1. Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin.

الوصف:

Abstract: Album of miniatures and specimens of calligraphy of Indian origin. Described by Mika Natif.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger.The album consists of 55 folios measuring 485 x 280 mm.Origin: The signed paintings and calligraphies are attributed to Mīr ʻAlī, Sulṭān ʻAlī al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad ʻAẓīm al-Ikthīr, ʻImād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī (= Shāh Muḥammad Muʻīn ʻAlī Tajallī Chishtī, fol. 32a), Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh, Muḥammad ʻAlī, Muḥammad Badīʻ al-Iṣfahānī, Tajallī ʻAlī Shāh, Muḥammad Karīm, Anūp Chator (Chatar, Chitor: see Titley), Mīr Muḥammad Māh Ḥusaynī, Zayn al-Ḥaqq, Zarrīn Raqam, Muḥammad Afḍal, Ghulām Muṣṭafá Khān, Muḥammad Aṭhar, Asad Allāh, Mughalkhān, Ghulām Jamāl Allāh Khān, Sayyid ʻAlī Būkhārī Rūshan Raqam, Jawāhir Raqam-i Thānī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Muḥammad ʻAlī Gawhar, Muḥammad al-Fakhkhār, Abū al-Baqāʼ al-Mūsawī, Kifāyat Khān, Ismāʻīl, Ilyās Bahādur, Aḥmad Shāh, Muḥammad Dalīr, and date from 1014H. 1630 or 31 to 1189 1775. Other undated paintings can be dated to 18th-19th century India and 16th or early 17th century Central Asia. One piece is dated Awrangābād, 1203 1788 or 9 (fol. 22a).

2. دىوان شمس تبرىزى.

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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.

3. ديوان حافظ
ديوان

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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

4. ديوان مولانا كمال

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Abstract: Collection of poems in Persian.Binding note: Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of red leather over paper pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are similarly tooled and gold painted, with a central mandorla linked to the outer frame by an horizontal and a vertical fillet, and gold painted corner pieces. The envelope flap has a similar decoration. The doublure of the upper and lower covers has a tooled and painted decoration with a central mandorla and corner pieces in orange, green and gold. The doublure of the envelope flap has a similar decoration.Ms. codex.Title from the illuminated opening (fol. 1b).12 lines per page, in two columns with central headpieces, written in nastaʻlīq using black ink. Gold, black and blue fillets form the outer frame; a single red fillet divides the columns. Thin dark cream paper with laid lines visible. On fol. 1b: illuminated headpiece. On fol. i(a): label with mention in Arabic "raqm 309" ; inscription in Arabic script "Sayyid ʻAlī Kitāb al-miʻrāj".Copied in Muḥarram 980 or 1098 by Yādkār(?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Niẓām (colophon, fol. 254a).Collation: Paper ; fol. i (endpaper, with inscription and labels) + 254 + i (endpaper).Incipit: از پدهنت بوىى آمد بگلستانها کردند پر از نكهت گلها همه دامانها با رشته همه چاکى شد دوخته وين طرفه كز رشته زلف تست اين چاک گريبانهاExplicit: خال در ملک جمالش نه مکست از سر زلف كاندرين ملک چو طاوس نگارست مکس

5. غزلياتا بابا فغاني.

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Abstract: "Collection of the author's ghazalsAbstract: arranged alphabetically; incomplete at beginning."Binding note: Limp red leather with black leather doublures.Ms. codex.Title from leaf 2a.Manuscript erroneously foliated beginning on the first flyleaf; record follows erroneous foliation. There are seven front flyleaves, of which only the first four are numbered; the first leaf of the text is numbered 5.Physical description: 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in small nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords. Marginal damp staining and a few repairs.Origin: Likely 18th century; collated by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Shuʻāʻ al-Mulk al-Shīrāzī on 8 Shawwāl 1354 H 3 January 1936 (leaf 2a).

6. مراسلات

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Contents: صورة رقعة بخط مرحوم ميرزاكانى كه به ولد شهريارى كاشى نوشته (2أ) -- كتابت كه از جانب بندكان در كاه اعلى بجانب خواند كار در جواب او نوشته اند -- از زبان شاه قلى سلطان بدين محمد خان او ز يك نوشته (3ب) -- فتحنامه خراسان (5ب) -- مكتوبى كه نواب قاضى جهان بنواب خانى در باب نواب علامى نوشته (14أ) -- از جانب نواب كامياب بنواب عاليجاه خواندكار (18ب) -- ... انشاء جناب مير روح الله (30أ) -- ... -- تعريف پادشاه (49أ) -- تعريف ... از مولانا محتشم (50أ) -- تعريف از كمال اسمعيل -- انشاء جناب مير روح الله (50ب) -- كتابت كه حضرت شيخ ابو القاسم كازرونى بمولانا سلينى كه در هندست نوشته اند (59ب) -- انشاء نواب علامى امير سيد شريف (61أ) -- ... -- مولانا عبد الواسع بخواجه كمال الدين حسين نوشته (400أٔ) -- مولانا عبد الواسع بخواجه مجد الدين محمد نوشته (401أ) -- مولانا عبد الواسع بيكى از وزرا نوشته (401ب)

7. مفاتيح الغيب.

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Abstract: Collection of Shiʻite texts.Binding note: Limp dark brown leather with blind-tooled fillets; spine repaired.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-31b: Mafātīḥ al-ghayb / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 2. leaves 31b-34b: Tarjamat ḥadīth al-jabr wa-al-tafwīḍ / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 3. leaves 34b-37a: Risālah fī al-zakāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 4. leaves 37a-40a: al-Kaffārāt / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 5. leaves 40b-44b: Māl al-nāṣib / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Contents: 6. leaves 44b-49b: Sharḥ al-ziyārah al-maʼthūrah / Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Qummī. Title from leaf 49b, line 14. Text completed Rajab 1085 H. in Mashhad.Contents: 7. leaves 49b-51b: Ajwibah ʻan asʼilat Majd al-Dīn Shūshtarī.Contents: 8. leaves 51b-52a: Nubadh min aḥkām sujūd al-tilāwah / Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī.Contents: 9. leaves 52a-54a: Ḥadīth on the eight doors of heaven and hell.Contents: 10. leaves 54b-87a: Asrār al-ṣalāh / al-Shahīd al-Thānī.Contents: 11. leaves 87a-101b: Shukūk al-ṣalāh / Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī al-Majlisī.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in naskh (Arabic) and nastaʻliq (Persian) in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. First leaf detached. Damp staining across top of manuscript and some marginal paper repairs. Some loss of text on last leaf due paper loss and staining.Origin: Likely 18th century.

8. Ṣad dar ... etc..

الوصف:

Abstract: Collection of three Zoroastrian texts, one of which contains fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.Binding note: European-style full brown leather with gold-stamped fillets and gold stamping on spine.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-60a: Ṣad dar.Contents: 2. fol. 62b-121b: Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah.Contents: 3. fol. 123a-208a: Dar shāyast va nashāyast.Ms. codex.On spine: "Ardai Veraf Namah" in Western script tooled in gold.Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on unglazed, laid Arabic paper. Text 2 in two columns and framed in red. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and insect damage; edges ragged. Binding is loose and some gatherings are detached. Text 2 has fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.