MS. Elliott 280 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A composite manuscript containing works on politics, Persian poetry, and the Afghani language.

ff. 1-78
Author: Niẓām al-Mulk, 1018-1092 نظام الملك
Title: Naṣāʼiḥ-i Niẓām al-Mulk
Title: نصائح نظام الملك
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1427
ff. 81-131
Author: S̲anāʼī Mashhadī, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1587 Khwājah Ḥusayn Thanāʼī Mashhadī خواجه حسين ثنائى مشهدى
Title: Dīvān-i S̲anāʼī
Title: Dīvān-i Thanāʼī
Title: ديوان ثنائى

Extracts only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1047
ff. 133b-177
Author: Muḥammad Mīr Riḍawī Mashhadī محمد مير رضوى مشهدى
Title: Kifayat al-mubtadī
Title: كفاية المبتدى

A treatise on the Afghani language.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1762

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 177

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Dawlat Singh.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: Shāhjahānābād; 1198 AH; 1783 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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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