MS. Ouseley 225 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Collection
Contents
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
ff. 3a-5b
ff. 5b, l. 3-6a, l.4
Title: Persian paraphrase to Yasnā
ff. 6a, ll. 4-11
ff. 6a, l. 11-6b, l. 7
ff. 6b-15a
ff. 15a-18b
ff. 18b, l. 3-20b, l. 2
ff. 20b, l. 3-21b
ff. 22-56a
Title: ʻUlamā-i Islām
ff. 56b-72
References
ff. 75-86
Language(s): Persian
References
ff. 173-231
Abū al-Faḍl's translation of the second Parva only.
Language(s): Persian
References
ff. 232-251
Title: A Pahlavī glossary
Extracted from chapter four of the Farhang-i Jahāngīrī.
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 263
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
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
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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