MS. Selden Superius 95 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
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Summary of Contents: A compilation of three fragmentary Persian works on theology and geography and five Turkish historical fragments about places and figures in Salghurid and Timurid Iran and Central Asia. Note that folios 40-47 have been left blank.folios 1a-24bAuthor: Yūsuf ʻAlī يوسف عليTitle: Risalah fī ithbāt al-wājibTitle: رساله في إثبات الواجبIncipit: حمد متواتر و ثنای متکاثر فراخور معبودیست که عادت او احسان و مغفرت خلقانست و عبادتخ موجب نجات ایشانA partially erased note on folio 4a, line 2 indicates that the text (or perhaps the manuscript?) was dedicated to a certain سلطان شاه (...) الحسینی بهادر خان Sulṭān Shāh (...) al-Ḥusaynī Bahādur Khān.
Language(s): PersianReferences
folios 25a-33bTranslator: anonymousTitle: ظفرنامهTitle: ẒafarnāmahTitle: ẒafernāmeTitle: حکایت خطایTitle: Ḥikāyat-i KhiṭāyTitle: Ḥikāyet-i ḪıṭāyRubric: من مآثر البلدان (folio 25b, line 1)Incipit: رای عالم آرای سالکان مسالک بداٸع وساٸران ممالک وقاٸعLanguage(s): Ottoman Turkish with some Persian and ArabicTranslated from the Persian of the section on خطای Khiṭāy (roughly northern China) during the reign of شاهرخ میرزا Shāh Rukh Mīrzā, 1377-1446 in یزدی Yazdī's ظفرنامه Ẓafarnāmah of تیمور Timur, 1336-1405.
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folios 34a-37aTitle: مطلع السعدین ومجمع البحرینTitle: داستان هندوستانTitle: Dāstān-i HindūstānTitle: Dāstān-ı HindūstānIncipit: folio 34a, line 1 اول زمانکه جناب شاخرخی مطلع السعدین صاحبی اولان عبد الرزّاق بن اسحاق سمرقندیLanguage(s): Ottoman TurkishTranslated from the Persian of the section on India in 1441-1442 AD/845 AH, during the reign of شاهرخ میرزا Shāh Rukh Mīrzā, 1377-1446 in ʿAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī, 1413-1482 عبد الرزاق کمال الدین بن اسحاق السمرقندی ‘Abdurazzāḳ Kemāleddīn bin İsḥāḳ el-Semerḳandī 's مطلع السعدین ومجمع البحرین Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn wa-majmaʻ al-baḥrayn.
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folio 37bAuthor: anonymousTitle: من اللطاٸفTitle: Min el-leṭā'ifTitle: من اللطایفTitle: Min el-leṭāyifLanguage(s): Ottoman TurkishAn anonymous anecdote from the life of سعدی شیرازی Saʻdī Shīrāzī .
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folios 38a-38bAuthor: anonymousTitle: من النواٸبTitle: Min el-nevā'ibTitle: من النوایبTitle: Min el-nevāyibLanguage(s): Ottoman TurkishAn anonymous anecdote from the year 1202-1203 599, during the reign of the Salghurid Atabeg سعد بن زنگی Saʻd ibn Zangī, patron of سعدی شیرازی Saʻdī Shīrāzī .
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folio 39aAuthor: anonymousTitle: من النوادرTitle: Min el-nevādirLanguage(s): Ottoman TurkishAn anonymous anecdote from the year 1400-1401 AD/ 803 AH, during the reign of تیمور Timur, 1336-1405.
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folios 49a-146bTitle: Kitāb-i Masālik al-mamālikTitle: كتاب مسالك الممالكLanguage(s): PersianReferences
Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. 146Dimensions (leaf): 24.8 × 15.2 cm.Layout
Single column of 12 lines per page on folios 1a-24b.
Single column of 20 lines per page on folios 25b-39a.
Single column of 16 lines per page on folios 49a-146b.
Hand(s)
Script: Nasta‘līq with some Shikasta-style ligatures. Scribe unknown.
Additions: Considerable marginalia in Latin, probably made by John Selden.History
Origin: Place of origin unknown. According to the colophon, completed in 1681 AD/1092 AH.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 1889-1953Availability
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