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Tales--India

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 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, who ruled the Mazandarin Province of Iran during the late 15th century, seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants.
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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Identifier: Or Ms
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 117: انوار سهیلی Anvār-i Suhaylī, 1244 A.H., 1828 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 117
Scope and Contents

A fine complete copy of the rendition, in Persian, of Kalīlah and Dimnah, by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).

Dates: 1244 A.H.; 1828 C.E.

Or Ms 121: بهار دانش (volume.1) Bahār-i dānish, undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 121
Scope and Contents

The work is a romance of Jahāndār-Sulṭan and Bahrawar-Bānū, told by means of a number of amusing tales. It was compiled by Shaykh 'Ināyat-allāh of Dehli (d. 1082 A.H., 1671 C.E.). The work is in two volumes, OR MS 121 and 122. Though the two volumes are not uniform in size, etc., the second is a continuation of the first and contains an index to it.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 122: بهار دانش Bahār-i dānish (volume.2), 1203 A.H., 1788 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 122
Scope and Contents

The work is a romance of Jahāndār-Sulṭan and Bahrawar-Bānū, told by means of a number of amusing tales. It was compiled by Shaykh 'Ināyat-allāh of Dehli (d. 1082 A.H., 1671 C.E.). The work is in two volumes, OR MS 121 and 122. Though the two volumes are not uniform in size, etc., the second is a continuation of the first and contains an index to it.

Dates: 1203 A.H.; 1788 C.E.

Or Ms 146: بیاض" خود بدولت" Bayāz̤-i khud-badawlat, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 146
Scope and Contents

A MS. containing miscellaneous selections made for Colonel John Baillie from numerous Arabic and Persian books, the latter predominating. For a complete list of contents see: Hukk et al. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (Hertford: Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd., 1925) 125-128.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 299: پدماوت Padmāwat, 1142 A.H., 1729 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 299
Scope and Contents The stories in verse in the Bhākā language of the loves of Padmāwati, daughter of the Rājah of Lanka or Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and Ratan-Sayn, Rājah of Chittawr (Mārwāra). There is also an account of the capture of the strong fortress of Chittawr, about 703 A.H. (1303 C.E.), by Sulṭān ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn Khiljī (695-716 A.H., 1296-1316 C.E.). The author is (Mālik) Shaykh Muḥammad Jāʼīsī, who composed it in 927 A.H. (1520 C.E.). The copyist gives the year of the transcription of the present...
Dates: 1142 A.H.; 1729 C.E.

Or Ms 339: انوار سهيلی Anwār-i Suhaylī, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 339
Scope and Contents

A copy of the Persian rendition of Kalīlah and Dimnah, by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).


Illuminated Frontispiece.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)

Or Ms 340: عيار دانش ‘Iyār-i dānish', 1184 A.H., 1770 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 340
Scope and Contents A Persian translation of Kalīlah and Dimnah made at the command of Mughal ruler Akbar the Great (r. 1556-1605 C.E.) by his favourite Prime Minister and Secretary, Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l " 'Allāmī " b. Shaykh Mubārak Nāgūrī. This work may be regarded as a later version of the Anwār-i Suhaylī by Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī, born ca. 840 A.H. (1436-37 C.E.) died. 910 A.H. (1504-5 C.E.).Copied by Shaykh Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn of Ḥusaynābād (near...
Dates: 1184 A.H.; 1770 C.E.

Or Ms 350: 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.)

Or Ms 351: معدن الجواهر Ma‘dan al-jawāhir, 1188 A.H., 1774 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 351
Scope and Contents

A collection of moral tales, which were originally compiled for the Emperor Jahāngīr (r. 1605 to 1627 C.E.) by Mullā Dawlat-Khān "Ṭarzī".

Dates: 1188 A.H.; 1774 C.E.