Manuscript. Persian. Title determined by comparison with editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Written by ʻAbd al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd Lārī. Probably written in Iran. Date from colophon written in pencil in a later hand. Paper: cream colored lighly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; unwan in gold, blue, red, white and green; text enclosed blue and gold ruled border; black ink with rubrication; some marginal corrections; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 11 lines in written area 11.5 x 5.7 cm. Fol. 1b-160a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M83. Contemporary dark brown leather envelope binding with elaborate gold embossed design covering most of the front and back covers and flap. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Explicit/Colophon: ... كتبه العبد البارى محمد محمود لاري عفو عنه.
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Ghulām Nabī walad Miyān ʻAbd al-Ghafūr. Copied in Pir Ramzan Ghazi neighborhood, Multan, Pakistan. Paper: glossy laid paper of varying thickness with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; small unwan in red, green, gold and black ink with a thick black border; black ink, section headings in red ink; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 14.5 x 8.3 cm. Folios 1b-135a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, 1. Contemporary red Indian binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Incipit: هذه النسخة المسماة هشت بهشت من تصنيف ختم الشعراء وافصح الفصحاء دركاه اله امير خسرو ... Colophon: تمت تمام كتاب هشت بهشت از يد فقير حقير پير تقصير غلام نبي ولد ميان عبد الغفور ... ساكن محله پير رمضان غازي ...
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Ibn Murād al-Ḥusaynī Muḥammad Zamān. Probably written in Iran. Paper; unpolished, slightly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, light blue, red and dark blue; title in red in gold cartouche; text on fol. 1b-2a has interlinear gold design; text enclosed in ruled border of a thin blue and a wider gold line; black ink with rubrication; catchwords. Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts, I, 337 Work is dividedn into twelve Majlis, each has its own unwan and colophon. Nastaʻliq; 29 lines in written area 25 x 15.7 cm. Fol. 1b-321a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M56. Text block intact, lacks binding. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Near East scanned
Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribes not identified. Written in India. Paper; coarse, cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication on some texts; catchwords. Work contiains: [1]. A collection of letters and notes by Muhammad Bahadur Shah II, King of Delhi, 1775-1862 (dated 1855) -- [2]. Unidentified historical treatise (undated) -- [3]. One leaf numbered leaf 20 from an unidentified work -- [4]. Daftar-i avval from the Mukātabāt-i ʻAllāmī by Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605 (dated 1257 [1841 or 1842]). Nastaʻliq; various lines in written areas of varying size. Fol. 1a-39a, 1a-117b, 1 leaf, fol. 1b-125a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M96. [Other physical details, binding] Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in Central Asia. Paper; lightly polished cream color laid paper with very faint horizontal chain lines on some pages and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue and red with pinkish flowers; text enclosed in ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; text is divided into hemistichs separated by wide columns which vary in color but are primarily reddish coral color; margins of all facing pages have floral designs in various colors which vary from page to page; black ink with elaborate section titles. Nastaʻliq; 14 lines in written area 15 x 7.5 cm. Fol. 1b-102a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M39. Modern dark brown leather binding with embossed center medallions front and back. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ (ff. 1-6 and 12b-236b, two centre columns). Dīvān-i Maghribī (ff. 3b-124b, margin column, and 7a-12a, two centre columns). Dīvān-i Qāsim-i Anvār (ff. 124b-317b, margin column).Decoration: 11 miniatures. Decorative borders etc.Dimensions: 12⅛ × 7⅞ in.Hand: Excellent 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 1889-1953.3 works by 3 authors on the subject of Persian poetry
Abstract: Treatise on Shiʻite law in 79 unnumbered bāb; incomplete at end.Ms. component part.Title from leaf 186b, lines 2-3.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords; a few marginal notes. Extensive staining and a few paper repairs.Incipit: الحمد لله ... انى قد صنفت هذا الکتاب و جمعت فىه بىن الحکم و نظىره وسمىته نزهة الناظر
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Copied by ʻAlī ibn Ḥaydar al-Qāsimī. Probably written in Turkey. Paper; thin cream color lightly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and first 3 leaves with decordations in blue and gold; text in 3 columns with text of Masnavi in 2 columns and a commentary written diagonally in the third; text enclosed in narrow ruled border of blue and gold; some rubrication; catchwords on rectos. Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian literature, p. 241 Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum, v. 2, p. 585-586 Nastaʻliq; 17 lines in written area 15 x 8 cm. Fol. 1b-551a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M72. Elaborate contemporary brown leather binding with gold medallions in center and corners and a gold tooled border; more recently re-backed. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Colophon: ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī. Written in India. Paper; thick, cream color oriental paper; black ink; decorated unwan on fol. 1b in blue and gold; six lines to the page; text of each line in text-box alternatingly aligned right and left; entire text within an outer gold border near the page edges; and a second smaller gold border surrounding the text proper; each text line is separated be a blank space within the borders defined by the text boxes; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʼliq; 6 lines in written area 13.5 x 9.2 cm. Folios 1b-14b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript [number]. Modern tan leather binding with center medallions back and front; remains of original binding preserved in box with manuscript. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Explicit/Colophon: حرره عبد الرشيد الديلمي.
Abstract: "Casual copy of a commentary on the author's Tanqīḥ al-UṣūlAbstract: on the principles of jurisprudence."Binding note: Quarter bound in marbled paper and burgundy leather. Paper pastedowns. Worn; damaged.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a, in red ink).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red to overline the commented text; scarce use of dots. Script and paper different for fol.2-23, written in a careful thick naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red (122 x 62 mm.). European papers with watermark. A repair in paper covers part of fol. 2a. Table of contents on fol.1a-b. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including ownership statements, a collation statement, verses of poetry in Persian. Marginal and interlinear annotations on the beginning of the text. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Title on tail of text block.Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of upper cover: "Raqm 206 ʻ".Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on a Wednesday ("yawm chahār shambah") in 1035 H. 1625 or 6 (perhaps the numbers should be read 1635) H. in Balad Āwarnah Āvarneh? (fol. 225). Read and collated by Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Bakr in Balad Āwarnah on 2 Jumādá al-Ākhar 1043H. 1633 (fol. 225b).Incipit: حامدا لله تعالى اولا وثانيا ولعنان الثناء اليه ثانيا وعلى افضل رسله واله مصليا وفي حليته الصلوات مجليا ومصليا وبعد فان العبد المتوسل الى الله تعالى باقوى الذريعة عبيد الله بن مسعود بن تاج الشريعة سعد جدّه وانجح جده يقول لما وفقنى الله لتاليف تنقيح الاصول اردت ان اشرح مشكلاته وافتح مغلقاته معرضا عن شرح بعض المواضعExplicit: حرمة لا تحتمل السقوط وحرمة تحتمل السقوط لكنهما لم تسقط وهما حق الله تع ويجب الضمان لوجود العصمة والله ولى العصمة والتوفيق
Abstract: "Commentary on al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī's Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām."Binding note: Quarter leather with magenta paper over boards.Ms. codex.Title from colophon on leaf 142b.Physical description: 17 lines per page; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Occasional staining.Origin: 19 Jumādá II, 1047 H 8 November 1637 in Iṣfahān, by ʻAlī ibn Sulṭān Aḥmad (leaf 142b).Incipit: الحمد لله ... وبعد فهذه فوايد علقتها على كتاب شرايع الاسلام
Binding: Splendid binding.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Folio 2b contains the minuscule signature of Rūzbihān the Illuminator على يد العبد روزبهان المذهب.Decoration: Two richly coloured pictures at the beginning; the first two pages of the text most luxuriously adorned in blue and gold; all the headings throughout beautifully illuminated.Hand: Very small, distinct, and 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 Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī by Saʻdī.