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author
title	Khulasat al-Akhbar?
language	in persian manuscript paper
place/date	persia 16th century?
physical app.	Persian, indigenous paper, 384 ff., nasta`liq script, 28.5 x 18 cm, 21 lines to the page, black ink with rubrics, entire text set within a composite frame (blue, red, gold, occasionally broken because of the corroded copper elements in the inks), loosely held in a full-leather Oriental binding, which does not belong to the volume.	price	€ 995.00
content	An unidentified World History, the beginning leaf of which is missing. The first chapter (Maqala, f. 2a) treats the histories of the Prophets. The volume ends with an epilogue (f. 362b) containing a description of the city of Herat and mention of its monuments and notables. The last person mentioned (f. 383a) is Ustad Shaykhi Nami. The text could possibly be identified with the Khulasat al-Akhbar, the abridgment made in 905/1499-1500 by Ghiyath al-Din b. Humam al-Din Khwandamir of the Rawdat al-Safa by his grandfather Mirkhwand. The description of the content by Hermann Ethé, MS London, India Office, No. 76) exactly fits that of the present manuscript. On ff. 383b-384b are family notes on the birth of children dated 1255/1839 (in both eras), and later. Loosely inserted is a note in Russian, one leaf written on either side with pencil.	nr.	mspers35

author	Ni'mat Allah Wali
title	Sharh-i Lama'at
language	in persian manuscript paper
place/date	1223 A.H./1808 A.D.
physical app.	Collective volume with texts in Persian, indigenous and European laid papers, 21.5 x 13 cm, 146 ff., expert nasta`liq script by one copyist (except f. 146a), black ink with rubrics, illuminated double opening page (ff. 1b-2a), all texts set within a composite frame (blue, black, gold), dated Safar 1040 (1630) and copied by Kamaran (colophon on f. 39b), sewn but now without binding (remnants of a cloth back still visible).	price	€ 595.00
content	The titles of Nos. 1, 2 and 4 are given on the title-page in front (f. 1a). (1) ff. 1b-39b. Diwan-i Abu Turab Beg. (2) ff. 40b-81a. Diwan-i Qadi Nur, using the nom de plume Nuri. (3) ff. 82b-107a. Unidentified collection of poetry. (4) ff. 108b-146a. Diwan-i Mirza Nizam Dast-i Ghayb. The final page, f. 146a, is written in a different hand.	nr.	mspers56

author	Hafiz Shirazi
title	The Diwan, collected poetry
language	in persian manuscript paper
place/date	N.p. 1057A.H./1647A.D.
physical app.	Persian, European paper ( ?), 182 ff., 19.8 x 12.2 cm, nasta`liq script in several different hands, 14 lines to the page, text set in a frame in poetical lay-out, dated Rabi` II 1057 (1647) copied by Sayyid Muhammad, the son of Mawlana Ibrahim, the son of Sayyid Muhammad, the son of Ibrahim, the son of Sayyid Muhammad, who are descendants of Shams-i Tabrizi, the lover of Mawlana Galal al-Din Rumi (d. 672/1273), as the colophon, which is written in a hand different from most of the text in the volume, indicates (f. 182b). Copyist verse next to colophon in Turkish, indicating an Ottoman origin of the MS. Full-leather Oriental binding, rebacked.	price	€ 395.00
content	The Diwan, the collected poetry, of Hafiz Shirazi (d. 792/1390), arranged in alphabetical order according the rhyme.	nr.	mspers44

author
title	Mahabbatnama
language	in persian manuscript indigenous paper
place/date	N.p. probably 17th century
physical app.	Persian and Turkish, indigenous paper, 20 x 15 cm, ta`liq script with shekaste features, 13 lines to the page, European-style binding, pasted back and boards.	price	€ 495.00
content	Mahabbatnama (title on ff. 1b, 3b, 11b12b, 13a, 15a, 18b). The word Mahabbatnama (if one translates it as ‘Book of love’) is possibly not meant to be the title of the work, but rather the generic indication (‘Loveletter’) of a genre, of which examples are given here. The text seems to consist of a number of smaller prose parts (letters?), sometimes in Persian (f. 11b, Mahabbatnama-yi Farsi), sometimes in Turkish, that are of Sufi content. The work is not identical to the Mahabbatnama described by Hermann Ethé in MS London, India Office, No. 1869 II. At the end of the volume, from f. 31b onwards, are copies of a few genuine Ottoman letters.	nr.	mspers43

author
title	Targuma-yi Gazira-yi Mathnawi or simply Gazira-yi Mathnawi. (The island of the Mathnawi)
language	in persian/turkish manuscript paper
place/date	N.p. 1152A.H./1739-40A.D.
physical app.	Turkish and Persian, European paper, 143 ff., 15 x 10 cm, naskh script, 11 lines to the page, black ink with rubrication, full-leather Oriental binding with flap with blind tooled ornamentation (borders, centre piece, corner pieces).	price	€ 495.00
content	Targuma-yi Gazira-yi Mathnawi or simply Gazira-yi Mathnawi (, ‘The island of the Mathnawi’, title on ff. 1a,1b). Turkish translation by Yusuf Sine Gak (?, so on f. 1a) of and commentary on the beginning of the Mathnawi-yi Ma`nawi by Galal al-Din Rumi (Mawlana, d. 672/1273). The Persian verses are overlined with red ink to distinguish them from the Turkish text. The author of this Turkish version of forty couplets from the Mathnawi is, according to E.J.W. Gibb, History of Ottoman poetry, vol. 3, pp. 297 ff., Ibrahim Chelebi, with takhallus Jevri/Gawri (d. 1065/1654-5) The MS is not dated, but on f. 1a is an owner’s note by al-Hagg Sayyid Ibrahim Sar Khalifa-yi Sabiq Agha dated 1152 (1739-1740). The MS is probably not very much older.	nr.	mspers42

author
title	Collective volume with texts in religious didactic Persian
language	in persian manuscript indigenous paper
place/date	N.p. 17th century
physical app.	Collective volume with texts in religious didactic Persian, and some Arabic, indigenous paper, 50 ff., 17 x 12.5 cm, nasta`liq and naskh script in a number of different hands, half-leather Oriental binding, pasted boards.	price	€ 495.00
content	(1) ff. 1b-7a. Anonymous poem on the basics of ritual prayer. (2) ff. 7b-8b. Notes in prose and poetry. F. 9a is blank. (3) ff. 9b-20b. Didactic poem on the tenets of Islam, with prose introduction. As author is mentioned al-Hasan b. Salimi al-Tuni. The five `Ibadat are treated to some length. (4) f. 21a. Religious poetry in honour of the Prophet, in Arabic. (5) ff. 21b-24a. A short mystical text in prose and poetry. Followed on f. 24a by a few lines of poetry and quotations from the Qur’an. (6) ff. 24b-25a. Poetry, by Amir Qasim, and possibly others. (7) ff. 25b-28a. Religious didactic prose, on the Pir, the Sufi master. Followed on ff. 28a-b by poetical quotations. (8) ff. 29a-35b. Poetry from several sources, from the Diwan-i Shams by Galal al-Din Rumi (Mawlana, d. 672/1273), and possibly also (on f. 34a) poetry by Qasim (see No. 6, above). On f. 35b poetry by Mawlana Arzi. (9) f. 36a. Prayer text in Arabic. (10) ff. 36b-43b. Fasl-i Bayan-i Pir u Murid. A treatise in prose (Su’al – Gawab) on the Suf master and the Sufi apprewntice. Abrupt end on f. 43b. (11) ff. 44a-48a . Several shorter texts and fragments. (12) ff. 48b-49a. Dar Bab-i Farzand tarashidan, on shaving the son’s hair (`Aqiqa?). (13) ff. 49a-50b. Poetry (in Persian) and prayers (in Arabic).	nr.	mspers45

author
title	Collective volume with texts in Persian .
language	in persian manuscript indigenous paper
place/date	1040A.H./1630A.D.
physical app.	Collective volume with texts in Persian, indigenous and European laid papers, 21.5 x 13 cm, 146 ff., expert nasta`liq script by one copyist (except f. 146a), black ink with rubrics, illuminated double opening page (ff. 1b-2a), all texts set within a composite frame (blue, black, gold), dated Safar 1040 (1630) and copied by Kamaran (colophon on f. 39b), sewn but now without binding (remnants of a cloth back still visible).	price	€ 395.00
content	The titles of Nos. 1, 2 and 4 are given on the title-page in front (f. 1a). (1) ff. 1b-39b. Diwan-i Abu Turab Beg. (2) ff. 40b-81a. Diwan-i Qadi Nur, using the nom de plume Nuri. (3) ff. 82b-107a. Unidentified collection of poetry. (4) ff. 108b-146a. Diwan-i Mirza Nizam Dast-i Ghayb. The final page, f. 146a, is written in a different hand.	nr.	mspers63

author
title	A poetical miscellany made up of several fragments of larger works which were bound and pasted together.
language	in persian paper
place/date	N.p. 18th century?
physical app.	Persian, European paper, 35 ff., 16.5 x 9.5 cm, nasta`liq script in at least two hands, 14-16 lines to the page, black ink with rubrication, paper cover.	price	€ 150.00
content	A poetical miscellany made up of several fragments of larger works which were bound and pasted together. (1) ff. 1a-b. Fragment of a mathnawi poem, apparently the introductory part (though not the beginning) of a larger composition. (2) ff. 2a-7a. Several shorter pieces. On ff. 3b-4b is a Qasida-yi bi-Nuqta, an ode in which only undotted letters are used, by Mir Khaki. On ff. 4b-5b is a similar Qasida, by Mawlana `Ayni. F. 7b is blank. (3) ff. 8a-b. A collection of dubayt’s. (4) ff. 9a-32b. A collection of Takhmis. For most pieces the poets are mentioned by their nom de plume: Mahmud (ff. 9a-b, 22b-23a), Mayil (ff. 9b-10a), Safi (ff. 10a-b), Fani (ff. 10b-11b), Hashimi (ff. 11b-12a), Ahli (ff. 12b-13a, 24b-25a), Shawayida (ff. 13a-b), Subhi (ff. 13b-14a, 29b-30a), Samayi (ff. 14b-b), Salihi (ff. 14b-15b, 17a-18a), Baghban (ff. 15b-16a), Khaweri (ff. 16b-b), Basiri (ff. 16b-17a), `Ashiqi (ff. 18a-18b), Kamali (ff. 18b-19a), Salami (ff. 19a-20a), Darwish (ff. 20a-b), Shahidi (ff. 20b-21a), Amini (ff. 21a-b), Tahir (ff. 21b-22b), Husami (ff. 23a-b, 28b-29a), Kashwari (ff. 24a-b), Hilali (f. 25b), Nasimi (ff. 26a-b), `Ishqi (ff. 26b-27a), Zayni (ff. 27a-28a), Wahi (ff. 28a-b), Fidayi (ff. 30a-b), Halati (ff. 30b-31a), Masihi (ff. 31a-b), Bahari (f. 31b), Mu’mini (f. 32a), `Aqili (f. 32b). (5) ff. 32(bis) a-34a. A collection of Tathmin. A poet is mentioned by name: Mawlana `Ismat. F. 34b is blank.	nr.	mspers54

author
title	Bayan'Ilm-i Kaf
language	in Arabic/Turkish manuscript paper
place/date	n.p 1264A.H./1848A.D.
physical app.	Compilation of alchemical texts in Arabic and Turkish, machine-made paper, 34 ff., 22.5 x 17.5 cm, ruq`a script in one or two hands, black ink with occasional rubrication, dated 9 Ramadan <12>64 (1848, colophon on f. 33b), full-leather Oriental binding with gilded ornamentation (borders).	price	€ 395.00
content	Bayan `Ilm-i Kaf (title thus on f. 1b), purportedly transmitted from a work of the Son of al-Hariri, the author of the Maqamat (so on f. 1b). The following parts can be distinguished: Prose text in Arabic on ff. 1b-5a, poetry (mathnawi) in Turkish (ff. 5b-9b, 30a-b), Prose text(s) in Turkish (ff. 9b-30a, 30b-33b). Several recipes (Sifa) are given.	nr.	msarab427

author	copied by Girgis Makram Allah al-Bahnasawi.
title	Tartib Gum'at al-Alam. (Coptic missal (for Good Friday, and for the other days in the week preceding Easter).)
language	in Coptic/Arabic manuscript on indigenous paper
place/date	N.p. 15th century
physical app.	Coptic, with some (Christian) Arabic, some European paper (e.g. f. 228, on which the colophon is written) but mostly on indigenous paper (and therefore for the greater part probably an old manuscript: 15th century?), 21 x 14.5 cm, 228 ff. and two loose leaves, Coptic script often with large initials (e.g. f. 44b), and Arabic naskh script, black ink with rubrication, illuminated headings (ff. 1a, 10a, 22b, 78a, 92a) and numerous smaller graphical ornaments on the pages, dated a Wednesday 3 Mesory 1459 (1743 if the year 1459 is of the Era of the Martyrs), copied by Girgis Makram Allah al-Bahnasawi (colophon on ff. 228a-b), full-leather Oriental binding with flap, heavily repaired. Some of the leaves of the manuscript are loose and may be in disorder.	price	€ 6975.00
content	Tartib Gum`at al-Alam, a Coptic missal (for Good Friday, and for the other days in the week preceding Easter), and additional readings. There are several more headings to indicate the other Tartib’s. Text mostly in Coptic, with Arabic translation of the headings. Continuous Arabic text used for translations (Tafsir) from the Gospels, the Psalms and other texts, e.g. on ff. 20a-22a, 26b-27b, etc. Sometimes the Coptic and Arabic texts are in two columns on the same page (e.g. ff. 155a-160b, 216a-224a). Easter liturgy on f. 211 and following, with large Arabic script as well.	nr.	msarab403

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