Collections: Mingana - Islamic Arabic
A Persian manuscript from the eighteenth century, comprising three texts: a treatise on prosody wtih circular metre diagrams; an unidentified poem; and a text on poetic symbolism for Sufi poets ...
Persian text of a treatise on Sufi Islamic Spirituality (apparently), copied by a named Ottoman scribe. Gilded frontispiece and borders.
A Persian 'Life of the Prophet', dated to 1438 C.E., written by a named scribe. Contains illustrated title page and headpiece.
A Turkish manuscript from the nineteenth century, containing an autograph in Turkish naskhī. Headpieces with floral motifs and gold borderlines.
A very early fragmentay Qur'an, written in kufic script, dated to the eighth or ninth century. Contains notes and diacritical marks added by a later hand.
A very early fragmentary Qur'an, written in kufic script. Recently redated as possibly end seventh century, and as old as the oldest Yemeni manuscripts. The pages have been wrongly folded, ...
Luxuriously-illustrated Persian manuscript from the sixteenth century. The text of an Arabic poem with a Persian interlinear translation, prepared and presented with extraordinary care and elaboration, with decoration in gold, ...
A complete Qur'an from Persia, written in the 18th century. Illuminated headpieces and ornamented borderframes throughout.
An Ottoman manuscript from the seventeenth century. Contains an anonymous astrological calendar for 1645 C.E. Red rulings, decorative headings, illustrations and tables in red, green, yellow and blue ink.
