Ll. 6. 18 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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Summary of Contents: 13 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Koran, Arabic language, Inheritance and succession, Aphorisms and apothegms, Islamic calligraphy, Ink, Courts and courtiers, Iran, Epic poetry, God, Persian poetry, Ghazals, and Love poetry
1. ff. 3b-11b
Author: anonymous
Title: Risalah-ʼi tafsīr-i lā ikrāh fī al-dīn va-risālah-ʼi dīgar malakah Muḥammad ibn Sinān
Title: رسالۀ تفسير لا اكراه في الدين وزسالۀ ديگر ملكه محمد بن سنان
Title: Commentary on the Qurʼānic verse 'there is no compulsion in religion' and another tract with comments on the Hidāyah

Language(s): Arabic, Persian

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no. 256 no. CCCXXVIII
2. ff. 14b-29a
Author: Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 9-1534 كمال پاشازاده
Title: Risālat saqaṭāt al-ʻawāmm
Title: رسالة سقطات العوام

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 518 no. CCCXXVIII
3. ff. 31b-34a
Author: Qāḍī Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib القاضي ابو حامد محمد بن علي بن ابي طالب
Title: Risālat matn al-farāʼiḍ li-Shihāb al-Dīn
Title: رسالة متن الفرائض لشهاب الدين
Title: Treatise on inheritance

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 472 no. CCCXXVIII
4. ff. 34b-46
Author: anonymous
Title: Commentary on the precedent Matn al-farāʼiḍ متن الفرائض

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. CCCXXVIII
5. f. 46b
Author: anonymous
Title: Aphorisms on the virtues and varieties of knowledge

Language(s): Arabic

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no. CCCXXVIII
6. ff. 43b-63b
Author: anonymous
Title: Risālah-ʼi khuṭūṭ
Title: رسالۀ خطوط
Title: Treatise on caligraphy

Language(s): Turkish

References

no. 459 no. CCCXXVIII
7. ff. 43b-63b
Author: anonymous
Title: Receipts for making ink and fees charged by certain celebrated caligraphers

Language(s): Turkish, Arabic

References

no. CCCXXVIII
The receipts are copied from works of the famous calligraphers Ibn Muqlah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 886-939 or 40 ابن مقلة ; and Ibn al-Bawwāb, ʻAlī ibn Hilāl, d. 1022 ابن البواب، علي بن هلال
8. ff. 66b-73a
Author: anonymous
Title: Kitāb-i rāḥat al-insān
Title: كتاب راحت الانسان

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 445 no. CCCXXVIII
9. ff. 73a-75b
Author: anonymous
Title: Poem containing precepts of the old Persian kings

Language(s): Persian

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no. CCCXXVIII
10. ff. 78b-88a
Author: Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, 1340-1413 الجرجاني، علي بن محمد السيد الشريف
Title: Risalah-ʼi fārisī fī maʻrifat wujūd al-Bārī li-al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī
Title: رسالۀ فارسی فی وجود الباری للسيد الشريف الجرجانی

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 474 no. CCCXXVIII
11. ff. 88a-90a
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامی
Title: Selection of poems

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CCCXXVIII
12. ff. 92b-110a
Author: Fakhr ibn Muḥammad Amīr فخر بن محمد امير
Title: Risālah-ʼi fārisī fī al-ghazalīyāt
Title: رسالۀ فارسی فی الغزليات

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 467 no. CCCXXVIII
13. ff. 111b-117a
Author: Rāmī, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d. 1392 or 3 رامى، حسن بن محمد
Title: Kitāb-i anīs al-ʻushshāq
Title: كتاب انيس العشاق

Incomplete copy

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 112 no. CCCXXVIII

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Form: other
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Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim حسين بن القاسم

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History

Origin: 987 AH; 1579 CE 991 AH; 1583 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated by N. Hobart in 1655.

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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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