MS. Ouseley 158 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 12 works by 9 authors on the subjects of Iran, Music, Sufism, Epic literature, Bharata, Hinduism, Ragas, Arabic language, and Persian poetry
1. ff. 1-18
Author: Mīrzā Jān Shīrāzī ميرزا جان شيرازي
Title: A Topographical sketch of Shiraz and Isfahan
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 428
no. 428
2. ff. 20-75
Author: Nāyak Bakhshū نايك بخشو
Title: Hazār Dhurpad-i Nāyak Bakhshū
Title: هزار دهرپد نایک بخشو
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1846
no. 1846
3. ff. 77b-89a
Author: Suhrawardī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, 1145-1234 السهروردي، عمر بن محمد، 539-632 هـ
Title: ʻAwārif al-maʻārif
Title: عوارف المعارف

Bāb 22-25 only, on music (samāʻ) etc.

Not in Farmer. Identified 1975

Language(s): Persian

References

GAL I 440
EA 188
4. ff. 91b-112b
Author: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602 ابو الفضل بن مبارك علامی
Title: Abū al-Faz̤l's preface to the translation of the Mahābhārata
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1311
no. 1311
5. ff. 115-120
Title: A small collection of letters and poetry
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1404
no. 1404
6. ff. 123-130
Author: ʻIwaḍ Muḥammad Kāmil Khānī عوض محمد كاملخانمي
Title: Risalah dar ʻamal-i bayn va thāth-i rāg′hā-yi Hindī
Title: رساله در عمل بين و تهاته راگهای هندی
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1848
no. 1848
7. ff. 133b-136b
Author: ʻIwaḍ Muḥammad Kāmil Khānī عوض محمد كاملخانمي
Title: Risālah-ʼi Kāmil Khānī
Title: رسالۀ کامل خانی
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1849 [1]
no. 1849
8. ff. 137a-139b
Title: Asāmīʼ sur
Title: اسامئ سر
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1849 [2]
no. 1849
9. ff. 141b-151a
Author: Ẓahīr ibn Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd al-ʻAlawī ظهير بن محمود بن مسعود العلوي
Title: Nuskhah-ʼi Zubdah fī ʻilm al-ṣarf
Title: نسخۀ زبدة في علم الصرف
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1657
no. 1657
10. ff. 151b-154
Author: Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, d. 1078? الجرجاني، عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن، ت. 471 هـ
Title: Kitāb al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah
Title: Miʼat ʻāmil
Title: كتاب العوامل المائة
Title: مائة عامل

Translated into Persian verse (anon.) with the title Miʼat ʻāmil

Language(s): Persian

References

GAL I 287
Ethé 1658
no. 1658
11. ff. 159-174
Author: Anonymous
Title: Nuskhah-ʼi Mīzān dar ʻilm-i ṣarf
Title: نسخۀ میزان در علم صرف
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1669
no. 1669
12. ff. 177-201
Author: Qudsī قدسي
Title: A collection of tarkīb′bands and tarjīʻ′bands by Qudsī
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1111
no. 1111

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 201 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq and Shikastah

History

Origin: n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir William Ouseley, d. 1842.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

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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