MS. Elliott 345 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Elliott Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: 7 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Timur, Turkey, Islamic Empire, World history, Universal history, Persian poetry, Poets, Anecdotes, Persian literature, Love in literature, Sufis, Ethics, and Aphorisms and apothegms
1. ff. 1-329, centre column
Title: Ẓafar′nāmah
Title: ظفر نامه
Language(s): Persian
References
Ethé 157
2. ff. 329-672, centre column
Title: Khulāṣat al-akhbār
Title: خلاصة الأخبار
Language(s): Persian
References
Ethé 86
3. ff. 672-697, centre column
Title: Niẓām al-tawārīkh
Title: نظام التواریخ
Language(s): Persian
References
Ethé 18
4. ff. 2b-221, margin column
Title: Tadhkirat al-shuʻarāʼ
Title: تذکرة الشعراء
Incipit: تحمیدی که شاه باز بلند پرواز اندیشه بساحت
Language(s): Persian
References
Ethé 357
5. ff. 221b-523b, margin column
Title: Nigāristān
Title: نگارستان
Language(s): Persian
References
Ethé 340
6. ff. 524-684, margin column
Title: Majālis al-ʻushshāq
Title: مجالس العشاق
Language(s): Persian
Also attributed to Ḥusayn Bāyqarā, Sultan of Khorasan, 1438-1506 حسين بايقرا .
References
Ethé 1273
7. ff. 684-699, margin column, and ff. 697-699, centre column
Title: Qānūn al-ḥikmat wa-dastūr
Title: قانون الحكمة و دستور
Language(s): Persian
References
Ethé 1417
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 699 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):
Layout
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq
History
Origin: n.d.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley.
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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