Browne 1427. The Kulliyyat, or complete works of Sa'di. Persian.
Paper. 285 x 180mm. 346 fos.
Clear Indian Nasta'liq, rubricated. 12 lines in body and c.25 in margin of each page. Illuminated headpieces on fos 1v, 56v, 131v, 281v and 301v.
19th century gold and blind tooled leather binding.
JANUENSIS SARMONES
Vellum and paper, 11.5 x 9, ff. 176, double columns of 43 and 56, etc.
lines. 15th cent. in a small clear hand: probably written in England.
Browne 1426. The Tuti-nama by Diya'u'd-Din Nakhshabi. Persian.
Paper. 245 x 170mm. 198 fos. Collation: 1 flyleaf, 18-38, 46, 510, 66, 710 ... 226, 2310, 246, 258. Has suffered from damp.
Nasta'liq, rubricated, within red borders. 16 lines to a page.
Gold tooled brown/red goatskin Islamic binding.
Browne 1425. The Tuti-nama by Diya'u'd-Din Nakhshabi. Persian.
Paper. 230 x 160mm. 247 fos. Collation: 2 flyleaves, 18-308, 318 (wants 8), 2 flyleaves.
Blind tooled brown/red goatskin Islamic binding.
The Tuti-nama by Diya'u'd-Din Nakhshabi, poor Nasta'liq, rubricated.
MEDICA (FLEMISH)
Paper, 11.2 x 8, ff. 106 + 4, double columns of 42 lines, two volumes.
15th cent., clear ugly hands, in Flemish.
Donor, T. C. S.
Browne 1424. The Diwan of Amir Shahi. Persian.
Paper. 235 x 160 mm. 68 fos.
Gold tooled calfskin binding.
The Diwan of Amir Shahi, transcribed in a beautiful Nasta'liq by Muhammad Qasim b. Hajji Husayn b. Hajji Akhi b. Shaykh 'Attar of Qazwin in Sha'ban, 908 / Jan. 1503 or Sha'ban, 980 / Dec. 1572. 9 lines to a page within gold and blue borders. Illuminated headpiece on fo.1v.
Browne 1423. The Diwan of Hafiz. Persian.
Paper. 215 x 140 mm. 206 fos.
Half-leather binding of calfskin and marbled paper.
The Diwan of Hafiz, fair Nasta'liq, dated 27 Sha'ban 1171 / 6 May 1758.
Inscription on fo.1r 'Presented to the Library of Saint John's College, Cambridge, by Nat: Atcheson of London, 30th September 1816.'
Browne 1422. The Diwan of 'Urfi. Persian.
Paper. 190 x 100mm. 306 fos.
Gold tooled calfskin binding.
The Diwan of 'Urfi, good Nasta'liq, dated 1024/1615, concluding with 'Urfi's dying behests.
Inscription on fo.1r 'Presented to the Library of Saint John's College, Cambridge by Nat. Atcheson of London 30th September 1816.'
MS A.19 f.48v
Browne 1408 (formerly K.3). Turkish poems by Mawlana Ahmad; Epistolary models in Turkish and Persian.
Paper. 145 x 110mm. 85 fos. Collation: 110 (wants 10), 210-810, 98 (wants 7 and 8).
Rubricated. 13 lines to a page.
Blind tooled black goatskin Islamic binding with flap.
1. Turkish poems by Mawlana Ahmad.