MS. Ouseley 160 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 8 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Alphabets, Composition and exercises, Persian poetry, Zoroastrianism, Almanacks, Music, and India
1. ff. 1-15
Author: Anonymous
Title: A collection of sixty fantastic alphabets
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1932 [1]
2. ff. 16-34
Title: Exercises in Persian and Urdu
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1932 [2]
3. ff. 35-54
Author: Zartusht Bahrām, fl. 1278 زرتشت بهرام بن پژدو
Title: Changranghachah′nāmah
Title: چنگرنگهاچه نامه
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1951
4. ff. 55-70
Author: Anonymous
Title: A Persian almanack for A.H. 1195 = 1780-81, composed in India
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1572
5. f. 72a
Author: Anonymous
Title: A short account of the 12 maqāms and 24 shuʻbahs in music
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1850 [1]
6. ff. 72a-74a
Author: Abū al-Ḥasan al-mutakhalliṣ bih Qayṣar أبو الحسن المتخلص به قيصر
Title: [Risālah dar] maʻrifat al-naghm
Title: رساله در] معرفة النغم]
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 1850 [2]
7. ff. 76-77
Author: Anonymous
Title: Two unconnected leaves of an historical work, relating to the contest between Muḥammad Shāh and the two Sayyids, Ḥusayn ʻAlī and ʻAbd Allāh Khān
Language(s): Persian

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Ethé 199 [1]
8. ff. 78-81
Author: ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Dihlavī, 1551-1642 الدهلوي، عبد الحق بن سيف الدين، 959-1052 هـ
Title: Taʼrīkh-i Ḥaqqī
Title: تأريخ حقّى

A portion of the work only

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 199 [2]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 81 ff.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq and Shikastah

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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JISC

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