Unidentified religious treatise (risālah) - Persian manuscript
The incomplete fragment of a manuscript without a binding is a religious treatise with many Arabic excerpts and the commentary and text in Persian.. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title devised by cataloger. S... More
Mas̲navī maʻnavī - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from folio 2a. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream-colored Middle Eastern slightly polished paper; black ink with rubrication; richly decorated title page, page following title pag... More
Dīvān - Persian manuscript - Public domain illuminated manuscript
Poems of Ḥāfiẓ. Manuscript. Persian. Title and author from colophon. Written by Munʻim al-Dīn al-Awḥadī al-Ḥusaynī. Iran. Paper; buff color laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborat... More
Unnamed Sufi treatise - Persian manuscript
Untitled Sufi text on meditation containing both poetry and prose. Manuscript. Persian; colophon in Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī (calligrapher)--Colophon. Probably written ... More
Unidentified treatise on prosody by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Najātī al-Nīsā...
Unnamed work on prosody by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Najātī al-Nīsābūrī. Manuscript. Persian. Title from flyleaf: "ʻAruz̤-i Jāmī, 934." Flyleaf: "al-faqīr istiṣaḥḥahu Mīr Muḥammad ʻĀrif ibn-i Jamīl ... More
Kitāb-i Būstān-i Shaykh Saʼdī raḥimahu Allāh
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2b. Written by Sulṭānmuḥammad al-Kātib. Probably written in Iran. Paper; thick, dark cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan on... More
Kitāb-i Saḥr-i hilāl - Public domain illuminated manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Scribe not indicated. Written in Iran. Paper; fine, beige paper; manuscript opens with a pair of gorgeous illuminated opening pages, separated by tissue; black ink; extremely fine black scr... More
Nizami Ganjavi - Makhzan al-asrār ; Khulāṣat al-khamsah
Manuscript. Persian. Each work has separate title ; title of first work fol. 1b; title for second work, fol. 82a. Each section has different date: Makhzan al-asrār dated 28 Rajab 954 [9 September 1547]; second... More
ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined; probably Iran or Turkey. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate... More
Timurnamah - Persian manuscript
Persian manuscript of uncertain title or and author; does not appear to be the Timurnanah of Hātifī. Manuscript. Persian. Title from container. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably India or Iran. Paper; thi... More
Yūsuf va Zulaykhā - Persian manuscript
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 visib... More
Gulistān - Persian manuscript - Public domain illuminated manuscript
Manuscript. Persian; first 67 leaves have Turkish translation and there is a brief poem in Ottoman Turkish at end. Title based on comparison with printed editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Name of scribe not indic... More
Tuḥfat al-salāt - Persian manuscript
Treatise in eight chapters on ritual prayer. Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper; thick, cream-color laid paper with vertical chain lines; no v... More
Az̲ān-i ṣuḥb - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unw... More
Subḥat al-abrār - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from unwan. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran or India. Paper: cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and gold highlighting betw... More
Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī - Persian manuscript
The poems of Ḥafiẓ. Manuscript. Persian. Title page lacking, title from bottom edge. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably copied in Iran. Paper: cream color laid paper of varying thickness; no visible chain... More
Selections from Ḥāfiẓ by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī
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 l... More
Dīvān-i Shāhī - Persian manuscript
Collected poems of Amīr Shāhī Sabzavarī. Manuscript. Persian. Title from folio 1b. Probably written in Iran. Paper: Middle-Eastern laid paper in various colors (including shades of cream, orange, tan, laven... More
Durrat al-tāj - Persian manuscript
Shiite prayer book; consists of prayers to be said on the visitation of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib's tomb. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title from folio 1a. Fol. 6a: Ibn Rustam Khān Ṣafī Qulī. Probabl... More
Khāvarānʹnāmah - Persian manuscript
Long poem on the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. Manuscript. Persian. [Source of title] [Statement of responsibility] Written in Iran or India. Paper; fine quality, cream-colored, thin, and polished; script is i... More
Collection of choicest poems - Persian manuscript
Incomplete collection of poems. Manuscript. Persian. Title from container. Name of scribe not indicated Written in Iran. Paper; dark cream-colored laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; text encl... More
Nizami Ganjavi - Khamsah - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied from container. Scribe not identified. Written in India? Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate... More
Gulistān - Persian manuscript - Public domain document scan
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 ... More
Majmūʻ-i khānī - Persian manuscript
Islamic law as practiced in India. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Scribe is either Yaḥyá Ḥusaynī or, unidentified. Added colophon claims that the work was either Murtaẓá Khānī or by Sayyid ʻA... More
ʻArūz̤-i Mawlānā Jāmī ; Qāfiyah-ʼi Mawlānā Jāmī ; Anonymous treatise o...
Two works on prosody by the poet Jāmī, 1414-1492; and an incomplete, anonymous work on astronomy. Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Title of third work supplied by cataloger. Written in Iran? Paper: thin, p... More
al-Mujallad al-avval min kalām Mīr Khvand ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, polished laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; both sections have alm... More
Ḥikāyat-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl
Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Written by Badīʻ al-Dīn valad-i Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Rukn al-Dīn... More
Īn kitāb-i Kanz-i daqāʼiq
Persian translation of Nasafī's Kanz al-daqāʼiq. Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Jamāl Muḥammad valad-i Muḥammad Ashraf. Probably written in India. Paper; coarse cream color laid paper with ... More
Yūsuf va Zulaykhā min taṣnīf-i Ḥaz̤rat Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān-i Jāmī
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Paper; dark cream-color unpolished, coarse laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; severely worm damaged; ... More
Pādishāhnāmah - Persian manuscript
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 h... More
Kitāb-i Majālis al-muʼminīn - Public domain document scan
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 v... More
Kitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī - Public domain document scan
Treatis on Islamic ethics and religious life. Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Unexplained date at end of text: 843 / 1439 or 1440. Scribe not identified. Written in either India or Iran. Paper; cream-c... More
Inshaʼ-i Kamāl al-Dīn - Public domain document scan
Treatise on the forms of letters on various subjects in all styles. Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a in a different hand. Copied by Muhammad Fāḍil. Probably written in India. Paper; heavy cream-color l... More
Dīvān-i Rūḥī - Persian manuscript
Dīvān of a certain Rūhī, perhaps the divan poet Bağdatlı Ruhî (died 1605). Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Written by "al-Jūrī". Probably written in Turkey. Paper; richly illustrated. Nastaʻliq... More
Farhang-i Rashīdī - Persian manuscript
Dictionary of the Persian language. Manuscript. Persian. Title from flyleaf. Author from accompanying material. Probably written in Iran. Paper; thin to medium thick cream color good quality laid paper with no ... More
Collection of Arabic religious and ascetic sayings and adages with Per...
Collection of Arabic religious and Sufi adages with Persian explanations following each adage. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title devised by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper;... More
Sūrat al-Qāf - Persian manuscript
Sūrat al-Ahqāf with interlinear Persian translation. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. [Source of title] Scribe not identified. Written in India. Paper; cream or light beige color paper in very poor condition; ... More
Qajar cosmological talismanic work - Persian manuscript
Cosmological talismanic work with numerous illustrations, numerical tables and charms. Manuscript. Persian. Title devised by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in Iran. Paper; heavy but soft cream-colore... More
Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentified poems i...
An incomplete compilation including an Arabic treatise on the sultanate and caliphate based on a hadith of Kaʻb al-Akhbār with an interlinear Persian translation, an Arabic treatise on the legal division of hu... More
Risālah-i Firdawsīyah - Persian manuscript
Anonymous miscellany in prose and poetry dealing with spring, education, medical matters, trades, military matters and finally a lengthy section in praise of an unnamed individual. Manuscript. Persian. Caption ... More
Munājāt - Persian manuscript - Public domain illuminated manuscript
Munājāt (Supplication) of ʻAli ibn Abī Ṭālib. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Caption title. Paper; moderately heavy cream colored paper; elaborately illuminated; text in gold (folio 1b and 2a) 2b to end b... More
Pandnāmah. - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title based on comparison with printed edtions. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Turkey. Papaer; light cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines a... More
Anvār-i Suhaylī - Persian manuscript
Persian translation of Kalīlah va Dimna Manuscript. Persian. No title; identified on the basis of other manuscripts of the same work. Name of scribe not indicated. "George Gore, Sept. 23d, 1806"--Flyleaf. Writ... More
Essays on entertainment - Persian manuscript
Illustrated erotic work. Manuscript. Persian. Title from paper label on spine. Scribe not identified. Written in Hyderabad, India. Paper; beige, rather stiff, heavy paper; the script is in black and red and the... More
Inshā-yi Khalīfah - Persian manuscript
Collection of the author's letters; widely used as a school text for teaching Persian letter-writing. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe: Written in India. Paper; coarse tan laid paper wit... More
Collection of short texts or extracts from various manuscripts in Pers...
Collection of texts concerning the reign of Mahmud Begara, Sultan of Gujarat. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Card inserted in manuscript: "Events during Mahmud Shah of India--Arabic and Persian; Mogul period -... More
Gulistān - Persian manuscript - Public domain illuminated manuscript
Fragmentary , highly decorated and illuminated copy of Saʻdī's Gulistān Manuscript. Persian Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Central Asia. Paper; heavy cream color laid paper l... More
Hāz̲ihi al-nuskhah musammá Hasht bihisht min taṣnīf-i Amīr Khusraw qud...
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 chai... More
Qaṣīdah - Persian manuscript - Public domain document scan
Elegies for the Shīʻah imāms. Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Possibly written in Iran. Paper; light cream color laid paper with faint vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines... More
Qurʼān - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī. Written in Iran. Paper; thin, cream color polished paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, b... More
Incomplete treatise on Shīʻah apologetics and the imams
Manuscript. Persian with passages in Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined. Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a cro... More
Kullīyāt-i Ḥāfiẓ - Persian manuscript
The poems of Ḥāfiẓ with an anonymous Ottoman Turkish translation and partial commentary. Manuscript. Persian and Turkish (Arabic script). Title from fol. 1b, first section. Name of scribe not indicated. Writ... More
Nizami Ganjavi - Sikandarnānah min taṣnīf-i Mawlawī Niẓāmī,
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; coarse light brown laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with section headings... More
Sharḥ-i Jām-i jahān numā
Book of historical and other anecdotes, beginning with anecdotes about nature. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Written by Sayyid Raḥim ʻAlī and Shaykh Walī Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr. Date from colopho... More
Waqiat-i-Nadiri (History of Nadir Shah)
Historical study of Iran and Afghanistan during the reign of Nādir Shāh, 1688-1747. Manuscript. Persian. Title from frontispiece. "The manuscript WAQA-I-NADIRI contains memoirs of Nadir Shah compiled by Moham... More
Tārīkh-i Nādirī - Persian manuscript
Manuscript is incomplete; text breaks off abruptly at second word of line 5, leaf 257a. Manuscript. Persian Title from frontispiece. Former owner's bookplate pasted inside front cover, "Thomas Munro, 23." Place... More
Majālis al-muʼminīn - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Written in Iran? Paper; unpolished cream color paper with not visible watermarks; text of fol. 1b-3a enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold, res... More
Nuskhah--i Tavārīkh-i Sind
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 v... More
Faqrʹnāmah, Islamic manuscript, Sufism
On Sufism, probably written in Afghanistan between 1772-1793 during the reign of Tīmūr Shāh Durrānī, 1742 or 1743-1793. Manuscript. "Risālah-ʼi qalamī-i Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Kharqānī"--Cover. In Persian.
Persian calligraphy studies. - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian Title from container. Written by Salmān Bint ʻAlī Pāshā. Place of writing not determined. Paper; heavy, reinforced laid paper with vertical chain lines and no visible watermarks; section... More
Sāqīʹnāmah
Manuscript. Chagatai; some Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran; possibly between Tabriz and Shiraz. Paper; cream color laid paper; opening page (detached) has unwan in blue ... More
Ṭūṭīʹnāmah - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color laid paper of varying thickness, with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; black ink with r... More
Kitāb-i qiṣṣah-ʼi Kāmʹrūp - Public domain document scan
Manuscript. Persian Caption title. Name of scribe not indicated; perhaps written by Captain William Franklin. Written in India. Paper; think, polished, cream-color laid paper; no visible chain lines or watermar... More
Qarābādīn-i Maʻṣūmī - Persian manuscript
Treatise on medicine and medicinal plants. Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Name of scribe not indicated Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color Indian paper; black ink with rubrication; numerous ... More
Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
Complete works of the poet Saʻdi. Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran. Paper; light cream-color, bleached and polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or wat... More
Bahāristān-i Jāmī - Persian manuscript
Collection of memorable sayings, witticisms, anecdotes, etc., in prose and poetry in 8 books; concerning (book 1) Sufis and saints, 2) sayings of the philosophers, 3) justice of kings, 4) generosity, 5) love, 6... More
Ātashkadah - Persian manuscript
Biographical dictionary of Persian poets with extensive excerpts from their works. Manuscript. Persian Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not indicated. Date on lower left corner of fol. 240b: "1210". Probably... More
Gūlistān, taṣnīf-i Ḥaz̤rat Shaykh Saʻdī Shīrāzī
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper: thick cream color Indian paper; no borders; black ink with rubrication; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq;... More
Bustān-i Saʻdī - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Scribe not identified. Possibly written in India. Date on fol. 1a; manuscript may be older. Paper; medium cream color paper with no visible watermarks; fol. 1b has flora... More
Shāh Jihān - Persian manuscript
Biography of the Mogul Emperor Shahjahan. Manuscript. Persian. Title from container; label and pencilled information in manuscript erroneously identifies the work as the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī. Name of scribe... More
Muḥammad Kāẓim - ʻAlāmgīrnāmah - Persian manuscript
History of the first ten years ofAurangzeb. Manuscript. Persian. Title from 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Name of former owner, "A.G. Ellis 19.5.27" on frontispiece. Written in India. Paper; varying cream t... More
Unidentified Qajar-era poetry anthology
Fragmentary collection of poems and selections from poems. Manuscript. Persian. Title devised by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in Iran. Paper; Nastaʻliq and shikastah. [Collation] Library of Congres... More
Nizami Ganjavi - Iskandarnāmah - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Papaer; thick unpolished Indian paper; some pages colored pink; text within ruled border of three fine lines in black an... More
Unidentified collection of poems - Persian manuscript
Collection of poems by Ḥāfiẓ and poems based on lines of his poetry. Manuscript. Persian. Title devised by cataloger. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Label on container incorrectly i... More
Kitāb-i Gulistān - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper: coarse brownish poorly laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; paper in poor condition and... More
Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī - Persian manuscript
Ethical work by Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. Manuscript. Persian. Title from spine label. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran. Paper; cream-color polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or wate... More
Chahār Injil-i Muqaddas - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon; each Gospel has separate caption title in red ink. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined; perhaps Iran. Paper; cream color, commercial laid paper with ... More
Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn - Persian manuscript
The first volume of a two volume work which in all covers 170 years. The first volume covers the years from the birth of the last Mongol ruler of Persia Abū Saʻīd (704/1304/5) until the death of Abū S aʻīd,... More
Risālah fī al-tajwīd bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah li-Muḥammad al-Bāqir
Treatise on the art of reciting the Qurʼan. Manuscript. Persian. Binder's title. Author's name on fol. 1a: Muḥammad al-Bāqir ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Wāʻiẓ Asmāʼī. Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collecti... More
Poems of Ḥāfiẓ - Persian manuscript
The poetical works of Ḥāfiẓ. Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Text is incomplete and breaks off at fol. 160b. Name of scribe/scribes not indicated. Probably written in Central Asia. Paper; t... More
Jild-i avval Siyar al-mutaʼakhkhirīn, taṣnīf-i Sayyid Ghulām Ḥusayn Kh...
History of India in the 18th century. Manuscript. Persian. Title from flyleaf. Scribe not indicated. India. Paper; cream-color Indian paper; black ink, some rubrication; text enclosed within border of two thin ... More
Majmuʻah, or, Collection - Persian manuscript
A scholar's collection of bits of text, mostly in Persian with some Arabic, accompanied by extensive comments. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe/owner not identified. Written i... More
Dīvān-i Khvājah - Persian manuscript
Poems of Ḥāfiẓ. Manuscript. Persian. Title from label on spine. Written by Muḥammad Riz̤ā ibn-i ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz. Written in Iran. Paper: white, polished, Termeh laid paper; no visible chain-lines; text in b... More
Nizami Ganjavi - Skander-Namah - Persian manuscript
Legend of Alexander the Great in verse. Manuscript. Persian. Pasted label on cover: Bhajan Lal Mss Dealer & Bookseller: title: Skandar-Nameh ... ; where from obtained: Amritsar; when written: 1217 Hijri. Name o... More
Kitāb-i akhlāq al-muḥsinī
Text on fundamentals of Islamic ethics. Manuscript. Persian. Title and date from colophon. Scribe's name in colophon: Muḥammad Gaws̲. Bookplate of former owner, Thomas Munro, page 2 of cover. Probably written ... More
Hāz̲ā duʻā-yi ṣanamay-i Quraysh az Mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn
Text of the Shīʻah prayer of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib titled Duʻa-yi ṣanam-i Quraysh together with an interlinear Persian translation. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Caption title, folio 1b. "Katabahu Abū al-... More
Risālah dar faqah - Persian manuscript
Treatise on poverty. Manuscript. Persian. Title from container. Copied by Sayyid Rawshan ʻAlī? Written in India. Paper: cream color unpolished paper; black ink with rubrication; severly worm-eaten with some lo... More
Nuskhah-i Divān-i Hilālī
The poems of Badr al-Dīn al-Hilālī with an introduction. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Possibly written in Horasan or Afghanistan. Paper; coarse cream-color laid pap... More
Insha-ʼi ʻajūbīyah - Persian manuscript
Guide to writing both official and private correspondence. Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Pasted label on page 1 of cover: Bhajan Lal Mss Dealer & Bookseller, Gali Tokrian, Katra Safaid, Amritsar." W... More
Gulshan-i tawḥīd - Public domain document scan
Versified criticism and interpretation of the classical Mas̲navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Probably written in Afghanistan. Paper... More
Mas̲navī - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Marginalia dated 1827. Title from final section (daftar 7). Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; (main section) light cream color unpolished laid paper; no visibl... More
Daftar-i avval-i Ṭibb-i akbarī - Public domain document scan
Based on the Arabic treatise Sharḥ al-asbāb by Nafīs ibn ʻIwaḍ (-approximately 1449); covers the symptoms and treatment of diseases specific to particular parts and general diseases. Manuscript. Persian. Ca... More
Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Gulistān - Persian manuscript
Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color, unpolished laid-paper; with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; manuscript app... More
Iʻtiqādnāmah - Persian manuscript
Statement of Shiite creed in Persian. Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Label on page 3 of cover: "Class 895 no. 202, Amherst College Library, 8706, presented by J.L. Merrick; withdrawn 11/21/27." Name of scr... More
Three treatises on Persian letter-writing and composition
Three works on Persian letter-writing and composition. Manuscript. Persian. Title devised by cataloger. Scribes not identified. Written in India. Paper; 1st work is on cream-color Indian paper; remaining 2 work... More
Sharh-i namaz
This work is not a commentary on the namāz, but a selection of Qurʼānic sūrahs and prayers to be read during Ramaḍān. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title from container. Copied by Ṭālib Nizhād. Writte... More
al-Muʻjam fī ās̲ār mulūk al-ʻajam
Treatise on the deeds of the Persian kings. Manuscript. Persian. Title from container; based on comparison with other printings of the same work. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran or India.... More
Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām
Description based on Rosenwald bibliography entry. Eleven lines per leaf. Persian manuscript written in India in large nastaliq, illustrated wtih 120 miniatures, including portraits. Library of Congress. Lessin... More
Shiʻah prayer manual, 19th century
Shīʻah prayer book with brief passages in Arabic followed by a Persian translation and brief commentary. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title from container. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran. Pap... More
Tāj al-Maṣādir - Persian manuscript
Persian dictionary of Arabic particles. Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a and colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, light tan laid paper with no visible chain lin... More