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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 856
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    16th century
    Language
    fa
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    • must have been about 25 miniatures originally, as some pages with miniatures have been removed) in the
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 3
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    12 Dhu'l-hijja 1041 AH (1632 CE)
    Language
    fa
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    • Brightly coloured birds in the trees.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 6
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    24 Rabi' II, 824 AH (1421 CE)
    Language
    fa
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    • All the illuminations are in early sixteenth-century style.
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 36
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Safar 849 (1445 CE)
    Language
    fa
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    • In the foreground, the prince gallops in pursuit of a pair of wild donkeys, his bow drawn, while three
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    Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Persian MS 908
    Collection
    Manchester Digital Collections
    Library
    The John Rylands Library
    Date
    Tuesday, 8 Rabi' II 1038 (1628 CE)
    Language
    fa
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    • end (270b and 271a), both enclosed in richly illuminated borders.
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Supplément persan 237
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1634 ( 24 octobre), 1673 (23 janvier)
    Language
    persan
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    • Mu‛īn al-Dīn Muḥ. Zamağī Isfizārī
    • Mu‛īn al-Dīn Muḥ. Zamağī Isfizārī.
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 550
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    17th century, 1623/24
    Language
    Persian
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    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains the story of Prince Seyf ol-Molûk and Princess Badî`ol-Jamâl
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    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 501
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Cologny. Fondation Martin Bodmer
    Date
    16th century, 1559
    Language
    Persian
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    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains a selection of the “One Hundred Sayings by Ali,” a collection
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. pers. 10
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1560-1750
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per
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    • Several painters, working at different times, were involved in its illumination; the miniatures thus
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    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek, M V 5
    Collection
    e-codices
    Library
    Basel. Universitätsbibliothek
    Date
    15th century, middle of Šaʿbān 871 h. [= end of March 1467]
    Language
    Arabic, Persian
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    • This Persian-Arabic manuscript, written in Herat by ʿAbdallāh al-Harawī and completed Middle of Šaʿbān
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. pers. 132
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1091 [h.q.] [1680]
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per
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    • in the background, reveals European influence.
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. pers. 21
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    16. Jahrhundert
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per
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    • 4º und die erste Hälfte davon in Bd IV der Selections for the use of the students of the persian class
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. arab. 1118
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1714
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/ara
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    • The complete text is compressed onto only 33 leaves with 48 lines to a page in very small but clear naskh
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ouseley Add. 173
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1500–1800
    Language
    English, Persian
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    • An album of 33 calligraphic specimens and 34 paintings, labelled (in many cases incorrectly) by Sir Gore
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Or. a.3
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1600–1799
    Language
    Persian
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    • An album of of 38 Indian paintings in three sets: (1) Fourteen portraits in the Mughal styles of the
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    Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. pers. 207
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    952 [h.q.] [1545]
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/fre, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per
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    • auf Fol 386 ein Abschnitt über die Tugenden und Eigenschaften Ġāzān Ḫāns, welcher das enthält, was in
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Supplément persan 124
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1478 ( 25 novembre)
    Language
    persan
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    • Sayyid Mu‛īn al-Dīn ‛Alī b. Naṣīr al-Dīn Hārūn b. Abī l-Qāsim Ḥusayn Tabrīzī
    • Sayyid Mu‛īn al-Dīn ‛Alī b. Naṣīr al-Dīn Hārūn b. Abī l-Qāsim Ḥusayn Tabrīzī, dit Qāsim Anvār.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
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    • Manuscript commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605), containing stories by the Persian poet
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Or. a.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1600–1699
    Language
    Persian
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    • An album of 41 Indian paintings, chiefly from the Shahjahan period (1628-1658), expressive of the Mughal
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    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Supplément persan 5
    Collection
    Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    Library
    Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits
    Date
    1756
    Language
    persan.
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    • Eusebius of Caesarea, c 263-c 340, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine
    • Gulbenkian, « The Translation of the Four Gospels into Persian », Cahiers de la Nouvelle Revue de