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Summary of Contents: Niṣāb ʾAbū Naṣr Farāhī, Miftaḥ-i gulistān va ghayrah نصاب ابو نصر فراهیِ مفتاح گلستان و غيره
1. f. 2b
Author: anonymous
Title: A talisman ascribed to ʻAlī

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
2. f. 3a
Author: anonymous
Title: Formulae used by the contracting parties in a temporary marriage or ṣīghah صيغه

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
3. f. 3b
Author: anonymous
Title: A recipe for dyeing the beard

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
4. ff. 4a-5a
Author: anonymous
Title: Notes on the prescribed abolutions, etc.

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
5. ff. 6b-69b

with running commentary

Author: Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn فراهى، ابو نصر
Title: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān
Title: نصاب الصبيان

Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

no. 1184
no. CLII
6. f. 70a-71a
Author: anonymous
Title: A short chronological account of the Creation and the Prophets

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
7. ff. 71a-72a

A table showing the number of times which each letter of the alphabet occurs in the Qurʼān

Author: anonymous
Title: Ḥurūfāt-i Qurʼan-i Majīd
Title: حروفات قرأن مجيد

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
8. ff. 73b-78a
Author: Kashānī, Ḥasan Mawlānā Ḥasan Kashī Āmulī, Ḥasan كاشي آملي آملي كاشانی حسن احسن المتكلمين مولانا
Title: Haft band
Title: Tārīkh band
Title: هفت بند
Title: تاريخ بند

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII
no. 1075
9. ff. 78b-83a
Author: Uways Ibn ʻAlā Ādam اوسين بن اعلا عابد آدم خواجه
Title: Miftaḥ-i Gulistān
Title: مفتاح گلستان

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 1075
no. CLII
A key to the Gulistān گلستان by Saʻdī سعدى
10. ff. 86b-87a
Author: attributed to Imām Jaʻfar-i Ṣadiq امام جعفر صادق
Title: A table for finding on what day of the week the first day of a Hijri month in a year falls.

Language(s): Persian

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no. CLII
11. ff. 87b-95b
Author: attributed to Imām Riz̤ā امام رضا
Title: A treatise on auguries to be drawn from birds, etc.

Language(s): Persian

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no. CLII
12. ff. 100b-101a
Author: anonymous
Title: Prescriptions for compounding certain electuaries معجون .

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLII

Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated by G. Lewis (d. 1729) in 1727.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900 E. G. Browne: A catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1896 abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

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Bibliography

    This copy corresponds with no. 1642 of the Bodleian.

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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