Type: manuscript / Institution: The University of Manchester / Collection: Persian Manuscripts

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1. Gaster MS Misc 1501 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Basāwan La‘l bin Nansuk’h Rāy Kāyat’h Saksēnah Bilgrāmī , pen named S̲h̲ādān first composed the Amīr'nāmah (Book of the…

2. Gaster MS Misc 1519 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This incomplete, illustrated Persian translation of the Kitāb Suwar Kawākib al-Thābitah (Book of Forms of the Fixed Stars),…

3. Gaster MS Misc 1758 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An incomplete copy of the Anvār-i Suhaylī by Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī (d. ca. 1504). .

4. Indian Drawings 4 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Persianate South Asian album features 33 primarily facing paintings.

5. Indian Drawings 6 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Persianate South Asian album of eighteen portraits, probably late eighteenth century.

6. Indian Drawings 11 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Album of fifty folios of paintings and calligraphy.

7. Indian Drawings 12 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Album of forty folios of paintings and calligraphy, assembled at Lucknow for Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier (d. 1795).

8. Indian Drawings 21 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The second of two albums, with Indian Drawings 18, of disparate South Asian paintings, portraits, and calligraphy specimens.

9. Persian MS 1 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…

10. Persian MS 2 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Persian illustrated copy of Qazwini's Wonders of Creation , an important Arabic cosmography.

11. Persian MS 3 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…

12. Persian MS 4 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This manuscript of an anonymous Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation…

13. Persian MS 5 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Siḥr-i halāl by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 1536

14. Persian MS 6 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Safavid-era illustrated copy of the romance of Khusraw and Shirin , one of the five poems of Khamsah (Quintet) by medieval…

15. Persian MS 7 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: ʻIyār-i dānish by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602

16. Persian MS 8 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī

17. Persian MS 9 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This illustrated Persian manuscript features two different works synchronously written on the pages: a Shāhnāmah (Book of…

18. Persian MS 10 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Album of 40 calligraphy specimens primarily by Lucknow calligrapher Muḥammad ‘Ali Mīrzā given by Antoine Polier to Sir William…

19. Persian MS 11 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Kullīyāt-i Ahlī-ʼi Shīrāzī by Ahlī Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 1454-1535 or 6

20. Persian MS 12 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: 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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