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    Nihāyat al-ʻuqūl
    نهاية العقول | Risalah-e Iman
    Manuscript. Persian Ttitle from fol. 1b. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; pages reinforced around edges with 4 cm wide borders; marginal notations with some text loss due to trimming; black ink; no catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 14.5 x 8 cm. Fol. 1b-22a. Library of Congress....
    • Contributor: Rāzī, Fakhr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn ʻumar
    • Date: 1845

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    Levha (panel) in honor of Imam 'Ali Levha (panel) in honor of Imam 'Ali, writen in Arabic with Persian eulogistic quatrain honoring Persian kings Jamshid and Feridun. Typical of 19th-century Ottoman-Turkish calligraphic traditions. Dimensions of Written Surface: 23.4 (w) x 15.1 (h) cm Executed on a thick beige piece of paper, the calligraphic panel is provided with a frame decorated with painted gold flower motifs. The right and left vertical borders...
    • Contributor: Farid Al-Din
    • Date: 18??
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    Gulshan-i tawḥīd
    گلشن توحيد /
    Tauhid (the belief in the unity of God) is a central tenet of Islam that also serves as one of the main inspirations of the Masnavi (The spiritual couplets) of Maulana Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73). This principle also appears in the title of Ibrahim Shahidi Dadah's book Gulshan-i Tauḥīd (Garden of Unitarianism), a work that was inspired by Rumi's well-loved Masnavi. Shahidi Dadah...
    • Contributor: Shāhidī Dadah Mughlavī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Ṣāliḥ - Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī
    • Date: 1817

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    Hāz̲ā al-kitāb al-mustaṭāb al-musammá bih Khvān-i yaghmā
    هذا الکتاب المستطاب المسمى به خوان يغما / | Khvān-i yaghmā
    Manuscript. Persian Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and overlining in red; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 13 x 6 cm. 1b-104a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M306. Binding: brown leather frame and spine with embossed edges and...
    • Contributor: Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān
    • Date: 18??

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    Insha-ʼi ʻajūbīyah
    انشۀ عجوبيه | Inshai ajubiyah | Inshā-ʼi khalīfah
    Guide to writing both official and private correspondence.
    • Date: 1815

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    Bāb-i haftum dar imāmat
    باب هفتم در امامت
    Summary of Shīʻah doctrine and the Imamate.
    • Contributor: Dihlawī, ʻabd Al-ʻazīz Ibn Aḥmad
    • Date: 1840

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    Iskandarnāmah
    اسكندرنامه
    Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Papaer; thick unpolished Indian paper; some pages colored pink; text within ruled border of three fine lines in black and red ink; black ink, section headings in red; numerous marginal and interlinear notes and comments; beginning of the poem on fol. 1b is in a much later hand; 6 leaves of...
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 18??

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    Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Gulistān
    هذا كتاب گلستان
    Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color, unpolished laid-paper; with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; manuscript appears to be an older manuscript (perhaps 18th century) with missing sections and conclusion added by a later hand and dated 1238 [1822 or 1823], paper of newer section is also laid paper with horizontal chain...
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1822

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    Qurʼān bā tarjumah-i Fārsī Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red...
    • Date: 1877

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    Īn mujallad-i suvvum ast az Kitāb-i ḥayāt al-qulūb tālīf khādim-i akhbār aʼimmah-ʼi aṭhār Muḥammad Bāqir ibn-i Muḥammad Taqī
    اين مجلد سوم است از كتاب حيوة القلوب تاليف خادم اخبار ائمة اطهار محمد باقر بن محمد تقي | Hyât-ul-Kuloob, or Life of Hearts, vol. III
    Biographies of Pre-Islamic prophets, Qurʼanic prophets and Shiite Imams.
    • Contributor: Merrick, James Lyman - Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad Taqī
    • Date: 1837

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    [Anonymous Islamic treatise on creation in Persian] Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Mīrzā Muḥammad Shīrāzī. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords. Naskh;...
    • Date: 1877

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    Malfūẓāt
    ملفوظات | Malfoozate Teemoor
    Memoirs of Timur originally written in Chagatay, now lost, translated into Persian by the Mughal scholar Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī. The 14th-century Turkic-Mongol ruler Timur (Tamerlane) wrote a memoir in Chagatai Turkish, the original of which is now lost. The work was intended as a book of advice for princes and rulers and has been given various titles over the years, including, as in this...
    • Contributor: Timur - Abū Ṭālib Al-Ḥusaynī
    • Date: 1851

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    Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn
    تحفة المؤمنين | Manuscript on treatment of illness by herbs
    Work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin
    • Date: 1830

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    Dīvān-i silsilah va al-z̲ahab min ashʻār
    ديوان سلسلة و ال-ذهب من شسعار /
    Dīvān-i Silsilah va al-Zahab (literally, The collection book of the chain of gold) is a work of Persian literature in verse. It forms volume one of a seven-volume literary collection of Mowlana Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-92), the famous Persian scholar, poet, and Sufi. The entire collection is known as Haft awrang (The seven thrones) and was one of Jami's first major works....
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1830

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    Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Mus̲allas̲ah
    هذا کتاب مثلثه | Kitāb-i Mus̲allas̲ah | Mus̲allas̲ah
    Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Abī Turāb al-Sirḥānī. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in Naskh; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-10 caused by worm damage at top of page, with no loss of text. Naskh;...
    • Contributor: Badīʻī Tabrīzī
    • Date: 1867

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    Siyah Mashq Qajar era Siyah Mashq Calligraphy based on Nasta'liq script 19th cent. Shekastah (Broken) Script. A number of other siyah mashq sheets are held in the Library of Congress. See in particular 1-87-154.45, 1-84-154.46, 1-85-154.88, 1-87-154.142, and 1-86-154.144. As an established genre, practice sheets abided to certain rules of formal compositions, largely guided by rhythm and repetition (Safwat 1996, 32). Although siyah mashq sheets survive...
    • Date: 18??
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    Muntakhab-i Mas̲navī-i sharīf
    منتخب مثنوي شريف
    Selections of the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
    • Contributor: ʻarīf Jābirī, Shāh ʻālim Gharīb - Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī
    • Date: 1845

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    Sharh-i namaz This work is not a commentary on the namāz, but a selection of Qurʼānic sūrahs and prayers to be read during Ramaḍān.
    • Contributor: Ṭālib Nizhād
    • Date: 1825

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    Tārīkh-i Quṭb-i Shāhīyah
    تاريخ قطب شاهيه | Taʼrīkh-i Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭbshāhī
    History of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah, Sultan of Golconda and the Qutb Shahi dynasty and includes the historical, political and social events prevalent in Hyderabadi during the Qutb Shahi period.
    • Contributor: Munro, Thomas - Mirzā ʻalī Bayg Riz̤ā Hādī
    • Date: 1858

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    Huva Rubāʻīyāt Ḥakīm-i Khayyām
    هو رباعيات حكيم خيام | Rubāʻīyāt Ḥakīm-i Khayyām
    Manuscript. Persian. Caption title on fol. 1a. Written by ʻAbbāsʻalī [illegible]. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; coarse, unpolished, light greyish tan color commercial paper; black ink; catchwords. Nastaʻlīq; 10 lines in...
    • Contributor: Omar Khayyam
    • Date: 1867

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    Nuskhah-i Divān-i Hilālī
    Dīvān-i Halālī
    The poems of Badr al-Dīn al-Hilālī with an introduction.
    • Contributor: Hilālī, Badr Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1814

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    Kitāb-i akhlāq al-muḥsinī
    كتاب اخلاق المحسني
    Text on fundamentals of Islamic ethics.
    • Contributor: Munro, Thomas - Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 1807

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    Ṣanāyiʻ-i asṭurlāb
    صنايع اسطرلاب
    Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with...
    • Contributor: Qāʼinī, Qāsim ʻalī
    • Date: 1849

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    Risālah-ʼi Khiradʹnāmah-ʼi Amīrī
    رسالۀ خردنامۀ اميرى / | Khiradʹnāmah-ʼi Amīrī
    Poems written in praise of ʻAbdurraḥmān K̲h̲ān̲, the Amir of Afghanistan. Risālah-ʼi Khiradʹnāmah-ʼi Amīrī (Epistle of princely wisdom) is a short work written in the form of a commentary on what apparently are the musings of the Afghan ruler 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (reigned 1880-1901) on the topic of 'aql (intellect). 'Abd al-Rahman's observations concern both the variability in the allocation of reason and intellect...
    • Contributor: Qandahārī, ʻabd Al-Raʼūf
    • Date: 1888

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