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A collection of 12 works by 11 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry, riddles, and sufism.

ff. 1b-75b
Author: Qazvīnī, Āṣaf Khān, 1551-1612 آصف خان جعفر
Title: Khusraw va Shīrīn
Title: خسرو و شيرين
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1069
ff. 76b-134b
Author: Nīshāpūrī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, -1499 حسين بن محمد نيشاپوری
Title: Risālah fī al-mu‘ammā
Title: رسالة في المعما
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1354
ff. 135a-139b
Author: Anonymous
Title: A short collection of riddles
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1375
ff. 140-181
Author: Awḥadī, Rukn al-Dīn, 1271 or 2-1337 or 8 اوحدى، ركن الدين
Title: Jām-i jam
Title: جام جم
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 789
ff. 182b-185
Author: ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Afz̤al Muḥammad عبد الصمد بن افضل محمد
Title: Dībāchah-ʼi ʻAbd al-Ṣamad
Title: ديباچۀ عبد الصمد
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1280
ff. 186b-251a
Author: Asīr Shahristānī, Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Mīrzā Muʼmin, active 17th century مرزا جلال اسير بن مرزا مؤمن اصفهانى
Title: Qaṣāʼid-i Mirzā Jalāl-i Asīr
Title: قصائد مرزا جلال اسير
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1100
ff. 252b-270a
Author: Muḥammad Saʻīd Iʻjāz Akbarābādī, fl. 17th century محمد سعيد اعجاز اكبرآبادى
Title: Dīvān-i Iʻjāz
Title: ديوان اعجاز
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1141
ff. 271b-294b
Author: Ḥājī Muḥammad Aslam, d. c. 1130/1718 Sālim حاجي محمد اسلم سالم
Title: Mathnawī-ʼi Sālim
Title: مثنوئ سالم
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1166
ff. 295b-302b
Author: Salīm Ṭihrānī, Muḥammad Qulī, -1647? محمد قلى سليم طهرانى
Title: Qaz̤ā va qadar
Title: قضا و قدر
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1113
ff. 303b-307
Author: Ḥājī Muḥammad Aslam, d. c. 1130/1718 Sālim حاجي محمد اسلم سالم
Title: Taʻrīf-i Shāh Aʻẓam
Title: تعريف شاه اعظم
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1167
ff. 307b-324b
Author: Nawʻī Khabūshānī, Muḥammad Riz̤ā, -1609 or 1610 محمد رضا نوعى خبوشانى
Title: Sūz u Gudāz
Title: سوز و گداز
Incipit: الهى خنده‌ام را نالگى ده سر شكم را جكر پركاله ده
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1065
ff. 325b-338b
Author: Vaḥshī Bāfqī, d. 1583 وحشى بافقى
Title: Farhād va-Shīrīn
Title: فرهاد وشيرين
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1040

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 338
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Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Mullā ʻAbd Allāh.

Binding

History

Origin: 1097 AH; 1686 CE

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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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