MS. Marsh 566 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 3 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Islamic Empire, World history, Persian language, Persian poetry, and Sufi poetry
1. ff. 1-16
Author: Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qazwīnī, Mīr 1481-1555 یحیی بن عبد اللطیف القزوینی
Title: Intikhāb az Lubb al-tawarīkh
Title: انتخاب از لب التواريخ

The fourth bāb of the third chapter only

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 94
2. ff. 18b-32
Author: Anonymous مؤلف مجهول
Title: Qāʻidah-ʼi zubān-i Fārsī
Title: فاعدۀ زبان فارسی

Outlines of a Persian grammar written in Turkish

Language(s): Persian, Turkish

References

Ethé 1714
3. ff. 39-277
Author: Burūsawī, Yaʻqūb ibn ʻAlī, -1524 or 1525 البروسوي، يعقوب بن علي، ت. 931 هـ
Title: Sharḥ-i Gulistān
Title: شرح گلستان
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 720

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 277 ff.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq, and European hands

History

Origin: Agra; 4th Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1034 [item 1 only] AH; 8th August 1625 [item 1 only] CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 38 (item 3), and Libri M.S. Incompacti in quarto &c, no. 34, 35 (item 1, 2)].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard,1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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