MS. Ouseley 387 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Soul, Philosophy, Persian poetry, Mogul Empire, India, and Tales

1. ff. 1-5
Author: Anonymous
Title: Fī maʻrifat al-nafs
Title: في معرفة النفس
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1423
2. ff. 7-17
Author: Bābā Afz̤al, 13th cent. بابا افضل Bābā Afḍal, Afḍal al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāshī
Title: A collection of ethical and metaphysical treatises
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1445
3. ff. 19-22
Author: Saʻdī سعدي الشيرازي، عبد الله بن مشرف، ت. 690 هـ
Title: Khabīthāt-i Saʻdī
Title: خبيثات سعدى
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 747
4. ff. 24-35
Author: Sayyid Amīn al-Dīn Khān al-Ḥusaynī سيد أمين الدين خان الحسيني
Title: Maʻlūmāt al-āfāq
Title: معلومات الآفاق
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1332
5. ff. 37-62
Author: Anonymous
Title: A history of Bangālah
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 280
6. ff. 64-81
Title: A collection of letters and documents relating to the reign of Awrangzīb
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 255
7. ff. 83-107
Author: Suhrāb Bīk سهراب بيك
Title: A poetic miscellany
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1210
8. ff. 109-120
Author: Anonymous
Title: A short account of the war and negotiations between Muḥammad Shāh and Nādir Shāh in 1739
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 263
9. ff. 122-147
Author: Fayz̤ī, Abū al-Fayz̤ ibn Mubārak, 1547 or 8-1595 فيضي، فيض الله بن المبارك، 954-1004 هـ
Title: Nal va Daman
Title: نل و دمن
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1061

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 147 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

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Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: 11th cent. AH; 17th cent. CE

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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