MS. Elliott 345 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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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
Author: Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, d. 1454 شرف الدین علی الیزدی
Title: Ẓafar′nāmah
Title: ظفر نامه
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 157
no. 157
2. ff. 329-672, centre column
Author: Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, ca. 1475-1535? خواند مير، غياث الدين بن همام الدين
Title: Khulāṣat al-akhbār
Title: خلاصة الأخبار
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 86
no. 86
3. ff. 672-697, centre column
Author: Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, d. 1286? البيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر، ت. 685 هـ
Title: Niẓām al-tawārīkh
Title: نظام التواریخ
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 18
no. 18
4. ff. 2b-221, margin column
Author: Dawlatshāh Samarqandī, d. ca. 1494 دولتشاه بن علاء الدولة بختیشاه سمرقندی
Title: Tadhkirat al-shuʻarāʼ
Title: تذکرة الشعراء
Incipit: تحمیدی که شاه باز بلند پرواز اندیشه بساحت
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 357
no. 357
5. ff. 221b-523b, margin column
Author: Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, ca. 1495-1567 or 8 غفارى، احمد بن محمد
Title: Nigāristān
Title: نگارستان
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 340
no. 340
6. ff. 524-684, margin column
Author: Gāzargāhī, Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn, fl. 16 cent. گزرگاهی، كمال الدين حسين
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
no. 1273
7. ff. 684-699, margin column, and ff. 697-699, centre column
Author: Anonymous
Title: Qānūn al-ḥikmat wa-dastūr
Title: قانون الحكمة و دستور
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1417
no. 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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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