Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Written by Muḥammad Tahsīn. Fol. 1a has name of former owner David Anderson. Written in India. Paper; thin, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; numerous notations in English on first few leaves; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in wrtten area 18.5 x 9 cm. Fol. 1b-179b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M143. Morocco leather binding with embossed medallions and corner decorationsfront and back; gold gilt borders Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
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."1 copy of Nūr-nāmah. A Persian devotional work interspersed with Arabic prayers and passages in Turkish.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Persian ghazals (ff. 1b-16b). Nesimi, Dīvān-i Nesīmī (ff. 19b-190a).Dimensions: 21.8 × 13.5 cm (size of leaf). 15 × 78 cm (size of written area).Hand: Taʻlīq.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.Persian ghazals and the Dīvān of Nesīmī.
Abstract: Portrait of the famous Persian miniaturist Riz̤ā ʻAbbāsī by his student Muʻīn Muṣavvir. The subject wears spectacles and is holding a picture of a European which he is painting, with the implements of his craft spread around him (description by Moghadam).Image + illuminated frame: 32.4 x 21.3 cm.Mounted: 51.4 x 41.3 cm.Gouache and gold on paper; portrait is framed in illuminated borders; mounted on cardboard. Entire piece framed in modern black frame with ivory matting and glass.Dated Ramaḍān 1084 H December 1673 or January 1674.
Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's history, starting with the 11th year of Shāhjahān's reign and including the wars of succession and his death. Cf, the similar composite manuscript ms. no. 566 in Bankipore, Bengal. Oriental Public Library. Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian manuscripts, v. 7 (Patna, 1921).
Manuscript. Persian Title from pasted label on cover. Scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper: lined notebook paper, lines running vertically to the text; black ink. Text breaks off after the first line of "al-bāb al-awwal min al-wāḥid al-rābiʻ." Naskh; 17 lines in written area approximately 15.5 x 11.5 cm. 165 pages. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M5. Contemporary blue cardboard binding with black leather spine. With a small manuscript fragment 19 x 12.5 cm, 16 pages (25-28 lines), in very small nastaʻliq script. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Incipit: بسم الامنع الاقدس Explicit/Colophon: في ان للنقطة مقامين مقام ينطق عن الله ومقام ينطق عما دون الله ذلك مقام
Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red ink; verses are separated by gold discs. Individual sūrahs have titles in red and gold; extensive commentary in Persian in the margins throughout; black ink; Persian translation in red ink; catchwords. The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress, 17 Naskh (Qurʼānic text); nastaʻliq (Persian translation); 12 lines in written area 21 x 11.5 cm. Fol. 1b-325a. Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, M133. Binding lacking; marbled endpapers in pastel colors and tan. Explicit/Colophon: Kemal Paşa merhumun ve çocuğum vakf olunmuṣtur, sene 1304, Recep. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.