Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan المشاركة في الفهرسة: المخطوطات الاسلامية في جامعة ميشيغان

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 863 Title: al-Maqāmāt,[863, i.e. 1459].المقامات,[863ه, 1459م]. Author: Ḥarīrī,1054-1122.حريري. Place/Date of Production: [1459]. Size: 237 leaves :paper ;27 cm. Summary: Elegant copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s (d.1122) celebrated Maqāmāt or Sessions modeled after those of al-Hamadhānī (d.1008). Other Title(s): MaqāmātمقاماتTitle from inscription on 'title page' (p.1):هذا كتاب مقامات حريريHāẕā Kitāb-i Maqāmāt-i Ḥarīrī Subject(s): Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800.Manuscripts, Arabic--Michigan--Ann Arbor. Language: Arabic. Notes: Ms. codex.Title from close on p.473. Incipit: "اللهم انا [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 901 Title: [Risālah dar maṣāʼb-i Ahl-i Bayt,18th century?].[رساله در مصايب اهل بيتالقرن 18م؟]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [17--?]. Size: 230 leaves :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Fine though acephalous copy of a work in twenty chapters (مجلس) on the tragedies suffered by the family of the Prophet, particularly the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusayn. Other Title(s): Title from [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 895 Title: Gulistān,[1185?, i.e. 1771 or 1772?].گلستان,[1185ه؟, 1771 او 1772م؟]. Author: Saʻdīسعدى. Place/Date of Production: [Chīnāpatan,1771 or 1772?]. Size: 1 v. (294 p.) :paper ;22 cm. Summary: Elegant copy of the Gulistān, celebrated collection of moralizing anecdotes in rhymed prose interspersed with verse (maqāmah form), composed in 1258 by the renowned Persian poet and prose writer, Saʻdī (d.1292). Other Title(s): كلستان Subject(s): Persian poetry--747-1500Sufi poetry, Persian--Early [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 894 Title: [Bahāristān,1073, i.e. 1662 or 1663].[بهارستان,1073ه, 1662 أو 1663م]. Author: Jāmī,1414-1492جامى. Place/Date of Production: [1662 or 1663]. Size: 89 leaves :paper ;21 cm. Summary: Fine copy of Jāmī's collection of sayings, anecdotes, short notes and stories. Other Title(s): Behari-stan e Djami Subject(s): Persian literature--747-1500.Persian prose literature--Early works to 1800.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor. Language: Persian. Notes: Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloguer. Incipit: "چو مرغ امر ذى بالى ز آغاز نه از [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 892 Title: [Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn va Muntakhab-i ashʻār,1137, i.e. 1725].[مجمع البحرين و منتخب اشعار,1137ه, 1725م]. Author: Kātibī Turshīzī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh,d. ca. 1434كاتبى ترشيزى، محمد بن عبد الله. Place/Date of Production: [1725]. Size: 100 leaves :paper ;17 cm. Summary: Fine copy of Majmaʻ al-baḥrayn, an allegorical Ṣūfī poem addressing the loves of Nāẓir and Manẓūr by the Persian poet Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 891 Title: Durr-i maknūn,[1240, i.e. 1825].در مكنون,[1240ه, 1825م]. Author: ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ Gujarātī.عبد الفتاح گجراتى. Place/Date of Production: [1825]. Size: 118 leaves :paper ;21 cm. Summary: Fine copy of a selection of excerpts from Rūmī's (d.1273) celebrated Mas̲navī compiled and elucidated by ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Gujarātī. Other Title(s): Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Subject(s): Sufi poetry, Persian--History and criticism.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor.Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,--Maulana,--1207-1273.--Mas̲navī. Language: Persian. Notes: Ms. codex.Title from [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 887 Title: Fatḥnāmah fī ʻilm al-lughah,[1113?, i.e. 1702?].فتحنامه في علم اللغة,[1113ه؟, 1702م؟]. Author: Abū al-Khayr ibn Saʻd al-Anṣārī,fl. 1583.ابو الخير بن سعد الانصارى. Place/Date of Production: [1702?]. Size: 321 leaves :paper ;30 cm. Summary: Careful copy of an Arabic-Persian dictionary by Abū al-Khayr ibn Saʻd al-Anṣārī (fl. 1583). Other Title(s): Title from opening matter (p.16):فتح الكتابTitle from colophon on p.653:فتحنامه فى علم اللغة Subject(s): Persian language--Dictionaries--Arabic.Arabic [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 886 Title: Maqālāt-i Shaykh-i Niẓāmī,[1106, i.e. 1694].مقالات شيخ نظامى,[1106ه, 1694م]. Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī,1140 or 41-1202 or 3نظامى گنجوى. Place/Date of Production: [1694]. Size: 296 leaves :paper ;30 cm. Summary: Exquisite copy of Niẓāmī’s Khamsah (quintet) with Makhzan al-asrār, Khusraw va Shīrīn, Laylá (Laylī) va Majnūn, Haft Paykar, and Iskandarʻnāmah (Sharafʻnāmah and Iqbālʻnāmah, in titlepiece on 'title page' (p.9) distinguished as Iskandarʻnāmah and [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 885 Title: Bahār-i ʻajam,[19th century].بهار عجم,[قرن 19م]. Author: Bahār, Lālah Tīk Chand.بهار، لاله تيک چند. Place/Date of Production: [18--]. Size: 1 v. :paper ;32 cm. Summary: Elegant copy of the dictionary of words and idioms used by the Persian poets compiled by Tīk Chand Bahār (d.1766) with added preface. Other Title(s): Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Subject(s): Persian language--Dictionaries--Persian.Persian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.6 Title: Jild-i shishum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,[17th century?].جلد ششم روضه الصفا,القرن 17م؟]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [16--?]. Size: 517 leaves :paper ;28 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the sixth volume, addressing Tīmūr and his successors to the death of Abū Saʻīd, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.2 Title: Daftar-i duvvum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ :[1241, i.e. 1826].دفتر دوم روضه الصفا[1241ه, 1826م]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [1826]. Size: 580 leaves :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the second volume, addressing the Prophet and al-Khulafāʼ al-Rāshidūn, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 875 Title: Risālah-i Maṭlūb al-fuqarāʼ va muntakhab-i irshād al-vāṣilīn,[19th century?].رساله مطلوب الفقراء ومنتخب ارشاد الواصلين,[القرن 19م؟]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 17 leaves :paper ;17 cm. Summary: Careful copy of an anonymous Ṣūfī treatise. Table of contents (فهرست) at opening on p.3. Other Title(s): Title from upper cover label:رساله مطلوب الفقرا و منتخب ارشاد الواصلينTitle [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 874 Title: Risālah-i Maʻrifat al-maẕāhib,[19th century?].رساله معرفت المذاهب,[القرن 19م؟]. Author: Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Ghazālī,fl. 14th cent. ?محمود طاهر غزالى. Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 11 leaves :paper ;16 cm. Summary: Careful copy of the work on various Islamic sects by Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Ghazāli known as Niẓām-i Mudarris (fl. 14th cent. ?). Table of contents (فهرست) at opening (p.6) Other Title(s): Title from label on upper [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 864 Title: Divān-i S̲anāʼī,[19th century?].ديوان ثنائى,[القرن 19م؟]. Author: S̲anāʼī, Ḥusayn ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Mashhadī,d. 1587?ثنائى, حسين ابن غياث الدين على المشهدى. Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 84 leaves :paper ;24 cm. Summary: Composite copy of the Dīvān of S̲anāʼī (Ḥusayn ibn Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʻAlī al-Mashhadī, d.1587?), acephalous and incomplete, possibly compiled from two incomplete copies with blank replacement leaves inserted where [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 859 Title: Haza Divan-ı Vahhab-i Ümmî,[17th century?].هذا ديوان وهاب امى,[القرن 17م؟]. Author: Vahhab-i Ümmî Abdülvahab,d. 1595.وهاب امى عبد الوهاب. Place/Date of Production: [16--?]. Size: 1 v. (335 p.) :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the dīvān of Vahib-i Ümmî (Vahibi, Vahhab-i Ümmî) Abdülvahab (d.1595). Other Title(s): Title from inscription adjacent to heading at opening on p.2:ديوان وهاب امىDivan-ı Vahhab-ı ÜmmîDivan-ı Vahib-i ÜmmîDivan-ı Vehhab-i [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 872 Title: [Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ,19th century?].[ديوان حافظ,القرن 19م؟]. Author: Ḥāfiẓ,14th cent.حافظ. Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 167 leaves :paper ;24 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the Dīvān of the masterful poet Ḥāfiẓ (Khvājah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, d.1390?). Other Title(s): Divan e Hafiz Subject(s): Persian poetry--747-1500.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor. Language: Persian. Notes: Ms. codex.Title supplied by cataloguer. Incipit: "الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كاسا و ناولها كه عشق آسان نمود اول ولى [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 870 Title: Inshā-i Harkarn,[early 18th century?].انشا هركرن,[آغاز قرن 18م؟]. Author: Harikaṇa,Multānīهركرن. Place/Date of Production: [17--?]. Size: 1 v. (165 p.) :paper ;21 cm. Summary: Elegant copy of the collection of model letters of appointment and other official documents compiled (likely between 1625 and 1631) by Harkarn ibn Mathurādās of Multān, secretary (munshī) of Iʻtibār Khān (d.1625). Other Title(s): Irshād al-ṭālibīnارشاد الطالبينHer KernInshā-i HerkernInsha-i Herkerm Subject(s): Formularies [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 857 Title: Kıssa-yi Ebülmihcen ve sair-i mucizat,[1140, i.e. 1727 or 1728].قصۀ ابو المحجن وسائر معجزات,[1140ه, 1727 او 1728م]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [1727 or 1728]. Size: 76 leaves :paper ;21 cm. Summary: Careful copy of a poetic rendering of uncertain authorship relating the tale of Abū Miḥjan ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb, Arab poet of [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 871 Title: Ruzname-yi hazret-i Şeyh Vefa,[17th century?].روزنامۀ حضرت شيخ وفاء,[القرن 17م؟]. Author: Vefa,Şeyh,d. 1490..شيخ وفاء. Place/Date of Production: [16--?]. Size: 8 leaves :paper ;207 x 141 (157 x 113) mm. bound to 212 x 148 mm. Summary: Fine copy of the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490) comprised mainly of tables for calendar conversion, etc. with instructions in Turkish. Other [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 869 Title: Dīvān-i Mushfiqī Bukhārī,[17th century?].ديوان مشفقى بخارى,[قرن 17م؟]. Author: Mushfiqī.مشفقى. Place/Date of Production: [16--?]. Size: 191 leaves :paper ;22 cm. Summary: Elegant copy of the Dīvān of the Tajik poet Mushfiqī (ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, d.1588) with qaṣāʼid, ghazalīyāt, muqaṭṭaʻāt, rubaʻīyāt, etc. as well as his brief mas̲navī Sāqī-nāmah (pp.375-381). Other Title(s): PoemsDiwan i Mushfiki i Bukhari Subject(s): Persian poetry--1500-1796.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor. Genre: Headpieces (layout features)19th century. Language: Persian. Notes: Ms. codex.Title from [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 861 Title: Kitāb al-Mas̲navī al-Mawlavī al-maʻnavī,[1314 to 1316, i.e. 1897 to 1899].كتاب المثنوى المولاوى المعنوى,[1314ه إلى 1316ه, 1897م إلى 1899م]. Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,Maulana,1207-1273جلال الدين رومي,مولانا. Place/Date of Production: [1897-1899]. Size: 1 v. :paper ;27 cm. Summary: Elegant copy of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s celebrated didactic poetical work in double verses. Other Title(s): Mas̲navī.مثنوىMas̲navī al-Mawlavī al-maʻnavīMathnawī al-Mawlawī al-maʻnawīمثنوى مولاوى معنوىMas̲navī-i Mawlavī-i maʻnavīمثنوى معنوىMas̲navī-i maʻnavī Subject(s): Sufi [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 884 Title: [Majmūʻah,late 17th or early 18th century?].[مجموعه,پایان قرن 17م يا آغاز قرن 18م؟]. Place/Date of Production: [1680-1720?]. Size: 1 v. :paper ;28 cm. Summary: Careful copy of a vast majmūʻah of prose (inshāʼ) and verse, including copies of several letters (maktūb) from Shāh Jahān (r.1628-57), Shāh ʻAbbās II (r.1642–1666), etc., with detailed contents listing added at opening (pp.15-18). Opens [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.8 Title: Khātimah-ʼi Tārīkh-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,[1095, i.e. 1684].خاتمۀ تاريخ روضه الصفا,1095ه, 1684م]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [1684]. Size: 138 leaves :paper ;29 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the eighth volume or Khātimah of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid historian Muḥammad ibn [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.4 Title: Daftar-i chahārum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,[1070, i.e. 1660].دفتر چهارم روضة الصفا,[1070ه, 1660م]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [1660]. Size: 268 leaves :paper ;29 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the fourth volume, addressing the dynasties contemporary with the ʻAbbāsids, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.5 Title: [Jild-i panjum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,late 17th century?].جلد پنجم روضة الصفا,پایان قرن 17م؟]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [16--?]. Size: 215 leaves :paper ;31 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the fifth volume, addressing Chingiz Khān and his successors to the time of Tīmūr, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.3 Title: Jild-i sivvum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,[1241, i.e. 1826].جلد سوم روضه الصفا,[1241ه, 1826م]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [1826]. Size: 182 leaves :paper ;31 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the third volume, addressing the twelve Imāms, the Umayyads and the ʻAbbāsids, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.1 Title: Jild-i avval-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,[1241, i.e. 1825].جلد اول روضة الصفا[1241ه, 1825م]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [1825]. Size: 283 leaves :paper ;31 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the first volume, addressing the creation to Yazdegerd, of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 860 v.7 Title: [Jild-i hashtum-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā,1250, i.e. 1834].[جلد هشتم روضة الصفا,1250ه, 1834م]. Author: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh,1433-1498.مير جواند، محمد بن جواندشاه. Place/Date of Production: [1834]. Size: 81 leaves :paper ;24 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the final (typically eighth) volume or Khātimah of the celebrated universal history Rawz̤at al-ṣafāʼ fī sīrat al-anbiyāʼ va al-mulūk va al-khulafāʼ by the Tīmūrid historian [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 899 Title: Tuḥfat al-ʻIrāqayn,[18th century?].تحفة العراقين,[القرن 18م؟]. Author: Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī,ca. 1126-1198 or 9خاقانى، افضل الدين شروانى. Place/Date of Production: [17--?]. Size: 108 leaves :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Fine though defective copy (lacking at end) of the mas̲navī describing the author's ḥājj journey from Shirvān to Mecca and back by the outstanding Persian poet Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī Khāqānī (d.1199). Other Title(s): Unidentified-Can you [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 898 Title: [Mukhtārāt fī tārīkh al-Dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah,19th century?].[مختارات في تاريخ الدولة العثمانية,القرن 19م؟]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 27 leaves :paper ;26 cm. Summary: Transcript of excerpts from a historical work addressing the final Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos [Palaeologus] (d.1453), and the Ottoman Sultans Bayezid II (r.1481-1512), Selim I (r.1512-1520), and Süleyman [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 897 Title: [Ṭūṭīʹnāmah ... etc.,19th century?].[طوطي نامه ... إلخ,القرن 19م؟]. Author: Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn,d. 1350ضيا الدين نخشبى. Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 77 leaves :paper ;24 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the Ṭūṭīʻnāmah of Shaykh Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Nakhshabī (d.1350) in the reduced and simplified version of Muḥammad Khudavānd Qādirī (fl. 17th cent.), preceded by a selection of alphabetic and grammatical exercises with [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 896 Title: [Risālah fī tārīkh al-Maghrib fī ʻahd al-Sulṭān Mawlāy Sulaymān,late 19th century?].[رسالة في تاريخ المغرب في عهد السلطان مولاي سليمان,اواخر القرن 19م؟]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 41 leaves :paper ;22 cm. Summary: Crude transcript (arranged for annotation) of an excerpt of a larger work containing an account of the tribes and [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 890 Title: Ḥadīqat al-irshād,[early 19th century].حديقة الارشاد,[آغاز قرن 19م]. Author: Akhtar, Muḥammad Ṣādiqاختر، محمد صادق. Place/Date of Production: [1811-1864?]. Size: 1 v. (288 p.) :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Fine copy of a treatise on the art of composition by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Khān, known as Akhtar (d.1858?). Other Title(s): Hadiqat ul Irshad Subject(s): Persian language--Style.Persian language--Composition and exercises.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor. Language: Persian. Notes: Ms. codex.Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.9). Incipit: [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 888 Title: Maẓhar al-ʻajāʼib,[1242?, i.e. 1826?].مظهر العجايب,[1242ه؟, 1826م؟]. Author: Khvājah Amīr ibn Khvājah Pādishāh Khān.خواجه امير ابن خواجه پادشاه خان. Place/Date of Production: [1826?]. Size: 241 leaves :paper ;25 cm. Summary: Careful copy of a work by Khvājah Amīr valad-i Khvājah Pādishāh Khān addressing the terms and expressions used in the Dīvān of Muḥammad ibn Abī Ṭālib Ḥazīn of Lāhijān, known as [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 883 Title: ʻAyn al-bukāʼ,[1242, i.e. 1827].عين البكاء,[1242ه, 1827م]. Author: Burūjandī, Muḥammad Taqī ibn Aḥmad,fl. 17th cent.بروجندى, محمد تقى بن احمد. Place/Date of Production: [Tabrīz,1827]. Size: 203 leaves :paper ;30 cm. Summary: Fine copy of what is apparently the abridgment (mukhtaṣar) of the author's work on the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusayn. Other Title(s): Title from colophon on p.433:كتاب عين البكاTitle in al-Dharīʻah (Āghā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī):لب [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 882 Title: Daftar-i sivvum az Qiṣṣah-i Abū Muslim Marvazī,[18th century?].دفتر سيوم از قصه ابو مسلم مروزى,[القرن 18م؟]. Author: Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan.ابو طاهر طرسوسى، محمد بن حسن. Place/Date of Production: [17--?]. Size: 261 leaves :paper ;32 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the epic tale relating the life and personality of Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī (fl. 8th cent.) in the version attributed [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 881 Title: Ḥadāʼiq al-siyāḥah,[1274, i.e. 1857].حدايق السياحة[1274ه, 1857م]. Author: Shīrvānī, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn,1780-1837 or 8.شيروانى، زين العابدين. Place/Date of Production: [1857]. Size: 288 leaves :paper ;36 cm. Summary: Fine copy of a work by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Shīrvānī (d.1837) relating his extensive travels and Ṣūfic thought, completed in Shīrāz in 1827 before his departure on a final pilgrimage to Mecca, after completion of his [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 879 Title: Risale-yi tekellüm,[1296, i.e. 1879].رساله تكلم,[1296ه, 1879م]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [Tehran,1879]. Size: 1 v. (93 p.) :paper ;19 cm. Summary: Elegant copy (possibly autograph) of a treatise addressing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in four chapters witha Turkish preface, parallel Persian-Turkish text, and a brief glossary at the close. Other Title(s): Unidentified-Can you [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 868 Title: Dīvān-i Ẓahīr Fāryābī,[18th century?].ديوان ظهير فريابى,[قرن 18م؟]. Author: Ẓahīr Fāryābī, Abū al-Faz̤l Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad,d. 1201 or 2.ظهير فاريابى، ابو الفضل طاهر بن محمد. Place/Date of Production: [17--?]. Size: 116 leaves :paper ;22 cm. Summary: Fine though fragmentary copy of the Dīvān of the court poet Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū al-Faz̤l Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al-Fāryābī (d.1201). Other Title(s): Poems Subject(s): Persian poetry--747-1500.Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor. Language: Persian. Notes: Ms. codex.Title [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 865 Title: Manāzil al-ḥajj,[1219?, i.e. 1804?].منازل الحج,[1219ه؟, 1804م؟]. Author: Bandah ʻAlī ibn al-Mīrzā Khayrāt ʻAlī,fl. 1799.بنده على بن الميرزا خيرات على. Place/Date of Production: [1804?]. Size: 1 v. (58 p.) :paper ;19 cm. Summary: Fine copy of the author's account of his pilgrimage from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina as well as holy sites in Iraq (see in al-Dharīʻah, no.6893 v.22 p.245). Other [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 876 Title: [Shajarat al-amānī va Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid,19th century?].[شجرت الامانى و رساله زبدة القواعد,القرن 19م؟]. Author: Qatīl, Muḥammad Ḥasan.قتيل، محمد حسن. Place/Date of Production: [18--?]. Size: 1 v. :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Careful composite copy of two concise grammatical treatises, Shajarat alamānī, a work on Persian grammar and rhetoric by Muḥammad Ḥasan Dihlavī, known as Qatīl (d.1817), and Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid, a [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 858 Title: [Kitāb-i lughāt ... etc.,پایان قرن 18 يا آغاز قرن 19م].[ كتاب لغات ... الخ,late 18th or early 19th century]. Author: Unidentified-Can you help supply this information? Please comment! Place/Date of Production: [17-- or 18--?]. Size: 130 leaves ;21 cm. Summary: Careful copy of an excerpt from a Persian-Persian dictionary from Bāb al-alif through Bāb al-nūn, followed by an excerpt from [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 856 Title: Münşeat,[late 18th century?].منشأت,[اواخر الرقن 18م؟]. Author: Atıf Mehmet Emin Efendi,d. 1771?عاطف محمد امين افندى. Place/Date of Production: [1771-1799?]. Size: 38 leaves ;24 cm. Summary: Fine copy of a collection of letters compiled by Atıf Mehmet Emin Efendi (d.1771) while he served as secretary (mektupçu / مكتوبجى) for şeyhülislam Dürri Mehmet Efendi (d.1736) during the early part of the reign of [...]

Shelfmark: Isl. Ms. 855 Title: Haza Kitab-ı Hadikatü’s-süada,[1000, i.e. 1592].هذا كتاب حديقة السعدا,[1000ه, 1592م]. Author: Fuzulî,1495?-1556فضولى. Place/Date of Production: [1592]. Size: 312 leaves :paper ;23 cm. Summary: Elegant composite copy of Fuzulî’s rendering of the suffering of the prophets, particularly Imām Ḥusayn in the tragedy at Karbalāʼ, drawn from Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī’s Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ, a Persian martyrology of ʻAlī and his family. Other Title(s): Ḥadīqat al-suʻadāحديقة السعداءHadikatü’s-süadaHadikatüssuadaHadikat [...]