MS. Ouseley Add. 18 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Hadith, Aphorisms and apothegms, and Caliphs

1. fols. 1-7r
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492
Title: Tarjumah-yi arbaʻīn ḥadīth-i manẓūm
Title: Chihil ḥadīth-i nabī

Forty Arabic traditions with Persian introduction and Persian paraphrase [defective; lacuna of 2 fols.

Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

GAL II 207
[Ethé 1990]
2. ff. 8v-21r
Author: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661
Title: Miʼah Kalimah

With a Persian verse translation. With 74 sentences only, not that of Vaṭvāṭ, Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1114-ca. 1182

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 43
[Ethé 1433]

Physical Description

Form: codex
7 fols. 14 ff.

History

Origin: 1568 CE 1568 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley, d. 1844

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1858.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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