MS. Ouseley 15 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Lapidaries, Precious stones, Social life and customs, India, Mogul Empire, Iran, and Physiognomy
1. ff. 1-32
Author: Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Jawharī أحمد بن عبد العزيز جوهري
Title: Muntakhab az Jawāhir-nāmah
Title: منتخب از جواهر نامه
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1879
2. ff. 33-57
Author: Anonymous مؤلف مجهول
Title: ʻAqāʼid al-niswān
Title: عقائد النسوان
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1890
3. ff. 58-73
Author: Anonymous مؤلف مجهول
Title: A fragment of a historical work on the governors of Bangālah
Language(s): Persian

Incomplete at beginning and end

References

Ethé 278
4. ff. 74-228
Author: Shabānkārahʹī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, b. 1298 محمد بن علي بن محمد شبانكارهاي
Title: Majmaʻ al-ansāb
Title: مجمع الأنساب
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 31
5. ff. 229-258
Author: Burj Mūhan Maḥsūrī? برج موهن محسوری
Title: Mirʼāt al-qiyāfah
Title: مرآت القيافة
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1882

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 258 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: n.d.

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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