Exhibit collection of Near Eastern manuscripts, 1492-1848.

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Exhibit collection of Near Eastern manuscripts, 1492-1848.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41578905

The collection consists of illustrated and illuminated manuscripts from the Safawid, Ottoman, Qajar, and Timurid domains, illustrated Armenian scrolls, decorative lacquered book covers, and several artifacts. There are eight works of belles-lettres, including two royal correspondence handbooks (one Persian, one Ottoman Turkish); four works of a religious nature, including two Koran fragments and a brilliantly illuminated Koran in a Qajar lacquered binding; four works of history, including manuscript versions of unedited texts; and single volumes of lexicography, logic, and philosophy. Of particular scholarly interest is a version of the ninth section of Kemalpaşazade's Histories of the Ottoman House (Al-daftar al-tāsiʻ min al-dafātir al-marsūma bi al-Sulaymāniyya), and Muʻīn al-Dīn Yazdī's Humāyūn nāmah, yā, Mayāhib-i ilāhī (Book of Humāyūn, or, Divine gifts). The collection includes numerous fine examples of Nastaʻlīq script, one striking example of Divani calligraphy, and many beautiful leaves demonstrating ornate Qajar illumination, illustration, and decoration techniques. Artifacts include embroidered purses and a leather book bag.

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University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7438848

University of California, Los Angeles

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Ḥafiẓ, 14th cent.

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Robert Blair Munro Binning is the author of a grammar of colloquial Arabic (British Museum Catalogue). From the description of Dīvān, [17--?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79767054 From the description of Dīvān, [17--?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702163175 ...

Kashfī, Jaʻfar ibn Abī Isḥāq, d. 1850 or 51.

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Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274

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Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 1469-1534

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Jāmī, 1414-1492

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Muʻīn al-Dīn Yazdi, d. 1387.

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ʻĀrifī, d. ca. 1449.

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Mehmet Subhı̂, d. 1769.

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Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5.

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Ömer Bosnavi, 18th cent.

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Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn Maʻrūf, fl. 15th cent?

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