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- A complete copy of the Mirʼāt-i Sikandarī (Alexander's Mirror) a history of the Muẓaffarid dynasty that ruled Gujarat until…
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- This sole surviving copy of the initial portion of the Vasā'il al-Rasā'il va Dalā'il al-Faz̤a'il (Pretenses of Letters and…
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- This first book of the Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) opens with a brief Arabic…
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- This anonymous, incomplete Persian translation of the Kitāb al-Luhūf ‘alà Qatlà al-Ṭufūf , (Sighs upon the Murder of the…
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- The volume contains 199 folios, with 3 preliminary leaves and 4 blank back leaves, all of later paper, as is folio 1 which is…
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- One probably incomplete copy of the دیوان مشرب Dēwān-i Mašrab , a.k.a. بابا رحیم نمنگانی Bābā Raḥīm Namangānī , the late…
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- رباعیات سرمدی ديوان مظهر رباعیات جامی A composite volume, containing (1) the Persian Diwan of a poet called Mazhar; (2) a…
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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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- 1 copy of Dārābnāmah by Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan
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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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- An early Mughal illustrated Shāhnāmah in two volumes.
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- A collection of three related works on logic.
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- A treatise on the game of chess by the Sufi writer and poet Ibn Abī Ḥajalah (d. 1375) entitled Unmūdhaj al-qitāl fī naql…
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- Six works of poetry in Chaghatay by Alisher Navoiĭ, 1441-1501 , including one copy of Lisānu l-ṭayr and the five works of his…
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- Several exceprts from an abridged Chaghatay translation of Samarqandī ʿAbd al-Shahīd ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd 's (Persian) Taẕkirah-'i…
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- Collection of poetical Divans including poems by Muʻizzī, As̲īr al-Dīn Ākhsīkatī, Adīb Sābir, Qamar, Shams Ṭabasī and…
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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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- Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892…
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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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- A complete unillustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the collection…