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Persian Manuscripts

Majmūʻah manuscript
Call Number: Gen Mss Majmūʻah
Publication Date: 1770-1771
al-Qurʼān
Call Number: Gen Mss Qur'an 1833
Publication Date: 1833-1834
Qur'an juz XII
Call Number: Gen Mss Qur'an 16--
Publication Date: 17th century
[Recent acquisition]
Khamsah Niẓāmī
Call Number: Gen Mss Nizami
Publication Date: 17th century
Fiqh manuscript
Call Number: Gen Mss Fiqh 1717
Publication Date: 1717
Ghazaliyat of Sa'dī
Call Number: Gen Mss Sadi
Publication Date: between 1800 and 1900

Ṭūṭīʹnāmah.
Call Number: Archives Rare Books ND3247 .T8
Publication Date: 1976
[Facsimile of the T̤ūt̤ī-nāma at the Cleveland Museum of Art]

Shahnameh
Call Number: [recent acquisition]
Publication Date: 1873/4
Kitab Mahabharat manzum bi'l-tasawir
Call Number: [recent acquisition]
Publication Date: circa 1880
Mahabharata, in verse, illustrated
Ramayan nazm Urdu
Call Number: [recent acquisition]
Publication Date: circa 1880
The Ramayana, in Urdu. Kanpur: Munshi Nawal Kishore.
Ghiyas al-Lughat
Call Number: [recent acquisitions]
Publication Date: circa 1875
[Lucknow]: Munshi Nawal Kishore. 10 illustrations in the text including a depiction of the Zodiac (volume 2 p. 188), large folding map of Asia .
Divan-i Ghalib
Call Number: [recent acquisitions]
Publication Date: circa 1880
Kanpur: Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880
Divan-i Zafar
Call Number: [recent acquisitions]
Publication Date: circa 1880
Nuskhat 'Aql va-Shu'ur
Call Number: [recent acquisitions]
Publication Date: 1863

al-Qurʼān
Call Number: Gen Mss Qurʼan 18--
Publication Date: between 1800 and 1899

Qurʼan.
Call Number: Art:2 Coran
Publication Date: published 1972 [original written in 1000CE]
[Facsimile of the Qur'an manuscript produced in Baghdad in 1000CE by Ibn al-Bawwab, now in the Chester Beatty Library]
Maḥbūb al-qulūb
Call Number: Gen Mss Collection ffolio
Publication Date: probably between 1800 and 1850
[Fragment: 3 leaves]

Madh manuscript
Call Number: Gen Mss Madh
Publication Date: probably between 1800 and 1899

Dala'il al-khayrat
Call Number: Gen:1 Dala'il
Publication Date: circa 1850
[recent acquisition]