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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
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • the same die) and no doubt from the same workshop, with panels of inscription of cut-out and inlaid
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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
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford
    • The faces of both have been scrubbed out and there is a little discolouration.
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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
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • Moulana Azhar of Herat, d 1475-6
    • Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford
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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
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher
    • Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford
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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
    • James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
    • Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford
    • Shiraz style of c. 1575 , in good condition for the most part.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
    • Shahjahan, Emperor of India, ca. 1592-1666
    • Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605
    • Jami (1414-1492), entitled Baharistan (Garden of spring).
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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
    • An album of 41 Indian paintings, chiefly from the Shahjahan period (1628-1658), expressive of the Mughal
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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
    • This manuscript, written in Persian, contains the story of Prince Seyf ol-Molûk and Princess Badî`ol-Jamâl
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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
    • This Persian-Arabic manuscript, written in Herat by ʿAbdallāh al-Harawī and completed Middle of Šaʿbān
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 239
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1582
    Language
    Persian
    • 4 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry and love poetry
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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
    • An album of 33 calligraphic specimens and 34 paintings, labelled (in many cases incorrectly) by Sir Gore
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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
    • of sayings and proverbs traditionally attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth rightly guided Caliph
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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
    • 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. 10
    Collection
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Library
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Date
    1560-1750
    Language
    http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/per
    • The pictures of the second group are of lesser quality with regard to composition and figure drawing.
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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
    • Among other works, this collection comprises the famous love stories of Khusraw and Shirin and Laylah
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 287
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1485
    Language
    Persian, Chagatai
    • The first mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah.
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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
    • Each page contains a hizb (smaller section, half of a juz'), and each double page a juz' (section) of
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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
    • Although the depiction of persons is standardized and lacks individuality, the use of perspective, especially
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Douce Or. b.1
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1575–1799
    Language
    Persian
    • An album of 26 Indian pictures, with 14 calligraphic specimens.
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ouseley Add. 170
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1600–1799
    Language
    Persian
    • An album of 21 Indian paintings, with 17 calligraphic specimens.