MS. Elliott 167 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Selections from the dīwāns of 12 Persian poets, including the poetess Nihānī.

Fols. 1-25.
Author: Saʻdī سعدي الشيرازي، عبد الله بن مشرف، ت. 690 هـ
Title: Dīvān-i Saʻdī [selections only]
Title: ديوان سعدى
Title: Dīwān-i Saʻdī

Qaṣīdahs and Ghazals only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 695
Fols. 25b-34b.
Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325 امير خسرو دهلوى
Title: [Ghazalīyāt]
Title: [غزليات]
Incipit: اى زخيال الخ
Language(s): Persian

A very small selection only.

References

Ethé 765
Fols. 35-44.
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى
Title: [Ghazalīyāt]
Title: [غزليات]
Incipit: ترا ای نازنین هر سوز دلها صد سپه بادا الخ

A short selection only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 956
Fols. 44a-53b
Author: Ḥayratī Tūnī, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad, -1553 or 1554 محمد تقى الدين حيرتى تونى
Title: Intikhāb-i ashʻār-i Ḥayratī
Title: انتخاب اشعار حيرتى

A selection of poetical works.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1031
Fols. 53b-60a
Author: Amīr Maqbūl امير مقبول
Title: Selections from the Dīwān of Amīr Maqbūl
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 979
Fols. 60b-75a
Author: Hilālī, Badr al-Dīn, -1528 or 1529 بدر الدين هلالى استرآبادى
Title: [Selected Ghazals]
Title: [غزليات]
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1020
Fols. 75a-81b
Author: Riyāz̤ī Samarqandī, Muḥammad, -1479 or 1480 رياضى سمرقندى
Title: [Selected Ghazals]
Title: [غزليات]
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 891
Fols. 82-91
Author: Amīr Humāyūn Asfarāʼīnī امير همايون اسفرآئينى
Title: Intikhāb-i ashʻār-i Humāyūn
Title: انتخاب اشعار همايون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 978
Fols. 91a-101a
Author: Bābā Fighānī [Faghānī] Shīrāzī, -1519 بابا فغانى شيرازى
Title: Intikhāb-i ashʻār-i Fighānī
Title: انتخاب اشعار فغانى

Contains some ghazals.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 994
Fols. 101b-108b
Author: Fidāʼī, d. 1521 فدائى
Author: Kamāl al-Dīn Bannāʼī, d. 1512-1513 Ḥālī كمال الدين بنّائى حالى
Title: Intikhāb-i ashʻār-i Fidāʼī va Bannāʼī
Title: انتخاب اشعار فدائى و بنّائى
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 988
Fols. 109a-121b
Author: Nihānī نهانى
Title: Selections from Nihānī's Ghazals
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 980
Fols. 122a-151b
Author: Ahlī Khurāsānī, -1527 or 1528 Ahlī Turshīzī اهلى خراسانى اهلى ترشيزى
Title: Selections from the Dīwān of Ahlī Khurāsānī
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1018

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 151 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

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Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley.

The collections of John Bardoe Elliott.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by J.B. Elliott, in 1859.

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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JISC

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