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- Qur'an with an interlinear Persian Translation
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- An anonymous Persian edition of the Muʻallaqāt (the Arabic text with explanation in Persian)
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- Original and selected poetry and prose in Arabic, Persian and Turkish
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- Arabic prayer with a Persian introduction
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- The first of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and…
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- The ninth of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʿran manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and…
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- Basāwan La‘l bin Nansuk’h Rāy Kāyat’h Saksēnah Bilgrāmī , pen named S̲h̲ādān first composed the Amīr'nāmah (Book of the…
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- This incomplete, illustrated Persian translation of the Kitāb Suwar Kawākib al-Thābitah (Book of Forms of the Fixed Stars),…
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- An incomplete copy of the Anvār-i Suhaylī by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī (d. ca. 1504). .
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- Persianate South Asian album features 33 primarily facing paintings.
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- Persianate South Asian album of eighteen portraits, probably late eighteenth century.
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- The second of two albums, with Indian Drawings 18, of disparate South Asian paintings, portraits, and calligraphy specimens.
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- Album of paintings and calligraphy, the latter primarily by Mughal court calligrapher Muḥammad Ḥusayn Kashmīrī .
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- Album of forty folios of paintings and calligraphy, assembled at Lucknow for Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier (d. 1795).
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- A Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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- Persian illustrated copy of Qazwini's Wonders of Creation , an important Arabic cosmography.
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- A Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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- This manuscript of an anonymous Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation…
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- Siḥr-i halāl by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536
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- A Safavid-era illustrated copy of the romance of Khusraw and Shirin , one of the five poems of Khamsah (Quintet) by medieval…
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- ʻIyār-i dānish by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602
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- Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī
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- This illustrated Persian manuscript features two different works synchronously written on the pages: a Shāhnāmah (Book of…
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- Album of 40 calligraphy specimens primarily by Lucknow calligrapher Muḥammad ‘Ali Mīrzā given by Antoine Polier to Sir William…
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- Kullīyāt-i Ahlī-ʼi Shīrāzī by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 6
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- Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī (d. ca. 1131) composed his epic poem Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqah va Sharī‘at al-Ṭarīqah…
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- This composite text includes the Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqah va Sharī‘at al-Ṭarīqah (Garden of Truth and Rules of the Way) along with a…
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- A Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ (ca. 1315–1390) with a separately added introduction.
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- Divān by Saʻīdī, Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Makhdūm, active 16th century
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- 2 works by Saʻdī on the subjects of Persian poetry and Persian literature
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- This unsigned and undated copy of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) opens with a…
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- Illustrated copy of Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī's Anvār-i Suhaylī , or the Lights of Canopus , a collection of animal fables of Indian…
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- Lawāmiʻ al-ishrāq fī makārim al-akhlāq by Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13
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- A nearly complete illustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the…
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- This copy of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) opens with a brief Arabic preface and…
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- Kitāb-i nigāristān
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- A Safavid-era scribe named Muḥammad Amīn bin ‘Abd Allāh completed this manuscript of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which…
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- This early manuscript of Mihr va Mushtarī (Sun and Jupiter), the tale of Mihr, son of Shāhpūr, and his vizier's son Mushtarī by…
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- 3 works by 2 authors on the subject of Persian literature
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- Kulliyāt by Saʻdī
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- Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892…
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- This illustrated copy of Laylā va Majnūn by Hātifī, (d. 1520–21), a nephew of ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (d. 1492) , whom composed the…
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- A nearly complete, illuminated and illustrated Safavid-era copy of the Subḥat al-Abrār (Rosary of the Pious), the third of…
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- Mūshnāmah (Book of the Mouse) or Mūsh va Gurbah (Mouse and Cat), a mock-epic attributed to ‘Ubayd Zākānī (d. ca. 1370). A…
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- Illustrated copy of the Gūy va Chawgān (Ball and Polo Stick) or Ḥālnāmah (Book of Ecstasy), a Sufi mystical text by ʻĀrifī…
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- Dīvān-i Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī
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- A two-volume Ṣerḥ-i Dīvān-ı Ḥāfıẓ , an Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.
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- This manuscript of the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ (ca. 1315–1390) contains variant ghazal lyric poems and quintains ( mukhammasāt ) but no…
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- Illustrated copy of Niẓāmī Ganjavī's Khamsah , a collection of five epic poems.
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- Illustrated copy of Nizami's Khamsa (five poems).
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- This Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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- Dīvān by Riyāz̤ī Samarqandī, Muḥammad, d. 1479 or 80
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- A very rare and richly illustrated copy of the Tuḥfat al-Fuqarā' (Gift of the Impoverished), also called the Majma‘ al-Fuqarā'…
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- Two copies of Qiṣṣah-'i Mūsh va Gurbah (Story of the Mouse and Cat) bound together, both apparently completed in Indian…
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- This illustrated New Persian metrical translation of the Pahlavi Middle Persian text Ardāvirāfnāmah (Book of Ardā Virāf) by…
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- Farhād va Shīrīn by Vaḥshī Bāfqī, d. 1583
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- Persian illustrated copy of the Dīvān-i Shāhī, a collection of poems by the Persian poet Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī.
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- Kitāb-i Lama‘āt by ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289?
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- 3 works by 3 authors on the subject of Persian literature
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- The Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in…
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- The Salīm-Shāhnāmah (Book of Salīm Shāh), chronicles the reign of the Ottoman ruler Selim I (1470–1520; r. 1512–20) . The…
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- Famed calligrapher Khalīl Allāh (fl. ca. 1580–1625) completed this abridged Divān of select poems by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (d.…
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- Illustrated copy of Amir Khusrau's masnavi Duval Rani u Khizr Khan , the tragic love story of Khizr Khan and Duval Rani.
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- This complete copy of the Dīvān of Ḥāfiẓ (ca. 1315–1390) contains most of the ghazal lyric poems and quatrains typically found…
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- An album of paintings and calligraphic specimens.
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- This brief, undated illustrated manuscript, probably completed in 18th-century India, contains two poetic works, one written in…
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- This complete copy of the Taẕkirat al-Shuʻarā (Chronicles of Poets) by Dawlatshāh Samarqandī (d. ca. 1494) contains…
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- Khulāṣat al-ash‘ār (Abridgment of Poems), an anthology of lyric poetry quatrains culled from the works of roughly forty poets…
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- Biographies of Persian poets with selections from their works, copied by Bāb, ʻAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī, 1819-1850
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- Riyāz̤ al-shu‘arā’ by ʻAlī Qulī Khān Vālih, 1712-1756
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- This partial copy of the Riyāz̤ al-Shu‘arā’ (Gardens of Poets) by ʻAlī Qulī Khān Vālih (1712–1756) , contains approximately the…
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- Makhzan al-asrār by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
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- Tārīkh-i Shāhjahān by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh, d. 1674?.
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- Dīvān by Mīr ‘Alī Shīr Navā’ī
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- Ḥikāyat-i Fīrūzshāh
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- Dīvān by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325
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- Farhang-i Surūrī by Surūrī, Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad, 17th century
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- The author of this unillustrated Persian translation of Kalīlah va Dimnah (Fables of Bidpai), Abū al-Maʻālī Naṣr Allāh ibn…
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- An encyclopaedic geographical work incorporating the haft iqlīm هفت اقليم and extracting a number of other works.
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- A complete unillustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the collection…
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- Qirān al-saʻdayn by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
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- This manuscript of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) bears illuminated headers…
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- Rawḍ al-akhyār by Amāsī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, 1459 or 60-1533 or 4
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- The history of Timur, 1336-1405 in verse, a Mas̲navī in imitation of Niẓāmī 's Iskandarnāmah . Contains 7 large miniatures.
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- This illustrated copy of the Dabistān-i Maẕāhib (School of Doctrines) presents an encyclopedia of comparative religion…
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- This late 14th-century Kulliyāt (Collected Works) of Jalayirid-era panegyric poet Salmān Sāvajī (d. 1376) contains not only the…
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- The Tuḥfat al-Muʼminīn (Gift of the Believers), a medical anthology by Muḥammad Muʼmin Ḥusaynī (d. 1698) which he dedicated to…
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- A complete illustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the collection…
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- A general biography of patriarchs, kings and great me beginning with Adam and ending with Shāh ʻĀlam .
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- Jāmi‘ al-Ḥikāyat va Lavāmi‘ al-Ravayāt by ʻAwfī, Muḥammad active 1228
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- The first of two volumes of a Persian translation and commentary on the Qur‘ān entitled Mavāhib-i ʻAlīyah (Sublime Talents) or…
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- Dīvān by Jāmī, 1414-1492
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- 2 works by Saʻdī on the subjects of Persian poetry and Persian literature
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- Qiṣṣah-ʼi Ḥātim Ṭāʼī by Ḥaidarī, Ḥaidar Bak̲h̲sh, -1828
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- Dīvān-i Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī