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- A beautiful copy of the famous Dīwān of al-Mutanabbī.
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- Fragment of the Qurʾān on thick parchment and in large Kufi characters. Probably compiled from leaves from various old codices.
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- Volume containing Juzʿ 4 of the Qurʾān (Sūrah 3:92-4:23). It is written in large golden letters, in a Maghribi or African hand,…
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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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- A large and square volume of the Qurʾan, written in large Naskhi characters. With illuminated headings and ornamental…
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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 Khamsah (Quintet) by medieval…
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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…