MS. Ouseley 225 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: A composite manuscript containing Zoroastrian texts, a treatise on physiognomy ascribed to Plato, poems by Asīr, a Pahlavi glossary, a translation of part of the Mahabharata, and a treatise on music.
ff. 1-72
Title: Zoroastrian texts.
Language(s): Persian
ff. 1-3a
Title: Persian paraphrase and commentary to the prayer Ashem vohū
ff. 3a-5b
Title: Persian paraphrase to Khurshīd niyāyish
ff. 5b, l. 3-6a, l.4
Title: Persian paraphrase to Yasnā
ff. 6a, ll. 4-11
Title: Prescript concerning the recitation of the prayer Yathā ahū vayryū
ff. 6a, l. 11-6b, l. 7
Title: Prescript concerning the ceremony of purification called Barashnūm
ff. 6b-15a
Title: Extracts from the Minū-i khirad, in Persian prose
ff. 15a-18b
Title: Description of the twenty-one books, which Zoroaster is said to have brought from heaven
ff. 18b, l. 3-20b, l. 2
Title: Ormazd explains to Zartusht why the day Khurdād (the 6th) of the month of Favardīn is a particularly distinguished day, enumerating those events which happened on it
ff. 20b, l. 3-21b
Title: Jamshīd deposited in one of his buildings seven things, where they remained till destroyed by Iskandar Rūmī; specification of them
ff. 22-56a
Title: ʻUlamā-i Islām
ff. 56b-72
Title: The romance of Anūshīrwān, in prose

References

Ethé 1942
ff. 75-86
Author and Attributed name: Plato افلاطون
Title: Risālah-ʼi manẓūm fī ʻilm-i qiyāfah min mujarrabāt Aflāṭūn al-Ḥakīm al-ʻĀlim
Title: رسالۀ منظوم فى علم قيافة من مجرّبات افلاطون الحكيم العالم
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1883
ff. 89-172
Author: Asīr Shahristānī, Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Mīrzā Muʼmin, fl. 17th century اسير شهرستانى، جلال الدين بن ميرزا مؤمن
Title: Selections from Asīr's poems
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1099
ff. 173-231
Author, Editor and Translator: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602 ابو الفضل بن مبارك
Title: Tarjamah-ʼi sabhā parba az Kitāb-i Mahābhārata
Title: ترجمۀ سبهاپرب از کتاب مهابهارت

Abū al-Faḍl's translation of the second Parva only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1312
ff. 232-251
Author: Anonymous
Title: A Pahlavī glossary

Extracted from chapter four of the Farhang-i Jahāngīrī.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1961
ff. 252-263
Author: Jānā Baygam جانا بيگم
Title: Risālah-ʼi Mūsīqī
Title: رسالۀ موسیقی
Language(s): Urdu

References

Ethé 2346

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 263

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

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Binding

History

Origin:

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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