MS. Marsh 566 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection
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
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
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
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
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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