VISHNU PURANA Author: Untraceable Language: Persian Pages: 319 Lines: 15 Script: Nastaliq Date:1800 CE Courtesy: Noor International Microfilm Center Remarks:Copy of selections from the Visṇ ̣u Purānạ translated into Persian. Eleven images including avatārs of Visṇ ụ . The Vishnu Purana stands among the revered group of eighteen Mahapuranas, an extensive collection of ancient and medieval texts within Hinduism. As a significant Pancharatra scripture in the Vaishnavism literature corpus, it holds profound importance and wisdom for followers of this tradition.
KHAMSA OF NIZAMI Author Name: Hakim Jamaluddin Abu Muhammad Ilyas known as Nizami Date of Calligraphy: 1593-1595 C.E. Script: Nastaliq Pages: 1350 Lines: 19 Language: Persian Courtesy: Noor International Microfilm Center Decorations: One double and 37 single paintings; Contains six headings and eight shamsas Remarks: The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami British Library, Or. 12208 is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or \"five poems\" of Nizami Ganjavi, a 12th- century Persian poet, which was created for the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the early 1590s by a number of artists and a single scribe working at the Mughal court, very probably in Akbar's new capital of Lahore in North India, now in Pakistan. Apart from the fine calligraphy of the Persian text, the manuscript is celebrated for over forty Mughal miniatures of the highest quality throughout the text; five of these are detached from the main manuscript and are in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore as Walters Art Museum MS W.613.[1] The manuscript has been described as \"one of the finest examples of the Indo-Muslim arts of the book\",[2] and \"one of the most perfect of the de luxe type of manuscripts made for Akbar.
MAJMAUL BAHRAIN Author Name:Mohammad Dara Shikoh bin Shahjahan Badshah Ghazi Date of Inscription: 1065 AH Language: Persian Courtesy: Noor International Microfilm Center Remarks: This short volume was written by Muhammad Dara Shikoh (1615- 1659), an author and translator of the 17th century, who published the book in 1655 for the purpose of boosting intellectual and spiritual agreement and proximity and peaceful coexistence between the followers of Hinduism and Islam so that Muslims and Hindus across the Indian subcontinent might live peacefully in a calm environment and freely express their religious beliefs. He also wished to eliminate Muslims' doubts about common Hindu practices that bordered on paganism so that both groups could be recognized as monotheistic nations. Dara Shikoh was a Sunni Muslim who believed in the Hanafi sect and, in terms of Sufist schools of thought, belonged to the Qadiriyya Tariqa. He was a very open-minded person from a mystical perspective and intended to find a common ground between Hinduism and Islam to make the believers of the two religions close and kind toward each other and clear their hearts of any hatred in a way that they could describe believers in God in a similar manner. He was forty-two years old when he wrote the book
SHAHNAMAH FIRDAUSI Author Name: Hakim Abul Qasim Fidausi Tusi Pages:1170 Miniature:90 Date: early 16 CE Courtesy: Noor International Microfilm Center Remarks: Although the: Shahnama is the national epic of Iran, its popular text with fascinating mythical rulers was also copied in India. While no illustrated Shahnama text produced for the Imperial Mughal court has survived, there are a small number of seventeenth century illustrated Mughal copies known, which were produced for Mughal noblemen. One of these is housed in the British library (Add.MS 5600) which was prepared in the studio of the great noble 'Abd al-Rahim the khan-i-khanan around 1616. This Contains 90 over painted miniatures by attributed Mughal artists. Illustrations
JAMI AND THE NAFAḤĀT AL-UNS Author Name: Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jām Pages: 849 Miniature: 17 miniature Script: Nastaʿlīq, copied by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ʻAnbarīn Qalam Akbarshāhī s DATE: Agra, Regnal year 49 (1604-1605). Courtesy: Noor International Microfilm Center Remarks: The Nafaḥāt al-uns consists of 567 biographies of Muslim saints and mystics, dating from the 8th to the 15th century, followed by a section on Sufi poets and ending with accounts of female saints. The author was the celebrated Persian poet, scholar and Sufi, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī who died at Herat in 1492. An imperial copy This manuscript was copied at the Mughal capital Agra in 1604–1605 by the court scribe ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, known as ʻAnbarīn Qalam ('Amber-pen'), for the emperor Akbar. It contains seventeen paintings out of an original thirty, many of them attributed to well-known artists of the imperial court.
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