Century: 16th Century / Decoration: Yes / Institution: The University of Manchester

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

Contents:: Qaṣīdat al-burdah by al-Būṣīrī

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

Contents:: This illustrated manuscript of the Anvār-i Suhaylī (Lights of Canopus), a prose rescension of animal fables of Indian origin…

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

Contents:: A nearly complete illustrated copy of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which comprises the second of seven books in the…

4. Persian MS 23 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A Safavid-era scribe named Muḥammad Amīn bin ‘Abd Allāh completed this manuscript of the romance of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā , which…

5. Persian MS 28 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This illustrated copy of Laylā va Majnūn by Hātifī, (d. 1520–21), a nephew of ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (d. 1492) , whom composed the…

6. Persian MS 29 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A nearly complete, illuminated and illustrated Safavid-era copy of the Subḥat al-Abrār (Rosary of the Pious), the third of…

7. Persian MS 43 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Persian illustrated copy of the Dīvān-i Shāhī, a collection of poems by the Persian poet Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī.

8. Persian MS 48 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Famed calligrapher Khalīl Allāh (fl. ca. 1580–1625) completed this abridged Divān of select poems by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (d.…

9. Persian MS 49 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Illustrated copy of Amir Khusrau's masnavi Duval Rani u Khizr Khan , the tragic love story of Khizr Khan and Duval Rani.

10. Persian MS 55 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Khulāṣat al-ash‘ār (Abridgment of Poems), an anthology of lyric poetry quatrains culled from the works of roughly forty poets…

11. Persian MS 94 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This composite manuscript contains two texts: a commentary on forty prophetic traditions and a hagiography of the calligrapher…

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

Contents:: This Dīvān compiles together poems ascribed to Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (ca. 1253–1325), widely regarded as India's most famous…

13. Persian MS 207 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An unillustrated copy of Mihr va-Mushtarī (the Sun and Jupiter), by Muḥammad 'Aṣṣār Tabrīzī (d. ca. 1383). Very neatly written…

14. Persian MS 249 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An abridged selection of poems from the Dīvān by the influential Timurid-era poet Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (d. 1453). Probably…

15. Persian MS 520 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This complete copy of the Tuḥfat al-Aḥrār (Gift of the Noble) composed by Timurid-era poet ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 1492)…

16. Persian MS 809 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The first of three volumes of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar (Beloved of Biographies), uniformly bound with Persian MS 810 and 811 .…

17. Persian MS 829 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Historian Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī (d. 1454) completed his Ẓafarnāmah (Book of Victory) in 828 AH (1424–1425 CE) for the…

18. Persian MS 844 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This volume entitled Sukhanān-i Anṣarī (Speeches of Anṣārī) contains mainly lines of poetry culled from various works by ʻAbd…

19. Persian MS 851 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An illuminated, complete, Safavid-era copy of the Subḥat al-Abrār (Rosary of the Pious), the third of seven books in the…

20. Persian MS 853 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This nearly complete Dīvān of of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (ca. 1253–1325) regrettably lacks the initial illuminated folio, but…

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