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1. Arabic MS 60 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Manuscript copy of the fable collection entitled Kalīlah wa-Dimnah by Abū al-Maʿālī Abd Allāh Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ dated 1240 AH…

2. Arabic MS 100 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A work on various vices affecting human life, by an unknown author. It was copied in the 18th century and according to Mingana,…

3. Arabic MS 109 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A work containing popular tales relating to the times of the ʿAbbasid caliphs and the influential Persian Barmakid family. It…

4. Arabic MS 232 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Commentary by Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʿīd Ǧīwan the a 13th-century Islamic legal work Manār al-Anwār by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad…

5. Arabic MS 552 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

6. Arabic MS 615 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

7. Arabic MS 676 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Composite manuscript containing a treatise on music and an astrological work.

8. Arabic MS 738 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

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

Contents:: 1 copy of Nūrnāmah

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

Contents:: 1 copy of Yūsuf Zulaykhā by Jāmī, 1414-1492

11. Persian MS 21 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This copy of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) opens with a brief Arabic preface and…

12. Persian MS 27 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892…

13. Persian MS 54 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This complete copy of the Taẕkirat al-Shuʻarā (Chronicles of Poets) by Dawlatshāh Samarqandī (d. ca. 1494) contains…

14. Persian MS 58 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This partial copy of the Riyāz̤ al-Shu‘arā’ (Gardens of Poets) by ʻAlī Qulī Khān Vālih (1712–1756) , contains approximately the…

15. Persian MS 68 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The author of this unillustrated Persian translation of Kalīlah va Dimnah (Fables of Bidpai), Abū al-Maʻālī Naṣr Allāh ibn…

16. Persian MS 90 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Bahāristān (Spring Garden) of Jāmī with letters by the Mughal Emperor ʻĀlamgīr, completed 1201 AH (1787 CE).

17. Persian MS 93 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This anonymous New Persian prose translation of a Pahlavi Middle Persian text entitled Ardā Vīrāf nāmag (The Story of Viraf),…

18. Persian MS 101 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This composite manuscript contains two different works of Persian poetry.

19. Persian MS 133 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Six Persian poems copied by Bahman, son of Bahman, son of Isfandiyar (d. 1788) for Sir William Jones (1746–1794).

20. Persian MS 141 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Latin-Persian miscellany of eight works, all probably copied by—and all but one likely authored by—Autrian orientalist and…

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