MS. Selden Superius 28 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Anecdotes, Islamic legends, Tradition, Sufi literature, Persian poetry, and Correspondence
1. ff. 1-16
Author: Anonymous
Title: Untitled
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 336
no. 336
2. ff. 103-108, and 17-102
Author: Mīr Ḥusaynī Haravī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻĀlim, 1272 or 3-ca. 1317 مير حسينى هروى، حسين بن عالم Shaykh Rukn al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn ʻĀlim ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī, Fakhr al-Sādāt الشيخ ركن الدين حسين بن عالم بن أبي الحسن الحسيني، فخر السادات
Title: Nuzhat al-arwāḥ
Title: نزهة الأرواح
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1255
no. 1255
3. ff. 109-177
Author: Qāsim Bīg Khākī قاسم بيگ خاکی
Title: Divān-i Khākī
Title: ديوان خاكى
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 977
no. 977
4.
Author: Anonymous
Title: A letter in Urdu
Language(s): Urdu

References

Ethé 2349
5. ff. 225-295
Author: Hātifī, d. 1520 or 21
Title: Laylá va Majnūn
Title: ليلى و مجنون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 998
no. 998

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 295 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: 11th cent. AH; 17th cent. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Selden.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.

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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