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Summary of Contents: 23 works by 13 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry, Epic poetry, Qasidas, Muḥammad, Imams, Islamic astronomy, Euclid, Geometry, Alchemy, Islamic law, Shīʻah, Calendars, Astrolabes, Astrology Early works to 1800, Persian poetry 747-1500, Sufi poetry, Iran, Mongols History Sources, Curiosities and wonders, Islamic astrology, Masnavis, Medicine, Horses, and Sunnites
1. ff. 3-294r
Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 نظامى گنجوى
Title: The Khamsah, or five poems, of Niẓāmī
Title: خمسۀ نظامى
Language(s): Persian
f. 3
Title: Makhzan al-asrār ( مخزن الاسرار )
f. 28
Title: Khusraw va Shīrīn ( خسرو وشيرين )
f. 90
Title: Laylá va Majnūn ( ليلى ومجنون )
f. 138
Title: Haft paykar ( هفت پيكر )
f. 190
Title: Iskandarnāmah ( اسكندر نامه )

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 868.
2. ff. 294v-301
Author: Firdawsī فردوسي
Title: Three episodes from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 868.
3. ff. 301v-309
Author: Various authors
Title: Qasīdahs in praise of Muḥammad and the Imāms
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, pages 868-9.
4. ff. 309v-313
Author: Qivām al-Din Z̲u'l-Faqār قوام الدین ذو الفقار
Title: Mifātīḥ al-kalām fī midāīḥ al-karām
Title: مفاتیح الکلام فی مدایح الکرام

A qasīdah ingeniously contrived so as to offer examples of all the Persian metres

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 869.
5. ff. 314-340
Author: Various authors
Title: Select Ghazals

About 200 in number

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 869.
6. ff. 340v-342
Author: Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, d. ca. 1436 Jamshīd b. Masʻūd b. Maḥmūd Ghiyās̲ جمشید بن مسعود بن محمود غیاث كاشي، جمشيد بن مسعود
Title: Mukhtaṣir dar ʻilm-i hay’āt
Title: مختصر در علم هیأت

A manual of astronomy

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 869.
7. ff. 343-344
Author: Kāshī, Jamshīd ibn Masʻūd, d. ca. 1436 Jamshīd b. Masʻūd b. Maḥmūd Ghiyās̲ جمشید بن مسعود بن محمود غیاث كاشی، جمشيد بن مسعود
Title: Mukhtaṣir dar ʻilm-i Iqlīdis
Title: مختصر در علم اقلیدس

Elements of geometry, consisting of a few theorems from the first book of Euclid, with diagrams

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 869.
8. ff. 344-345
Author: Unknown
Title: Risālah kibrīt aḥmar
Title: رساله کبریت احمر

An alchemical treatise, written for Sulṭan Jalāl al-Dīn Iskandar

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
9. ff. 345v-348
Author: Unknown
Title: Fiqh dar maz̲hab shīʻah
Title: فقه در مذهب شیعه

A manual of Shīʻah law, according to Imām ʻAlī b. Mūsā al-Riz̤ā

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
10. ff. 348-364
Author: Abū Ḥanīfah, d. 767 or 8 أبو جنيفة
Title: Fiqh Abū Ḥanīfah
Title: فقه ابو حنیفه

A treatise on the law of religious observances

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
11. ff. 365-372
Author: Unknown
Title: Maʻrifat taqvīm va asṭarlāb
Title: معرفت تقویم و اسطرلاب

A treatise on the computation of the calendar and the use of the astrolabe, with tables of the conjunctions of the planets

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
12. ff. 372v-542
Author: Unknown
Title: Rawz̤at al-munajjimīn
Title: روضة المنجمين

An extensive treatise on astrology, in fifteen Maqālahs

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
13. ff. 3-112 (margins)
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 عطار، فريد الدين
Title: Ilāhī'nāmah
Title: الاهی نامه
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
14. ff. 111-142 (margins)
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 عطار، فريد الدين
Title: Manṭiq al-ṭayr
Title: منطق الطير
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 870.
15. ff. 142v-287 (margins)
Author: Various authors
Title: An anthology

containing select pieces of upwards of three hundred poets, from the Hijri-qamari fifth to the ninth century, classed according to their subjects or metrical forms

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, pages 870-1.
16. ff. 294-302 (margins)
Author: Unknown
Title: An abridgment of the Niẓām al-tavārīkh

The original work was brought down to the reign of Abū Saʻīd, Ilkhān of the Mongols, fl. 1316-1335, son of Uljāytū Khudābandah, Ilkhan of Iran, ca. 1280-1316 and written by Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, d. 1286?

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
17. ff. 302v-332 (margins)
Author: Anonymous
Title: Tuḥfat al-gharāʼib
Title: تحفة الغرائب

An anonymous compilation, in twenty-eight Bābs, treating of the properties and hidden virtues of natural substances, of various magical and cabalistic operations, and of ingenious devices and recipes for purposes of utility or amusement

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
18. ff. 332v-338 (margins)
Author: Anonymous
Title: Madkhal manẓūm
Title: مدخل منظوم

A manual of astrology in mas̲navī rhyme

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
19. ff. 345-396 (margins)
Author: Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, 1042 or 3-1136 or 7 جرجانی، اسماعيل بن حسن
Title: Khafī ʻAlā’ī
Title: خفی علائی

A manual of medicine

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
20. ff. 396v-398 (margins)
Author: Anonymous
Title: A treatise on the diseases of the horse

Written in nine chapters (aṣl)

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
21. ff. 398r-403 (margins)
Author: Ghiyās̲ Kirmānī غياث کرمانی
Title: A treatise on alchemy

Compiled by order of Sulṭan Jalāl al-Dīn Iskandar

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
22. ff. 420-504 (margins)
Author: Awḥadī, Rukn al-Dīn اوحدی، ركن الدين
Title: Jām-i jam
Title: جام جم
Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.
23. ff. 504v-539 (margins)
Author: Shabistarī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, d. ca. 1320 شبسترى ، محمود بن عبد الكريم
Title: Saʻādatnāmah
Title: سعادت نامه

A theological treatise in Mas̲navī rhyme, containing an exposition of the Sunni creed, with Sufi comments and a refutation of heretical doctrines

Language(s): Persian

References

For a more detailed description see Rieu 1876-83, page 871.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 546 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 18.4 × 12.7 in.

Hand(s)

Minute naskh

Muḥammad al-Ḥalvāʼī al-Jalālī al-Iskandarī , محمد هلوائی ال جلالی الاسکندری

Minute nastaʿlīq

Nāṣir al-Kātib, ناصر الکاتب

Decoration

Ornamented ʿunwāns

Gilt headings

Illuminated borders

21 whole page miniatures

Some coloured drawings

History

Origin: From Jumāda I., 813 to Jumāda II., 814 AH

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Ch. Rieu: Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum. 3 vols, London, 1879-83

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