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1. 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…

2. 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…

3. Persian MS 240 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Author Şem‘ī Şemullah (d. ca. 1602) composed this Ottoman Turkish prose interpretive commentary on the Persian Būstān (Fragrant…

4. 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…

5. Persian MS 306 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A complete copy of the Bahāristān (Spring Garden), originally composed by Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman…

6. Persian MS 317 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The Tuḥfah-ʼi Sāmī (Gift of Sām), composed by Prince Sām Mīrzā (1517–1567) .

7. Persian MS 421 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This Persian translation Lubāb al-Akhbār (Kernels of Reports), originally compiled in Arabic by Aḥmad ibn ‘Abdullāh , was…

8. Persian MS 855 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A nearly-complete copy of the Dīvān by Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (ca. 1253–1338) , a significant medieval Sufi poet of India. An…

9. Persian MS 893 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This composite manuscript contains four works by Jāmī (1414-1492), and includes one of the earliest translations into Ottoman…

10. Persian MS 932 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The composition of this epic poem, Shāhnāmah (Book of Kings), by Abū al-Qāsim Manṣūr Firdawsī (fl. ca. 940–1020) , dates to the…

11. Persian MS 977–978 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An early Mughal illustrated Shāhnāmah in two volumes.