MS. Ouseley Add. 4 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Add. Collection
Contents
A composite manuscript containing works on poetry, sufism, rhyme, lexicography, and rhetoric.
ff. 1-24
Title: Ḥaqāʼiq al-Ḥadāʼiq
Title: حقائق الحدائق
Based on the Ḥadāʼiq al-siḥr fī daqāʼiq al-shiʻr of Rashīd al-Dīn Waṭwāṭ.
Language(s): Persian
References
ff. 25-39
Title: Lavāʼiḥ
Title: لوائح
Title: لوائح در بيان معانى و معارف
Language(s): Persian
References
ff. 41-49
Title: Risālah dar ʻilm-i qavāfī
Title: رساله در علم قوافى
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 79
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: Undated.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley, d. 1844
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1858.
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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