the East, is quite equal to the finest MS. as a specimen of calligraphy; while in correctness of text, it is superior to any. The beauty and distinctness of the characters are seen to double advantage on the stout creamy paper used by General Briggs for his own copy. 9897 FIRUZ BIN KAWUs (Mulla). : George-Namah, a Poem on the successes of the British Arms in India, 3 vols. 8vo. lithographed portrait, bd. 208 Bombay, 1837 1862 9898 FORBES, Persian Grammar, with Vocabulary, large 8vo. (pub. at 128 6d) cloth, 108 9899 GĦANIL: Poems of Mohammed Tahir Ghanii of Kashmir, in Persian, sm. 8vo. elegantly written MS. within gold and coloured lines with gold headings, native red morocco, £2. Kashmir, Mohammed Ismail, A. H. 1114 A very rare Diwan, composed about forty years before the date of transcription. 9900 GHAZZALI.jellule has: KIMIYAI SAADAT: The Al كيميا سعادت للغزالي chemy of Happiness, by the Imam Abù Muhammad GHAZZALI at-Tusi (translated from his original Arabic), the 4 parts in 1 vol. folio, 810 pp. elegantly written in a very fine Nastalik, with illuminated 'Unwans, in the native binding, £5. A. H. 1084-86 This famous ethical work is very scarce when complete, separate parts of it, or the abridgment which exists, being more frequently met with. 9901 GLADWIN'S Dissertations on the Rhetoric, Prosody, and Rhyme of the Persians, 4to. hf. bd. 78 6d 9902 9903 the same, 4to. bds. 5s Persian Moonshee, roy. 4to. including Calcutta, 1798 1801 Grammar and 1801 Poems : گلدسته نشاط فارسي و هندي .GULDASTAH-I NISHAT 9904 selected from various authors, in Persian and Hindi (by Mannu Làl Lahori), roy. 4to. sd. 20s Calcutta, 1836 9905 GULISTAN-I RAHMAT. The Life of Hafiz ul Mulk, Hafiz Rehmut Khan. Written by his Son Nuwab Must'ujab Khan Bahadar; and entitled Gulistan-i-Rehmut, from the Persian, by Elliott, Svo. 48 1834 Universal History by KH'ANDAMÍR the son of Mírkh'and, in Persian, Vol. I parts 3, 4, This portion of the work contains the history of the times between the birth of Muhammad and the rise of the Ommayad Khalifs about A.D. 740. But at the beginning a compendium of the earlier history is added; and on the margins, there is written a continuation of the annals of Persia down to A. H. 1081. 9907 HABIB US SIYAR.: Universal History, by the celebrated historian Kh'andamir, Vols. II and III, beginning with the Imáms and coming down to the Timuriad dynasty, A.H. 913, 2 stout vols. sm. folio, a little wormed, but beautifully written in a minute hand, Indian binding, £5. Sec. XVI 9908 HABIB US-SIYAR.alalla: Khan damir's General History, in Persian, edited by Muhammad Hosein Kashani, 3 vols. in 2, small folio, neatly lithographed like a MS. in clear and elegant characters, sd. £5. 9909 HAFIZ. 9910 حافظ Bombay, 1857 Poems, in Persian, smallest folio, (8vo.) exquisite Persian MS. most delicately written on a ground of powdered gold, and within gold borders, five lines in the preface and the last page of the Rubaiyat deficient, calf, £2, 16s About A.D. 1600 il: Poems of Hafiz, in Persian, 8vo. elegantly written MS. with illuminated 'Unwans, in Oriental red morocco binding, £2. 12s 6d A. H. 1082 9911 HAFIZ.: Poems of Hafiz, with an Account of his Life and Writings, entirely in Persian, sm. folio, old citron MOROCCO, fine copy, 36s Calcutta, 1791 "It was printed at Calcutta in 1791; this is the best edition, but rare.”Sprenger. 'I have not been able to meet with a copy even in India.”—Dr. Clarke. 9912 9913 9) 14 9915 bill: Diwan of Hafiz, 8vo. bds. 7s 6d Calcutta, 1826 il: Poems of Hafiz, Persian, 8vo. lithographed on rose-coloured paper, fine copy, calf extra, gilt edges, 368 Printed by order of Mohammed Shah of Persia (Tehrán) A. H. 1259 il: Diwan, Persisch und Deutsch, von RosenWien, 1858 zweig-Schwanau, 3 vols. 8vo. sd. 16s Selections from his Poems, translated from the Persian by Herman Bicknell, 4to. illuminated frontispiece, title-page and borders, a beautifully printed volume in gilt cloth, 36s 1875 HAFT KULZUM, or the Seven : فرهنگ رفعة مسمي بهفت كلزم 9916 9917 Seas, a Dictionary and Grammar of the Persian Language, by the same, 6 vols. large folio, (without 1st volume) one volume stained, a bargain, neat binding, £2. 10s 1226-27 Priced, 1830, Parbury, £30.; 1833, Allen, £30.; 1834, Thorpe, £24.; 1836, Thorpe, a fine presentation copy, £35.; 1841, Madden, £15. 158; 1859, Maisonneuve, 250 fr. This splendid book was printed at the royal press in the city of Lucknow. The first six volumes contain the Dictionary, the seventh the Grammar. Dr. Sprenger examined the MSS. at Lucknow, and speaks as follows of the remaining copies of the above :-"At the end of the hall there are bags full of books completely destroyed by white ants. Even new books have not been spared by these destructive insects; nearly the whole of the edition of the Taj al Loghat ' has been destroyed, and most of the remaining copies of the 'Haft Quizum' have had the same fate." 9918 HAMMER, Geschichte der schönen Redekünste Persiens, mit Blüthenlese aus 200 Dichter, 4to. portrait and plate of Music, calf, 158 Wien, 1818 Romance of Hatim the : كتاب تاريخ حاتم طابي .HATIM TATY 9919 Generous, in Persian, small 4to. neatly written MS. gilt binding, 208 About 1800 This is not the current and common abridgment of the story, but the full text. 9920 HATIM TAI, the Adventures of, a Romance, translated from the Persian, by Duncan Forbes, M.A., 4to. 12s 6d 9921 HAZIN. 1830 Poetical Works of Sheikh 'Ali : كليات ديوان علي حزين Hazin, in Persian, roy. 8vo. illuminated MS. beautifully written in the Nastalic character, richly ornamented with gold, and several 'Unwans, the binding exquisitely painted and lackered, £5. A. H. 1234 Life of Sheikh Mohammed: تاريخ احوال شيخ علي حزين HAZIN 1922. 9922* Ali Hazin, written by himself, edited from two Persian MSS. and noted with their various Readings, by F. C. Belfour, 8vo. 88 6d 1831 -- Life of Sheikh Mohammed, written by himself, translated and illustrated with Notes explanatory of the History, Poetry, Geography, etc. by F. C. Belfour, M.A. 8vo. 88 6d 1830 9923 HOPKINS'S Vocabulary, Persian - Arabic - English, abridged from Richardson and Wilkins, large 8vo. 613 pp. double cols. bds. 158 1810 992 HUSAIN ALI KHAN. History of Hyder Naik, otherwise styled Nawaub Hyder Ali, by Meer Hussein Ali Khan Kirmani. Translated from an Original Persian MS. by Col. Miles, 8vo. 9925 108 1842 -- History of the Reign of Tipu Sultan, being a Continuation. of the Neshani Hyduri. Written by Mir Hussein Ali Khan Kirmani; transl. by Colonel W. Miles, Svo. 88 6d 9926 IQBÁLNÁMEH-I JEHÁNGIRI, OF MOTAMAD KHAN. J 1814 نامه اقبال .edited by Lees, Persian, Sro : جهانگيري تصنيف معتمد خان the : نفحات الانس من حضرات القدس JAMI'S Nafahat as 9927 hf. calf neat, 98 Calcutta, 1865 Lives of the Soofis, in Persian, with Life, by Lees, thick 8vo. 740 pp. hf. morocco gilt, 18s Calcutta, 1859 Salaman and Absal, an Allegorical : سلامان و ابسال Romance, edited in Persian by Falconer, 4to. £1. 1850 Salaman and Absal, an Allegory, translated from the Persian (by E. Fitzgerald), 8vo. cloth, rare 1856 9928 9929 9930 Persian, edited by Falconer, 4to. 10s 6d ->: Tuhfat ul Ahrár, the Gift of the Noble, in 1848 Jami's name, as one of the great ornaments of Persian poetical literature, is enough to recommend the study of his poems, Yusuf wa Zulaikha, a romantic : يوسف و زلیخا ملا جامی JAMI 9931 9932 9933 Poem, in Persian, Svo. fine illuminated MS. with 19 Miniatures, Romantic History of Joseph and : یوسف و زلیخا انشاي : Zuleikha, and the Elegant Compositions, by Jami, Persian, royal 8vo. hf. cf. nt. 15s مجمع الحكايات فارسي JAMI UL HIKAYAT 9934 1286 A collection of Stories, in Persian, with an inscription on the fly-leaf, which The title Jami ul Hikayat is only factitious: the work may not be the celebrated collection of that name. : كتاب المثنوي فارسي مع شرحه تركي JELALUDDIN RUMI 9935 9935* 9936 9936* 9937 the great Sufi poem, called the MESNEWI, in Persian, with a ,another edition of the Mesneri : المثنوي فارسي و تركي in Persian, with a Turkish verse-translation in parallel columns, In the former edition the lines of the text have to be picked out here and there in the midst of the very elaborate commentary. In the later, the book is printed with remarkable distinctness and elegance in quadruple columns, so that the Turkish metrical translation stands side by side and line for line with the Persian. : MASNAVI, the great Sufi Poem of Jelalu dDin Rumi, in Persian, sm. folio, MS. very neatly written in the Nastalik character, the last leaf mended, bd. £7. 158 A. H. 880 MSS. of this important work are rarely met with of such an age as the present. S: MASNAVI, impl. 8vo. illuminated MS. exquisitely written in small Nastalik characters, within rich borders and ornaments of gold, old red morocco gilt, £7. 7s about 1580-1600 The MESNEWI, or great Sufi : المثنوي المعنوي المولوي of the Maulavi Rumi, in Persian, 6 parts in 1 vol. folio, fine 9938 JOHNSON'S (F.) Dictionary, Persian, Arabic and English, thick royal 4to. 1420 pp. cloth, £2. 16s 1852 9939 JONĖS (Wm) Persian Grammar, 8th edition, by Lee, 4to. bd. 98 1823 9910 KANZU D-DACAIC.: Digest of the Mohammedan Law according to the Doctrines of the Hanefite sect, translated from the Arabic of Háfiz ud-Din al-Nasafi, by Nasru 'lláh bin Muhammad al-Karmáni, sm. folio, Persian MS. with several marginal glosses, native binding, from Mr. Morley's library, A. H. 1103 9941 KASHF-U 'L-LUGHAT. AS: The Explanation of Words, by 'Abd ur Rahman ibn Ahmad Sur, sm. folio, fair MS. of 462 leaves, hf. calf gilt, £2. 10s A. H. 1193 258 A celebrated Dictionary of Persian and Arabic words, explained in Persian. It is alphabetically arranged, and includes many proper names which one might not know where to trace although frequently met with in reading. 9912 KATIBI.: Poems (Odes, Panegyrics, and Quatrains) in Persian, 8vo. elegant MS. hf. calf gilt, £2. 2s A. H. 984 A poet whose works are rare. He flourished in the first half of the fifteenth century. 9913 KELIM. 9914 -The Odes and Quat : دیوان کلیم (غزلیات و رباعیات rains of Kelim, Shah Jehan's court poet, in Persian, 8vo. MS. on 288 pp. Indian binding, 258 A. II. 1103 انتخاب احوال خلفا عباسیه از مجلد ثاني 00H KHANDAMIR حبيب السير :: Chronicles of the Abbaside Khalifs, from the Habib us-Siyar, in Persian, Svo. neatly written MS. about 350 pp. gilt native binding, 30s A. H. 1150 9945 KITAB-I-YAMINI; Historical Memoirs of Early Conquerors of Hindustan, and Founders of the Ghaznavide Dynasty, transl. from the Persian, by the Rev. J. Reynolds, 8vo. 128 9016 KUROGHLU. Popular Poetry of Persia, as found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou, the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Persia; and in the Songs of the People inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea. Orally collected and translated by A. 1858 1812 Chodzko, Svo. 12s 6d 9947 LAZZAT UN-NISA: : The Ladies' Delight, a poem, in Persian, Svo. well-written MS. with illuminated Unwan and several Miniatures of female Beauties, including two which represent co-operation, Indian binding, £5. A. H. 1147 Libellus egregius in quo curiose disseritur de pulchritudine fœminarum, præsertim de partibus earum secretis modisque augendi in coitu voluptatem. 9918 LUMSDEN'S (M.) Persian Grammar; comprising the Elements of Arabic inflection: together with observations on the structure of either Language, considered with reference to the principles of General Grammar, 2 vols. sm. folio, old calf neat, Ārms in gold on sides, 35s Calcutta, 1810 99 18 MAASIRI ALAMGIRI. History of the first ten years of Alemgeer, by Mohammed Sakee, Persian and English, by Vansittart, Calcutta, 1785-FRANCIS (Philip) Original Minutes on the settlement of the Revenues of Bengal, 1782-2 vols. in 1, 4to. hf. bd. 12s 1785-82 |