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
Collected poems., Ethe, H. India Office,, Islamic plain lacquer binding., Modern (17th century) nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Perhaps an unfinished copy; incipit does not agree with any of the India Office exemplars., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and With miniatures.
Collected poems., Copied on A.H. 17 Zu-Qadah [sic] 1089 [A.D. 1678]; name of scribe has been erased., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 5 verso., Purchased on the Farnam Fund, 1910., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collected poems; part 2, containing qasidahs and ghazals., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good modern (18th century) naskhi; unwans in gold and colors., Islamic binding, in red., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, The date on the final leaf, A.H. 1093, is that of the collection of the Divan., and The India Office copy lacks the beginning of the qasidahs; for the correct incipit, see Bankipore, Catalogue, III, p. 167.
Collected poems., Ethe, H. India Office,, Incomplete, and badly misbound., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Modern (18th century) Indian naskhi, in red and black, with eighteen colored miniature., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collected poems., Considerable marginalia., Ethe, H. India Office,, Ex libris R.M. Binning. Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., In manuscript on leaf 1 verso: R.M. Binning E[ast]. I[ndia]. C[ompany]. C[ivil]. S[ervice]. Madras., Modern (18th century) nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Robert Blair Munro Binning is the author of a grammar of colloquial Arabic (British Museum Catalogue)., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Collected poems., Ethe, H. India Office,, Islamic binding, in black., Modern (19th century) nastaliq; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso and 2 recto., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and With numerous miniatures.
Sadi., creator Tabrizi, Pir Muhammad ibn Shaykh Tahir
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Persian MSS 35
Image Count:
3
Description:
Copied on A.H. Shaban 931 [A.D. 1525] by Pir Muhammad ibn Shaykh Tahir Tabrizi., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in black, red, blue, and gold; elaborate unwans on leaf 1 verso and folio 2 recto; with miniatures., Lacquer binding., Poem., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and Text is in Persian; colophon is in Arabic.
Ethe, H. India Office,, Ex libris R.M. Binning. Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Extensive marginal notes., Fairly modern (17th century) nastaliq, in gold, red, and black; unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., In manuscript on leaf 1 verso: R.M. Binning E[ast]. I[ndia]. C[ompany]. C[ivil]. S[ervice]. Madras., Poems framed in a dialogue., Robert Blair Munro Binning is the author of a colloquial Arabic grammar, 1849 (British Museum catalog)., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Copied in A.H. Safar 1011 [A.D. 1602] by Ahmad Ali Ijaz Ruqum, but only the first two and the last three leaves belong to the original manuscript, the rest (including the miniatures) having been supplied by a much later (18th century) hand., Ethe, H. India Office,, Good nastaliq, in red and black; unwan in gold and colors on folio 1 verso; with colored miniatures., Poems framed in a dialogue., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Ethe, H. India Office,, Islamic binding, in black., Masnavi poem; part of the Khamsah quintet. Incomplete at end., Modern (19th century) nastaliq; with crude miniatures in colors., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Copied in A.H. 976-977 [A.D. 1568 or 9-1569 or 70]., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq, in red and black; unwans in gold and colors., Five epic poems (Makhzan al-asrar, Khusraw va Shirin, Haft Paykar, Layli va Majnun, Iskandarnamah); the first is missing in this copy., Islamic binding, in green., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Several lacunae in the text (leaves wth miniatures torn out).
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Haft paykar Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Iskandarnāmah Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Khusraw va Shīrīn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Laylī va Majnūn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Makhzan al-asrār
Call Number:
Persian MSS +93
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
Five epic poems (Makhzan al-asrār, Khusraw va Shīrīn, Laylī va Majnūn, Haft paykar, Iskandarnāmah).
Description:
Copied in A.H. [1]193 [A.D. 1779 or 1780]., Ex libris Peerji Abdul Razaq of Delhi. Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Good nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwāns in gold and colors; numerous fine miniatures in colors., and Islamic lacquer binding.
Subject (Name):
Peerji Abdul Razaq--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Persian language and literature--Poetry and Persian poetry
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Haft paykar Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Iskandarnāmah Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Khusraw va Shīrīn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Layli va Majnūn Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3. Makhzan al-asrār
Published / Created:
[18--?].
Call Number:
Persian MSS +86
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Five epic poems (Khusraw va Shīrīn, Makhzan al-asrār, Laylī va Majnūn, Haft paykar, Iskandarnāmah).
Description:
Ethé, H. India Office, 972., Good modern (19th century) nastaʻlīq, in red and black; ʻunwāns in colors; with numerous miniatures in colors., Islamic binding, in red, with flap., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Topic):
Persian language and literature--Poetry and Persian poetry
Copied in Hindi era 1907-1908 [A.D. 1850-1851]., Ethe, H. India Office,, Fair nastaliq, in red and black. Blank space (left for miniatures) filled out with crude floral desgins in colors. Unwans in gold and colors. Some leaves (with miniatures) torn out., Five epic poems (Makhzan al-asrar, Khusraw va Shirin, Layli va Majnun, Haft paykar, Iskandarnamah)., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art
Ethe, H. India Office,, Fairly old (16th century) nastaliq, in red and black;unwan in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso; with 5 colored miniatures., Islamic binding, in brown., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., Teaching resource: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, and The wisdom book of Alexander the Great, in verse. Part of the Haft Awrang collection.
