MS. Ouseley 16 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A copy of Zīnat al-tawārīkh, a collection of metrical chronograms, fixing the dates of different events of public and private life in words, by one Shaykh Asad, or Asad Allāh as he also calls himself.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 101
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: Undated.
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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