Contents note: A complete copy.Hand: Small, clear Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī.
شاهنامۀ فردوسیFull catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Carpet page. Unwan. Miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 15¾ × 9¾ in.Hand: Small Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī (فردوسی).Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: A complete copy.Hand: Distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: "This copy is the author's autograph."Hand: Naskh.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.1 copy of Sharafnāmah-ʼi taʼrīkh-i Kurdistān by Bidlīsī, Sharaf Khān, b. 1543.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Large, clear Naskh.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.1 copy of Ṣuwar al-buldān by Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, d. 957 or 8.
Binding: Bound in apricot and blue marbled paper over boards with leather trim.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDimensions: 25.4 × 20 cm (size of leaf). 17.3 × 14.5 in (size of written area).Hand: Shikastah-Nastaʻlīq.Layout: 10.Record origin: Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.2 works by Ḥājjī Sayyid Najaf ʻAlī walad Sayyid Malik Muḥammad Khān Lāhūrī on the subjects of India and Jammu and Kashmir.
فنون البلاغةFull catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."17 Kufic fragments.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."Fragments of sūrahs 12 and 13 in Kufic writing on vellum.
Binding: The volume is bound in a European restored binding incorporating older pasteboard covers. The older covers are covered with dark-red leather, having a blind, oval medallion (floral arabesques and scalloped edges), with pendants; the design on each cover is framed by two gilt fillets enclosing a gilt braid. Part of the original fore-edge flap remains on one of the covers; the envelope flap is now missing. The edges and spine are of recent dark-brown leather. The doublures are of plain brown leather with two gilt frames, and the endpapers are modern.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: There are scattered marginalia, mostly written in the same hands as annotated many of the illustrations. The fifth book (maqālah) also has a separate numbering of the individual leaves written in red ink in the upper left corner. On Folio 1a there are later pious statements and invocations written near the illuminated roundel.Decoration: Contains a depiction of Dioscorides and 289 illustrations of medicinal plants.Dimensions: 24.6 × 16.6 cm (size of leaf). 16.8 × 10.8 cm (size of written area).Hand: The text is written in a medium-large professional and consistent Naskh with occasional vocalization, with dark-brown ink and headings in red. The letters ḥāʾ and ʿayn frequently have minuscule letters underneath. Háčeks occur frequently over the letter rāʾ and occasionally over sīn; the letter ﻫ, when an attached pronoun, frequently has a minuscule letter over it.Layout: Written in one column throughout; 15 lines per page; the text area has been frame-ruled.Origin note: Copied in al-Madrasah al-Niẓāmīyah, Baghdad?; 25th Dhū al-Ḥijjah 637. AH; 17th July 1240. CERecord origin: Manuscript description based on NCAM-1 = Emilie Savage-Smith, A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Volume I: Medicine, University of Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011."An illustrated copy of Iṣṭafan ibn Bāsil's Arabic translation of Books III-V of Dioscorides' Materia Medica. Dioscorides’ Greek treatise on materia medica (Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς)composed of five bookswas translated several times into Arabic. The version most widely circulated was that by Iṣṭafān ibn Bāsil and slightly revised by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. 260/873 or 264/877). In the fourth/tenth century an interpretation of the Greek terms left unexplained in the Iṣṭafān/Ḥunayn version was undertaken in Spainwhile in Iran (or possibly Samarqand)the Iṣṭafān translation was revised by al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khurshīd al-Ṭabarī al-Nātilī about 374/985. In the sixth/twelfth centuryanother translation was prepared by Mihrān ibn Manṣūr ibn Mihrān (fl. c. 545/1150) working in Diyārbakr from a Syriac version made in the third/ninth century by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq."
Dimensions: 267 × 184 mm (size of leaf).Although the copy itself attributes this work to Alexander the Great, the it was in fact written by Muḥammad ibn Manglī, fl. 778/1376–7, a Mamluk officer of the guard (hḥalqah) to Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Sha‛bān (reg. 764–78/1362–77). This manuscript is one of the earliest copies of this text.
Binding: Envelope binding.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: 77 miniatures.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team."Fables.