Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4, creator
Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 186
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Ajaib al-makhluqat. Persian
Description:
Cosmography. The section dealing with minerals, plants, and man only. Incomplete at beginning and end., Ethe, H. India Office,, Foliated in pencil 1-104, 108-112., Modern (18th century) nastaliq, in red and black; with colored drawings of plants., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Translated from Arabic.
Qazwini, Zakariya ibn Muhammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4, creator
Published / Created:
[1806]
Call Number:
Persian MSS +65
Image Count:
12
Alternative Title:
Ajaib al-makhluqat. Persian
Description:
Copied on A.H. 24 Jumayda al-avval [sic] 1221 [A.D. 1806]., Cosmography, translated from the Arabic., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in red and black; unwan in colors on leaf 1 verso; with copious crude miniatures., Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collection of tales., Copied in A.H. 1226 [A.D. 1811] in Benares., Ethe, H. India Office,, Gift of Thomas E. Marston, 1958., Good nastaliq, in red, green, blue, and black. Unwans in gold and colors; with 16 colored miniatures., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collection of tales., Copied on A.H. 28 Jumada al-Sani 1257 [A.D. 1841]., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq, in red and black; unwan in color on leaf 1 verso., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Madani, Yar Muhammad Shaykh Fayz Allah al-Hashimi Taj al-Din Muhammad Sadr, 14th cent, creator
Published / Created:
[1637]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 59
Image Count:
7
Description:
A Hindu tale, retold in prose and verse., Chiefly in Persian, with intermittent prose and verse in Arabic; colophon is in Arabic., Copied on A.H. 2 Ramazan 1[0]46 [A.D. 1637] by Yar Muhammad Shaykh Fayz Allah al-Hashimi al-Madani. A note on leaf 1 recto is dated A.H. 1119 [A.D. 1707 or 1708], hence the missing figure in the date of the colophon would seem to be a zero., Good naskhi, in red and black. Unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; with five colored miniatures., Islamic binding, in brown., Paginated 1-341 (291-299 omitted; first and last page not numbered)., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Rieu, C. Persian manuscripts,, and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collected poems. Incomplete at the beginning., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in red and black;unwans in gold and colors., Islamic binding, in black., Purchased from Oskar Rescher on the Henry A. Homes Fund, 1964., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, The date A.H. 1232 [A.D. 1816 or 1817] added in a much later hand. Presumably copied before A.D. 1500., and The title of the lower page edges calls this volume Kulliyat-i Jami; presumably the manuscript at one time comprised his other works.
Hawafi, Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Izz al-Din Jami, 1414-1492, creator
Published / Created:
[1458]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 30
Image Count:
2
Description:
Collected poems, selected from the first Divan., Copied in A.H. Muharram 863 [A.D. 1458] by Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Izz al-Din al-Hawafi., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Islamic binding, gilt, with flap., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Transferred from the Historical Medical Library at Yale.
Collected poems, selected from the first Divan., Copied on A.H. 8 Safar 901 [A.H. 1495] by Pir Husayn al-Katib., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq; unwan in gold and blue at the beginning of the text., Lacks prefatory matter., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collected poems., Copied in A.H. 903 [A.D. 1497 or 8]., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Lacquer binding., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and With four colored miniatures.
Awhadi Maraghai, Rukn al-Din, d. 1337 or 8, creator
Published / Created:
[16--?]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 211
Image Count:
4
Description:
Bankipore. Catalogue,, Collected poems. End missing; lacuna between leaves 1 and 2., Fair modern (17th century) nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; with 8 colored miniatures., Purchased in 1922., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art