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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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- A Safavid-era illustrated copy of the romance of Khusraw and Shirin , one of the five poems of Nizami's Khamsah (Quintet).…
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- Album of forty calligraphy specimens given by Colonel Antoine-Louis-Henri Polier (d. 1795) to Sir William Jones (d. 1794).
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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 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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- 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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- Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892…
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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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- This Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- The author of this unillustrated Persian translation of Kalīlah va Dimnah (Fables of Bidpai), Abū al-Maʻālī Naṣr Allāh ibn…
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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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- 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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- Two titles on unrelated subjects, likely completed in North India on 29 Ramaz̤ān 1201 AH (29 July 1787 CE) .
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- This anonymous New Persian prose translation of a Pahlavi Middle Persian text entitled Ardā Vīrāf nāmag (The Story of Viraf),…
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- This composite manuscript contains two different works of Persian poetry.
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- Six Persian poems copied by Bahman, son of Bahman, son of Isfandiyar (d. 1788) for Sir William Jones (1746–1794).
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- 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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- An unfinished volume of the Nafāʾis al-Funūn fī ʿArāʾis al-ʿUyūn (Troves of the Arts in the Eyes of the Brides) by the…
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- This manuscript contains selections from the first volume of the Siyar al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn (Review of Modern Times), pertaining…
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- The second of four volumes of the Siyar al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn (Review of Modern Times), with Persian MS 150 , an unrelated volume…
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- The third of four volumes of the Siyar al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn (Review of Modern Times), with Persian MS 150 , an unrelated volume…
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- The fourth of four volumes of the Siyar al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn (Review of Modern Times), with Persian MS 150 , an unrelated volume…
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- The Makhzan-i Afghānī (Afghan Treasury), composed by the Mughal court chronicler Khvājah Niʻmat Allāh b. Khvājah Ḥabīb Allāh…
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- This collection of passages copied from various letters and documents in Ottoman Turkish by an anonymous scribe possibly dates…
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- This nearly complete copy Dābistān-i Maẕāhib (School of Doctrines) presents an encyclopedia of comparative religion recounting…
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- This nineteenth-century work written in ornate Persian prose identifies itself by a misleading title of Qiṣṣah-ʼi Chahār…
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- A complete copy of the Miz̤mār-i Dānish (Hippodrome of Wisdom), here alternatively entitled Farasnāmah (Treatise on Horses),…
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- An incomplete, paraphrased Persian translation of the Kitāb al-Īmān (Book of Faith), excerpted from Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (or al-Jāmiʿ…
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- The author of this valuable holograph copy of this Dīvān , Mīrzā Zayn al-Dīn Khān (fl. mid-17th century), pen-named 'ʿIshq',…
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- This nearly complete, unsigned, and undated copy of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī…
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- An abridged selection of poems from the Dīvān by the influential Timurid-era poet Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (d. 1453). Probably…
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- An incomplete copy of the first book of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) . Part of…
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- A complete copy of Book Two of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) . Part of a…
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- A complete copy of Book Three of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) . Part of a…
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- A complete copy of Book Four of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) . Part of a…
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- An undated, complete copy of Book Five of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) , part…
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- A complete copy of Book Six of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) , part of a…
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- A clearly-written, albeit unembellished copy of the Laylā va Majnūn by Hātifī, (d. 1520–21), a nephew of ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī…
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- This very rare copy of the Masnavī-yi Miṣbāḥ (Couplets of the Light) also known as the Miṣbāḥ al-Rashīdī (Lamp of Rashīdī)…