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Illuminations (paintings)

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Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Traité de la vanité des choses mondaines, 1471

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Identifier: MS 52
Abstract Jean Barthélemy (fl. 1446-1460), Traité de la vanité des choses mondaines (Treatise on the Vanity of Worldly Things). The treatise begins with a short prologue that explains the circumstances of the text’s composition: “A la louange et honneur de dieu et contempnement des chouses terriennes, cy conmence vng petit traictie de la vanite des choses mondaines, fait lan mille iiiic lx a l’instance et honnourable et deuote religieuse seur Jehanne Girad du tres tresreligieulx [sic] couuent de...
Dates: 1471

القرآن. al-Qurʼān, 1775-1850 C.E.; 1188-1266 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 70
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Complete copy of the Qurʼān; two pages at the front detached (f. 1-2).

Dates: 1775-1850 C.E.; 1188-1266 A.H.

القرآن. al-Qurʼān, 1700-1850 C.E.; 1111-1266 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 60
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Copy of most of Juzʼ 8 of the Qurʼān. The text begins with the last two words of verse 112 of al-Anʻām, and ends with the penultimate word of verse 78 of al-Aʻrāf.

Dates: 1700-1850 C.E.; 1111-1266 A.H.

القرآن. al-Qurʼān, 1754-1755 C.E.; 1168 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 52
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Nearly complete copy of the Qurʼān. The first two folios are missing, so the text begins with verse 17 of al-Baqarah and one folio is missing from the end, so the last complete sūrah is al-Māʻūn.

Dates: 1754-1755 C.E.; 1168 A.H.

دلائل الخيرات و شوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلوة على النبي المختار. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār, 1750-1850 C.E.; 1163-1266 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 62
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Lacunose copy of the prayer book. It is missing several leaves at the beginning. One loose bifolium of noncontiguous leaves, probably from the quire missing at the beginning, is laid in at the front. A few marginal notes, one in Persian.

Dates: 1750-1850 C.E.; 1163-1266 A.H.

دلائل الخيرات و شوارق الانوار في ذكر الصلوة على النبي المختار. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār, 1700-1799 C.E.; 1111-1214 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 201
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Small, lacunose copy of the prayer book with the text in a circular border; pages missing at the end with one loose bifolium laid in at the back.

Dates: 1700-1799 C.E.; 1111-1214 A.H.

سبحت الابرار. Subḥat al-abrār, 1529-1530 C.E.; 936 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 49
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Partial copy, nearly the first half is missing. Text begins with Ḥikayat-i ān shīr-i zan-i mūṣalī; two color illustrations.

Dates: Issued: 1529-1530 C.E.; 936 A.H.

شاهنامه. Shāhnāmah, 1849 C.E.; 1265 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 65
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Clear copy of the Shāhnāmah with two prefaces. Copy includes 32 illustrations and many blank spaces left in the text as if for illustrations.

Dates: 1849 C.E.; 1265 A.H.

هذا كتاب شرح مشارق. Hādhā kitāb sharḥ Mashāriq, 1753 C.E.; 1166 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 54
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Commentary on al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Saghānī's Mashāriq al-anwār. Table of contents included before the text.

Dates: 1753 C.E.; 1166 A.H.

وصيت. Vaṣiyyet , 1784 C.E.; 1198 A.H.

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Identifier: BV 55
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Treatise on the principle of the Islamic faith including divine attributes, Quranic revelation, the prophethood of Muḥammad, the nature of angels, resurrection and the last days, correct ablution and acts of worship, and moral exhortation. Table of contents at the beginning.

Dates: 1784 C.E.; 1198 A.H.