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

Contents:: A Safavid-era illustrated copy of the romance of Khusraw and Shirin , one of the five poems of Khamsah (Quintet) by medieval…

2. Persian MS 27 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Timurid court poet and renowned Sufi ‘Abd al-Raḥman Jāmī (1414–1492) originally composed the Bahāristān (Spring Garden) in 892…

3. Persian MS 37 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This Persian translation of the ʻAjā’ib al-Makhlūqāt va Gharāʼib al-Mawjūdāt (Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence),…

4. Persian MS 39 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A very rare and richly illustrated copy of the Tuḥfat al-Fuqarā' (Gift of the Impoverished), also called the Majma‘ al-Fuqarā'…

5. Persian MS 47 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The Salīm-Shāhnāmah (Book of Salīm Shāh), chronicles the reign of the Ottoman ruler Selim I (1470–1520; r. 1512–20) . The…

6. Persian MS 53 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This brief, undated illustrated manuscript, probably completed in 18th-century India, contains two poetic works, one written in…

7. Persian MS 58 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This partial copy of the Riyāz̤ al-Shu‘arā’ (Gardens of Poets) by ʻAlī Qulī Khān Vālih (1712–1756) , contains approximately the…

8. Persian MS 93 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This anonymous New Persian prose translation of a Pahlavi Middle Persian text entitled Ardā Vīrāf nāmag (The Story of Viraf),…

9. Persian MS 133 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Six Persian poems copied by Bahman, son of Bahman, son of Isfandiyar (d. 1788) for Sir William Jones (1746–1794).

10. Persian MS 147 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An unfinished volume of the Nafāʾis al-Funūn fī ʿArāʾis al-ʿUyūn (Troves of the Arts in the Eyes of the Brides) by the…

11. Persian MS 152 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The third of four volumes of the Siyar al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn (Review of Modern Times), with Persian MS 150 , an unrelated volume…

12. Persian MS 188 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This collection of passages copied from various letters and documents in Ottoman Turkish by an anonymous scribe possibly dates…

13. Persian MS 203 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This nineteenth-century work written in ornate Persian prose identifies itself by a misleading title of Qiṣṣah-ʼi Chahār…

14. Persian MS 206 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A complete copy of the Miz̤mār-i Dānish (Hippodrome of Wisdom), here alternatively entitled Farasnāmah (Treatise on Horses),…

15. Persian MS 211 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: An incomplete, paraphrased Persian translation of the Kitāb al-Īmān (Book of Faith), excerpted from Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (or al-Jāmiʿ…

16. Persian MS 285 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This very rare copy of the Masnavī-yi Miṣbāḥ (Couplets of the Light) also known as the Miṣbāḥ al-Rashīdī (Lamp of Rashīdī)…

17. Persian MS 287 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Ṣad dar (One hundred Doors) by Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh, in New Persian verse. Originally completed by the author in 1494 as a…

18. Persian MS 300 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Zartusht Bahrām Pazhdū (fl. 1278) , the author of metrical translations of the Ardāvīrāfnāmah (Book of Ardāvīrāf, see Rylands…

19. Persian MS 308 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This extremely rare, nearly complete volume entitled Lubāb al-Albāb (Kernels of the Intellects) by Sadīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ʻAwfī…

20. Persian MS 309 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: This undated, complete copy of the Taẕkirat al-Shuʻarā (Chronicles of Poets) by Dawlatshāh Samarqandī (d. ca. 1494) contains…

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