, which took place at Dehli, 688 A.H. (1289 C.E.). The poem, the title of which means the conjunction of the two lucky planets, was completed, as it is stated towards the end, in the month...
Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

قصائد خاقانی Qaṣā'id-i Khāqānī, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 100
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A collection of eighty-eight qaṣīdahs by the celebrated Imām Afẓal al-Dīn Badil Ibrāhīm b. 'Alī Najjār "Khāqānī" of Shirvan, who originally wrote poetry under the name of Haqā'iqī d. 582 A.H.(1186 C.E.).

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

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

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Identifier: Or Ms 319
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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

کلّيّاتِ بهشتی Kulliyyāt-i Bihishtī, 1096 A.H., 1684 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 305
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The collected poems of "Bihishtī", whose surname does not appear.


He was a panegyrist of the Mughal Prince Murād-Bakhsh (d. 1072 A.H., 1662 C.E.), the youngest son of the Emperor Shāhjahān, to whom many of the qasīdahs are devoted.

Dates: 1096 A.H.; 1684 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّيات جامی Kulliyyāt-i Jāmī, 1048 A.H, 1638 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 293
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A collection of the three complete Dīvāns of celebrated Persian poet Muḥammad Ispahānī (d. 897 A.H., 1492 C.E.), poetically styled after the place of his birth 'Jāmī'.

Contains five illuminated frontispieces.

Dates: 1048 A.H; 1638 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

کلّيات سعدی Kulliyyāt-i Sa‘dī, 1065 A.H., 1654 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 284
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The complete works of one of the most celebrated of Persian poets Sa'dī of Shiraz, 606-691 A.H. (1210-1291-2 C.E.).

The titles and frontispieces are illuminated, illuminated lines round the pages.

Dates: 1065 A.H.; 1654 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia