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Following from my last post about the recently digitised copy of Shah Tahmasp’s Khamsah of Nizami, we are pleased to announce that the British Library has now completed digitisation of another of its most famous and important Persian illustrated manuscripts: Add.18113, containing three of the five poems from the Khamsah of Khvaju Kirmani (1290-1349?). Partially modelled on Nizami’s earlier work, Khvaju drew extensively on traditional Iranian folklore. This manuscript, notable for its early calligraphy and illustrations, contains the story of Humay and Humayun, the Kamālnāmah (‘Book of Perfection’) and the Rawżat al-anvār (‘Garden of Lights’).

Draft of a document about free-access reproductions of Persian manuscripts in various libraries. The document is - of course - uncomplete and imperfect. Every remark is much wellcome

A rare illustrated history of Genghis Khan and his descendants down to Shaybani Khan. The author of the work, which is also known as Tavārīkh-i guzīda, is unknown, although it appears that the original text of the work was originally written in 908 AH (1502-03 CE). The current manuscript is dated on f 149 as 970 AH (1563 CE).