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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
    • Decoration: The manuscript at present contains 16 miniatures (though there
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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
    • Folio 38b: The angel Michael and the fallen angels in the outer darkness.
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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
    • Between the foreground and the rising hillside in the background is a group of four trees, on one of
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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
    • The Heavenly Ascent of the Prophet.
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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
    • Contemporary binding very similar to that of Persian MS 35 (the gilt panels on the outer faces are from
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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
    • Among the Shiites (from šīʿat ʿAlī, the “party of Ali"), Ali plays an important religious role as the
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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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    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
    • , as well as about people important to the subsequent history of the eastern part of the Islamic world
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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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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Ouseley Add. 175
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1521
    Language
    Persian
    • 3 works by 3 authors on the subject of Persian poetry
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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
    • largest pictorial cycles of the Shāhnāma, the Persian Book of Kings.
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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
    • specimens and 34 paintings, labelled (in many cases incorrectly) by Sir Gore Ouseley as portraits of the
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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
    • Two other pages are dedicated to one of the most popular motifs of Persian book painting: the love of
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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
    • use of the students of the persian class (by Lumsden), Kalkutta 1810 in 4º und in einer anderen lithografierten
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    Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Elliott 254
    Collection
    Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)
    Library
    Oxford. Bodleian Library
    Date
    1595
    Language
    English, Persian
    • Manuscript commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542-1605), containing stories by the Persian poet
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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
    • The composition of the sumptuously illuminated opening double page is dominated by two vertical rectangles
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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
    • Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen Beschrieben von Joseph Aumer (München 1866, Nachdruck Wiesbaden 1970; auch online
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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