MS. Ouseley 94 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A composite manuscript containing an Urdu grammar in English, a collection of tales in Urdu, and the Persian Dīwān of the poet Āftāb.
ff. 39-3a
Language(s): English, Urdu
References
ff. 43-65
Title: A selection of short stories
Stories in Urdu, chiefly taken from the Anwār-i Suhaylī.
Language(s): Urdu
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 128
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq and Shikastah Scribe: Rawshan ʻAlī [item 3 only].
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: 6th Jumādā I 1198 AH; 28th March 1798 CE
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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