MS. Fraser 252 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Oriental Manuscripts Fraser Collection

Contents

2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Archery, Swordsmanship, Persian poetry, and Sufi poetry

1. ff. 1-42
Author: Anonymous
Title: Risālah dar hunar-i tīr′andāzī va khanjar′guzārī
Title: رساله در هنر تیر اندازی و خنجر گذاری
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1885
no. 1885
2. ff. 51b-84a
Author: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 العطار، محمد بن إبراهيم، 513-627 هـ
Title: Bīsar′nāmah
Title: بيسرنامه
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 634
no. 634

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 84 ff.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: 1112-1113 AH; 1700-1702 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Fraser, d. 1754.

Purchased for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford from Fraser's widow.

The Radcliffe Library, Oxford.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

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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