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.
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.
Abstract: Collection of treatises, mostly in verse, on medicine.Binding note: Modern full leather with blind-stamping and tooling.Contents: 1. leaves 1(bis)b-3b: Mujarrabāt-i Abī Z̲arr. Metrical treatise on medicaments attributed to Abū Dharr, a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad.Contents: 2. leaves 3b-7a: Notes.Contents: 3. leaves 7b-88b: Ṭibb-i Shihābī / Shihāb al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Nāgawrī. A metrical compendium of medicine, also known as Shifāʼ al-maraz̤.Contents: 4. leaf 89a: Dar shinākhtan-i mazzah-i duhn. Short poem on popular medicine.Contents: 5. leaves 89b-90b: Fāyidah dar shinākhtan-i amrāz̤ az bawl-i marīz̤. Extract on diagnosing illness using urine.Contents: 6. leaves 91a-91b: Notes and verses.Ms. codex.Title from text 3, leaf 88b.Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on second leaf. Record follows erroneous foliation.Physical description: 16 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on brown glazed, laid Arabic paper. Poems in two columns. Rubrication and catchwords; first and last pages of text 3 framed in red. First leaf is pasted to another sheet of paper. Extensive water damage, but text still legible; a few paper repairs.Origin: 22 Ṣafar 1105 H 23 October 1693, by Nūr Muḥammad khalaf-i Muḥammad Qāyim ʻurifa bi- Kanbū Hāshimī (leaf 88b).Incipit (text 3): نخستىن کنم نوک خامه روان * بتوحىد پروردگار جهان
Abstract: History of Tīmūr (Tamerlane).Binding note: Red leather. The covers have a gold stamped central scalloped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces. The outer border consists of fillets and a large guilloche. Paper pastedown and free endpaper. Traces of a now wanting flap.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 500b).Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within two gold rules outlined in black, with a blue outline. Dark cream laid paper, glossy, hardly translucid. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf with text. Inscriptions on fol. 501a-b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (omits the first fol.). Stained with water.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece executed in gold, blue, and colors, on fol. 2b.Chiefly quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.Spine label (vertical; partly wanting) with title in French: "Aly Al-Yezdy Histoire de Tamerlan".Three pieces of paper with printed text on the pastedown of the upper cover, the first with a notice in French describing the manuscript under no. 320 ; the second with the name "M. Silvestre de sacy" and inscriptions in pencil ; the third bearing the following text: "Le Ch. Ferrão de Castelbranco 70, Avenue des Champs-Elysées".Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khalīl Allāh ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ḥusayn al-Shamītī(?), Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Awwal 887 June 27, 1482 (fol. 500b, in Arabic).Incipit: مدا كثيرا مباركا لمن توتى الملك من تشاء وتنزع الملك ممن تشاء وصلوه طيبه دايمه على خاتم الانبياء وسيد الاولياء محمد واله ... مقاله اول در ذكر صادرات احوال حضرت صاحب قراني انار الله برهانه بنام خدائي كه از نامه اوستExplicit: خلايق مرفه ز احسان او زمين وزمان تحت فرمان او الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد وآله اجمعين م
Abstract: "Illustrated copy of a Persian version of Qazwīnī's Book of marvels (version (a) in Storey's descriptionAbstract: Persian Literature (1927-)Abstract: vol. IIAbstract: 1Abstract: p. 125). Table of contents in the preamble (fol. 3a-5b). This copy is illustrated with 180 miniatures (most of them small) and 11 diagrams. Several elements show that this copy is not of the highest quality (text crossed outAbstract: ʻunwān left blank or with title written in a rough mannerAbstract: etc.). In additionAbstract: some miniatures are defective (see illustration of the Sun emerging behind the constellation of the LionAbstract: fol. 16b)."Binding note: Upper and lower covers are now detached and stored in a separate sleeve. Brown leather, with central panel with a deep gilt stamped central oval with double pendants, all outlined in gold with radiating flecks. Similarly tooled corner-pieces. The border consists of deep sunk gilt stamped cartouches, rosaces and corners ; gilt painting between stamps. Doublure : Red leather stamped and tooled in gilt, with inscriptions in cartouches reading: "Ḥubb al-fīrmān(?)" and "qadā tū āmān(?)" on one cover, "Muqarrir al-khāqān(?)" and a damaged and illegible inscription, probably starting with "Muḥammad"on the other.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 3a.Physical description: 20 lines to the page ; written in nastaʻlīq, in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and fiber visible. Margins of most leaves repaired. The text is framed within a medium large gold line outlined in black, with a blue outline on the outer edge (faded on several leaves). The miniatures are framed in one medium large gold line outline in black ; some miniatures go over the text frame (see e.g. fol. 9b, 87b, 193a, 236b). One small miniature on the margin (the deer on fol. 237b). Occasional lines of poetry and annotations written by another hand on the margins (see fol. 197b, 227b-228a). Dampness damage (stains, ink transfer from one page to the next), with loss of text. Modern foliation in pencil (blank after fol. 116, 179, 229).Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in opaque watercolors, ink, and gilt (fol. 1a); margins of fol. 1b-2a decorated with flowers in gold. The same floral motif appears on the sides of the colophon (fol. 240a).Decoration: Contains 165 miniatures in opaque watercolors and ink, representing planets (fol. 14b-18b), constellations such as Cassiopea (fol. 21b), inhabitants of exotic and fabulous islands, such as the inhabitants of Sumatra (fol. 56b) and of Wāqwāq (fol. 56b), fabulous animals, and monsters (see fol. 9b, 69b, 189b), Archangels (fol. 32b-34a), and various plants (fol. 107b on) and animals (fol. 196b on). Most miniatures are executed on a blue or gold sky, with Chinese clouds, with mountain or rocks behind which animals or human figures appear ; streams and trees are other common motifs.Decoration: Contains diagrams in gold and red.Origin: The copy (or the text?) is dated Ṣafar 895 1489 or 865 1460 and signed ʻAbd Allāh son of ʻAlī Bey Damāvandī in the colophon (fol. 240a). According to Moghadam, illustrations and binding probably from 18th century India.Incipit: العظمة لك والبراه لجلالك اللهم يا قايم الذات ومفيض الخيرات واجب الوجود وواهب العقول ... اما بعد همى كويد اصغر العباد زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود الكمونى القزوينى تولاه الله بفضله كه چون بحكم الاهى مفرقت اهل ووطن اتفاق افتادExplicit: ابو ريحان كويد كه بنده التماس كردم تا انرا حاضر آوردند ومن آن را ديدم وتعجب كردم تمت الكتاب بعون ملك الوهاب بتاريخ شهر صفر ختم بالخير والظفر سنه 895 (او 865) خاك پاى اهل ايمان عبد الله ولد علىبيك دماوندى م م م
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).
Full 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.
Abstract: Treatise on Imāmī fiqh translated into Persian (see fol. 1b, l. 7), comprising 18 parts, from Kitāb al-ṭahārah to Kitāb al-qiṣaṣ.Binding note: Upper and lower covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Leather doublure. The spine and the edges of the covers have been repaired.Ms. codex.Title from colophon (fol. 161b).23 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Glazed dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Some leaves apparently wanting between fol. 8 and 9. Some leaves are mended (see fol. 1 and 2). Marginal notes. Inscriptions on fol. 1a. Seals on fol. 1a and 161b.Copied in 977 (colophon, fol. 161bisb).Incipit: الحمد لله العليّ الذّي اجتبى جيبة المجتبي واصطفى صفيه المصطفى ... وبعد پوشيده نماند كه بنابر اشارت واجب الطاعةExplicit: واكر قاتل ان متعدد باشند لازم شود بر هر يک کفاره کامل
Abstract: Illustrated Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, including a book of spells describing incantation and talismans, and 56 painted illustrations.Binding note: Blind stamped and tooled red leather.Ms. codex.Title from end of text (written with tāʾ marbūtah).Physical description: 11 lines per page ; written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink. Arabic written in naskh. From fol. 50b on: written in nastaʻlīq in purple ink. Wove paper with embossed seal with inscription in Cyrillic on a few leaves. Annotations in English on the margins of the first leaves. Picture representing a young man placed at the end of the copy.56 illustrations in watercolor representing the signs of the Zodiac, demons linked to these signs, constellations, birth of stars, and archangels such as Mikāʾīl and Jibrāʾīl.Origin: According to note on fol. 1a, copied in Iṣfahān, Shaʻbān 1324 H. Sept.-Oct. 1906 by ʻAlī Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nāʾinī(?) al-Muṣāḥib. At the end of several texts accompanying the illustrations is the name Raṣṣād(?) B̄āshī, son of the late Jaʻfar, with dates ranging from 1330 to 1339 H. 1911 to 1921.Incipit: بسم ... بكير از زير قدم او يكمشت خاك واين جعارا هفت بخواند ... بسم ... اللهم اله السموات والارض اعجل اعجل اعجل ارجع ارجع ارجع حب الخير
Abstract: First volume of an anti-Christian polemic written by a convert to Islam who emigrated to Iran during the reign of Safavid Shāh Sultān Ḥusayn (r. 1694-1722). The text was originally written in a European language then translated by the author into Persian. The complete work is supposed to consist of four volumes; however, only the first volume appears to be extant (Āghā Buzurg, XXV, 179).Binding note: Limp brown leather with tooled fillets; spine reinforced with cloth.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1b.Physical description: 13-26 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on modern paper. Fol. 90a-95b written in purple ink; fol. 107-108 on lined paper. Rubrication in purple; catchwords on most pages. A few marginal notes. Paginated in Arabic script beginning on fol. 1a. fol. 97b blank, but no lacuna in text. Inserts between fol. 54-55, 105-106. Some leaves detached and edges of paper dog-eared.Origin: Copy completed 16 Shaʻbān 1346 H. 8 February 1928.Incipit: سپاس بىقىاس صانع بى نظىر را سزاوار است که گلستانجهان از آفتاب سنع آورده و بوستان فلک از اظهار موضوعات درىاى وجودش قطره ىست
Abstract: Collection of two treatises on astronomy and astrology.Binding note: Dark brown leather over cardboards. Blind-tooled border.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-141a : Kifāyat al-taʻlīm dar ṣināʻat-i tanjīm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī.Contents: 2. fol. 142b-181b : Kitāb-i S̲amarah-ʾi Baṭlamiyūs dar aḥkām-i nujūm / Muḥammad ibn Masʻūd al-Ghaznawī?.Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloger, from the title of the first text in the collection.Physical description: European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and 182 are later additions.Origin: According to colophons, copied in Shaʻbān 1232 June-July 1817 (fol. 141a, 181b)