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Qur'ân, fragment.
Arabic
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Rustam, Yazdigird's general, slain by Sa'd, the son of Vaqqâs the Arab.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 13 v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 203
Persian
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Afrâsiyâb gives Pîrân a robe of honor.
Firdawsî(Author)
Persian
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Narcissus (narjis), f. 209
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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According to Ibn al-Faqîh, islands in the Indian Ocean have inhabitants who have much hair on their bodies. There are also many rhinoceros on these islands. The illustration shows two such hairy men looking at a rhinoceros, f. 80
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Goat (ma'z), f. 364v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Gîv pulls Tazhâv off his horse with a noose.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Shâhnâmah [Text Page]
Firdawsî(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 150v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 175
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 119v
Persian
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A mechanical contrivance for drawing water, consists of a weathervane in the shape of a mounted rider, a servant with bowl and jug on a wooden takht, and a watercourse, f. 261v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 31
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 146
Persian
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The spring of Yâsî Khums, on the way to Erzurûm makes a great noise coming out of rocks. Animals who come there die, f. 129
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 178
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 151
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 158 v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 127 v
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 240
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Manûchihr killing his uncle Tûr by spearing him in the back.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 115
Persian
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Firdausî approaches the three poets of Shâh Mahmûd who sit reading while servants prepare meat on a spit behind them.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 30
Persian
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Rustam, fully armed and wearing his traditional tiger-skin coat and leopard hat, comes out through a gateway to kill an enraged white elephant that has trampled its keeper.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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The Bakoorat of the West fee taleem of the English language... pages 274-275
ʻArbīlī, Ibrahim Yūsuf, 1852-1919(Author)
ara,eng
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 77v
Persian
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Hen (dajâj), f. 345
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Mallows (khatmi), f. 192
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 215
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Lizard (sanab), f. 318
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 169 v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 41 v
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 281
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 89 v
Persian
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Oak tree (ballût) [top]; Apple tree (tuffâh) [bottom], f. 158
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Judith Darrett.
ara,eng
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 65
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 62
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 124
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Fennel (râziyâna) [top]; Sorrel (rîvâs) [bottom], f. 193v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 22 v
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 365V
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Iskandar talks with the prophet Khizr about his quest for the Fountain of Life, fol. 435v
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Al-Sahhat: The health, [spread]
Yabroudi, J.J.(Editor)
Arabic
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Shamsahs, [Frontispiece]
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Qur'ân, fragment.
Arabic
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Mary Carlisle.
ara,eng
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 133
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 173 v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 99v
Persian
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Isfandiyâr lays the booty of his Turan conquest before the throne of Gushtâsp.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 179 v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 51 v
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 13
Persian
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Khalid, a companion of the Prophet, sees an Ethiopian woman tearing her hair [top]; Two men listen to 'Alî lecturing from a minbar [bottom], f. 234v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Hebrew, no. 43
heb,spa
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Title page] [Sarlawh?] with "marginal drawings of gold plants, trees, and animals".
Firdawsî(Author)
Persian
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Iskandar (Alexander the Great) cuts off the head of a dragon.
Firdawsî(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 16
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 54
Persian
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Majnûn, seated alone in the wilderness, gazes pensively into the heavens, fol. 82
Hātifī, -1520 or 1521(Author) | Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī, Amir of Afghanistan, approximately 1723-1772(Sponsor)
Persian
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Jujube tree ('unnab) [top]; Aloe tree ('ûd) [bottom], f. 168v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 56 v
Persian
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An animal of Zânij with gray tiger-striped coat [top]; Two large apes of Zânij [middle]; Five colorful birds of Zânij [bottom], f. 74v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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The body of Firdausî carried to the grave by four men.
Darvîsh 'Abdî(Calligrapher) | Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876(Former owner) | Sharîf Amîdî (active 1500-1501)(Translator) | Firdawsī(Author)
Ottoman
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 96v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Will Hay.
ara,eng
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'Ajâ'ib al-makhlûqât va gharâ'ib al-mawjûdât, f. 371v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 309
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 134 v
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 40v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 193v
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 256v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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The herb alkali, or saltwort (huruz) [Misspeled - hurus] [top]; Lotus clover (handqûq) [bottom], f. 188v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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The four Evangelists, shown as four old men with walking sticks. (They are tempted by the Devil and, according to our text, three become atheists), f. 297v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 207 v
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 236v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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al-Tashrîh bi-al-Tasvîr, fol. 19v
Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 302v
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 34
Persian
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Qisas al-Anbiyâ, fol. 162
Persian
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On Jazîrat Salâmatah, there is a type of fish that can leave the water and climb trees in order to eat the fruit. The illustration shows a man holding one of these fish while two others climb a tree and to more swim in silver - colored water, f. 81
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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'The wonder of the creature and the wonder of the new, f. 371
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian
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A div-centaur (ghoul) [ball]; Pink face who looks like a woman (sa'âyat) [bottom], f. 300
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1203-1283(Author)
Persian