Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: جواهر التواریخ (centre column). حكايتها (margin column).Hand: 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 1889-1953.2 works by Salmān Qazvīnī on the subjects of Timurids, Mogul Empire, Tatars, and Tales.
ملخص: ملخص باللغة الفارسية لتعاليمه الفلسفية الخاصة لأبي علي الحسين بن عبد الله، المعروف باسم ابن سينا (توفي ١٠٣٧م)، كتبه من أجل الأمير الكاكوي علاء الدولة أبو جعفر محمد بن رستم دشمنزيار (حكم حوالي ١٠٠٨-١٠٤١م).ينقسم النص إلى ثلاثة أقسام:علم منطق (صص. ٢٥٨ظ-٢٧١و)؛الميتافيزيقيا ("علم برين"، صص. ٢٧١ظ-٢٩٥ظ)؛الفيزياء ("علم زيرين وعلم طبيعي"، صص. ٢٩٥ظ-٣١٠و).غالبًا ما يعرف النص بالعنوان "دانشنامه علائى" (الموسوعة العلائية).ملخص: Persian summary of his own philosophical teachings by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), written for the Kākūyid amir ʿAlāʾ al-Dawlah Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyār (علاء الدولة أبو جعفر محمد بن رستم دشمنزيار, reg. ca 1008-1041).The text is divided into three sections:Logic (علم منطق, ff. 258v-271r);Metaphysics (علم برين, ff. 271v-295v);Physics (علم زيرين و علم طبيعي, ff. 295v-310r).The text is often known by the title
The Book of Wisdom for ʿAlāʾ(دانشنامه علائى).الوصف المادي: صص. ٢٥٨ظ-٣١٠و
Abstract: An incomplete copy of Ḥilyat al-muttaqīn, from bāb 2 to the end.Binding note: Full brown leather with stamped fillets; front cover partly detached.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a, 195a, by later hands.On front cover: "322" in Arabic script.Physical description: 20 lines per page; written in neat naskh by two hands in black on tan and beige glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; Arabic quotations vocalized. Some marginal notes. Many leaves torn and/or repaired; fol. 1-26, 31-34 detached from textblock. Insert between fol. 132, 133. Some damp staining and smudging.Origin: Text completed in Rajab 1079 H. December 1668. This copy completed Rabīʻ al-Thānī, 1124 H. May 1712 (fol. 195b).
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. Four miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 10¾ × 7¼ in.Hand: Small but 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."The first mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah. For the other three surviving volumes of a five volume set copied by the same anonymous scribesee: MS. Elliott 408MS. Elliott 317and MS. Elliott 339."
خمسۀ نظامىFull catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Makhzan al-asrār (ff. 1b-27a). Khusraw va-Shīrīn (ff. 28b-114a). Laylá va-Majnūn (ff. 114b-178a). Haft Paykar (ff. 179b-249a). Sharaf-nāmah-ʼi Iskandarī (ff. 249b-337a). Iqbāl-nāmah-ʼi Iskandarī (ff. 337b-388a).Decoration: Unwan. Miniatures. Decorative borders.Hand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Persian manuscripts with additional enhancements by the Fihrist project team."
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: "Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Persian manuscripts with additional enhancements by the Fihrist project team."1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3.
خمسۀ نظامیFull catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Makhzan al-asrār (ff. 2a-32a). Khusraw va-Shīrīn (ff. 32b-101a). Laylá va-Majnūn (ff. 101b-158a). Haft Paykar (ff. 158b-221a). Kitāb-i Sharafnāmah-ʼi Iskandarī (ff. 221b-300a). Kitāb-i Iqbālnamah-ʼi Iskandarī (ff. 300b-346a).Decoration: Unwan. 42 miniatures.Dimensions: 11¼ × 6¼ 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.
Abstract: Two dīvāns of Persian poetry with 19th-century European plates.Binding note: Quarter cloth with leather covers.Contents: 138W, leaves 3b-28b: Dīvān-i Bīdil -- 139W, leaves 30b-161b: Dīvān-i Shams.Ms. composite codex.Title from leaf 1a and label on back cover by a later hand.Additional label on back cover reads "Deevanabadeel & Shumseetubrez.""Three 19th-century European plates from R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts have been inserted: Full Dress (between leaves 13-14)no. 73January 11822. A View of the Italian Opera House (between leaves 45-46)no. 81September 11822. Evening Dress (between leaves 143-144)August 11822 no number given."'Physical descriptiontext 1: 15 lines per pagein two columns; written in nastaʻliq with elements of shikastah in black on cream glazedlaid Arabic paper. Text framed in black and red with double red lines separating columns. Catchwords; text block has been trimmed. Insect damageresulting in occasional loss of text.'Physical description, text 2: 11 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on gray glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Insect damage.Origin: Text 2 dated 1 Jumādá 1 1249 H 16 September 1833, by Muḥammad Z̤iyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad Zayn al-Ḥaqq ʻAbbāsī al-Aḥmadābādī al-Gujarātī (leaf 161b). Text 1 likely from the early 19th century.
Abstract: "Şahidî İbrahim's Persian divanAbstract: together with his Tuhfe-yi ŞahidîAbstract: a Persian-Turkish dictionary in verse."Binding note: Olive cloth with embossed floral pattern and light green paper around borders on covers. Brown leather on spine and cover edges. Pastedowns in marbled paper.Contents: 1. Fol. 1b-51b: Dīvān-i Shāhidī.Contents: 2. Fol. 52a-74a: Tuhfe-yi Şahidî.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1b.Text 1 is dated last 10 days of Ramaḍan 932 (1526) -- colophon (fol. 52b).Text 1 is written diagonally in two columns in small nastaʻlīq in black ink, with 7 lines per page. The text is is inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. It has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) on fol. 1b, beautifully executed in gold leaf with blue, orange, black and white watercolors. Text 2 is written in two columns in very small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication and with 17 lines per page. The text is inside a frame outlined in red ink, except on ff. 52b-53a, where the frame is in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed paper with visible chain lines, different for the two texts, with several olive colored leaves in text 1. Text 2 has a table of contents on fol. 52a, and has some marginal annotations throughout.
Abstract: Incomplete copy.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 17 lines per page, in two columns; written in nastaʻliq in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. One insert. Damp staining, mainly marginal. Fol. 1-10, 463-472 ragged, with some paper tears and repairs. Incomplete at beginning and end.
Binding: Half leather.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Ghazalīyāt, Fardīyāt, Mukhammas, and Rubāʻīyāt.Dimensions: 22.6 × 14 cm (size of leaf).Hand: Nastaʻlīq small shikasta on field of page and around margins; brownish Indian paper.Record origin: Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.1 copy of Dīvān-i-Ummīd.
Abstract: Illuminated copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ.Binding note: Lacquered binding, with central panel consisting of a floral arabesque with birds and animal heads developing around a central eight pointed star. Orange leather doublure elaborately tooled in gilt.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: 3 columns to the page, with 15 lines per column (outer column written diagonally with 10 lines to the column). Written in nastaʻlīq. Entries in gold and blue.Decoration: Six full-page miniatures on fol. 1b, 2a, 67b, 107a, 132b, 133a. The manuscript opens and ends with two full-page miniatures (fol.1b-2a and 132b-133a), with floral decor in gold on the margin. Miniatures are also found on fol. 67b (dated 926 or 936 H.) and on fol. 107a.Decoration: Illuminations in gold and colors and margins decorated with flowers and animals executed in gold on fol. 2b, 3a, 68a, 107a, 132b and 133a.Decoration: The two first pages of the text (fol. 2b-3a) are magnificently illuminated, in blue, gold, and colors, with a decor of flowers, trees, and animals in gold on the margin. Similar decoration on the last two pages of the text (fol. 131b-132a).Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Jumādá al-Thānī 926 1520 (or 936? 1530, fol. 132a). Miniature 2 (fol. 2a) bears the same date.Incipit: الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كاسا ونولها