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LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1575 Persian

Recognized as one of the world's great autobiographical memoirs, the Bāburnāmah is the story of Zahīr al-Dīn Muhammad Bābur, who was born in 1483 and ruled from the age of …


LC: Library of Congress · 1569 Persian

Persian manuscript of uncertain title or and author; does not appear to be the Timurnanah of Hātifī.


LC: Library of Congress · 1564 Persian

The battle of Mazandaran drawn from the "Hamzahnamah" (Book of Hamzah), sponsored by the Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605), India. Written in the Nasta'liq script. Approximately 50 painters worked on …


LC: Library of Congress · 1560 Persian

Verses on tragic love drawn from the love story of Laylah and Majnun, written in the black Nasta'liq script by calligrapher Shah Muhammad al-Mashhadi in 16th Cent. Between the diagonal …


LC: Library of Congress · 1547 Persian

Manuscript. Persian. Each work has separate title ; title of first work fol. 1b; title for second work, fol. 82a. Each section has different date: Makhzan al-asrār dated 28 Rajab …


LC: Library of Congress · 1520 Arabic

This manuscript in Persian is an untitled Sufi text on meditation containing both poetry and prose. It was completed in early 1520, probably in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) or Mashhad (present-day …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1519 Latin

The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1515 Latin

Ja'far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī (787--886), known as Abū Ma'shar (and as Albumasar in the Latin West), was one of the most-renowned astronomers of the Middle Ages. His fame in Europe …


LC: Library of Congress · 1513 Latin

Imprint from colophon. Dated at end: Dat. in Vrbe nostra Olisipone 8. idus Iunias anno D[omi]ni M.D.XIII. Signatures: A⁶. Arms of Manuel I on t.p. Capital space with printed guide …


LC: Library of Congress · 1508 German

Translation of: Ad Julium II epistola de provinciis et civitatibus orientalibus christianae fidei per eum subactis. Imprint from Proctor. Signatures: pi⁴. Weller (Repertorium) 426 Proctor, R. Index to the early …