Yazma eserler İngiliz kütüphanesi
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 144 ; Title: Kitab Suwar al-kawakib
Sufi, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Umar, 903-986
Date: 11th century, dated 1009-10 [A.H. 400] Description: Al-Sufi's Book of the Fixed Stars, a revision of Ptolemy's Almagest with Arabic star names and drawings of the constellations.
Format: Ms. codex ; 419 pages : paper, ill., 265 x 180 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illustrations in textLayout: Written in 15 lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Written in A.H. 400; colophon, p. 419
Provenance: Marsh bequest, 1713. Purchased by Narcissus Marsh at the sale of Jacob Golius's library in Leiden, 1696. Ownership inscription of Christian Ravius, 1641, p. 419.
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 926 ; Card catalogue of Arabic MSS. Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 662 ; Title: Javidan khirad
Ibn Miskawayh, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, d. 1030
Date: 11th century, dated 1047 [A.H. 439] Description: Philosophical work of the 10th century A.D, in the Peripatetic School of Islamic philosophy.
Format: Ms. codex ; 147 leaves : paper, 295 x 195 (written area 225 x 125, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations in giltLayout: Written in 19 lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Written in A.H.439; Colophon, fol. 147b.
Provenance: Marsh bequest, 1713. Purchased by Narcissus Marsh at the sale of Jacob Golius's library in Leiden, 1696.
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh.292 ; Card catalogue of Arabic MSS. Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 667 ; Title: al-Makhrutat [Conika. (Arabic)]
Apollonius, of Perga
Date: 11th century, dated 1070 Description: Books 1-7 of the Conica, the geometrical treatise of Apollonius
of Perga (c. 262-190 BC). Books 1-4 translated into Arabic by Hilal b. Abi al-Hims,i, Books 5-7 translated by Thabit bin Kurrah. With glosses by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi This copy used by Edmund Halley in preparing his complete edition of the Conica, printed Oxford 1710.
Format: Ms. codex ; 173 leaves : paper, 310 x 210 (written area 235 x 150) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: diagramsLayout: written in 29 lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Dated in letters of the alphabet, A.H. 462; colophon, fol. 164a.
References: A.F.L. Beeston, "The Marsh manuscript of Apollonius's Conica," BLR 4:2 (1952) Provenance: Marsh bequest, 1713. Purchased by Narcissus Marsh at the sale of Jacob Golius's library in Leiden, 1696. Ownership inscription by ?Golius on fol. 1a, "Halebi XIX Sept. Ann. MDCXXVII", i.e. 19 Sept. 1627; Ownership inscription by Narcissus Marsh, fol. 2a.
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 943 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 516 ; Title: Qanun al-mas‛udi [Masudi canon]
Biruni, Muh)ammad ibn Ah)mad, 973?-1048
Date: 11th century, dated 1082 Description: Arabic manuscript of an astronomical treatise, with diagrams and tables. Books 1-6 of al-Biruni's work.
Format: Ms. codex ; 161 leaves : paper, 200 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description: Decoration: diagramsLayout: Written in 24 lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophons at end of each book: fols. 11a, 55b, 79a, 117b, 124b, 160b; first, third, fifth, and sixth dated in successive months of 475 A.H.
Record source and standard citations: Nicoll, 370 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record. Item catalogued from existing description: card catalogue of Arabic MSS, Bodleian Library. CW/AF
Shelfmark: MS. Hunt. 264 ; Title: Tabs,irat arbab al-albab fi kayfiyat al-najah fi al-h,urub
Tarsusi, Mardi ibn 'Ali, d. 1193
Date: 12th century Description: Manuscript made for Saladin (Salahuddin), general of Egypt during the 12th-century European crusades, describing weapons and
techniques of warfare.
Format: Ms. codex ; 209 leaves : double-sided paper, 245 x 180 (written area 155 x 130) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: gilt lettering of preface and colophon. Illustrations, fols. 85a, 85b, 87b, 92a, 94a, 102b, 117b, 133a, 134b-135a, 137a, 138aLayout: Written in 11 lines.
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Commissioned by Saladin; colophon fols. 213b-214a.
Provenance: Inscription on fol. 4a, "R. Huntingdon".
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 371 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Huntington 212 ; Title: Suwar al-kawakib#Book of constellations of the fixed stars
Sufi, ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Umar, 903-986
Date: 12th century, c. 1170 [A.H. 566] Description: Illustrated treatise on astronomy
Format: Ms. codex ; 174 leaves : paper,
Physical description: Decoration:Layout:
Summary: Arabic /
References: History of cartography, p. 52
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 899 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Greaves 42 ; Title: Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq
Idrisi, ca. 1100-1166
Date: Description: The first three portions of a medieval Arabic geography, describing the known world from the equator to the latitude of North Africa, and from the Atlantic to Eastern China. This manuscript contains the text of al-Idrisi up to the end of the third climate (of seven climates described in the entire text).
Format: Ms. codex ; : paper, ill., 320 x 235, bound to 335 x 270 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: mapsLayout:
Script: Arabic North African
Summary: Arabic /
Provenance: Donor inscription of Thomas Greaves, fol. ia
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 884 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Arab. d.138 ; Title: Hayula ‘ilaj al-t,ibb [De materia medica. (Arabic)]
Dioscorides Pedanius,of Anazarbos
Date: 13th century, dated 1240 [A.H. 637] Description: Arabic translation of a Greek treatise on medicines, copied in 1240, probably in Baghdad. Books 3-5 of Dioscorides' Materia Medica, comprising the sections on herbs, roots, and wines, the final three books of Dioscorides' work.
Format: Ms. codex ; 209 leaves : paper, ill., 245 x 170 (written area 175 x 105) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations on fols. 2r, 3r, 90v, 184v; portrait of Dioscorides (defaced) on fol. 2v; botanical illustrations throughout up to fol. 184Layout: Written in 15 long lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Written in Baghdad in 1240 [A.H. 637]; colophon, fol. 210a.
References: Emilie Savage-Smith, Catalogue of medical mss (typescript in Oriental Section) Provenance: Purchased by William Osler before 1910
Record source and standard citations: Robinson and Gray (1972), p. 9; Kahle (handlist), 91 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record. Item catalogued from existing description: card catalogue of Arabic MSS, Bodleian Library.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 94a-95b, 97a-130a ; Title: Durar wa‘l-yawak)it fi ‘ilm al-ras)ad wa‘l-mawak)it li-ma‘rifat auk)at al-s)alawat ‘ala h)ukm al-dak)a‘ik) wa‘l-darajat
al-Mis)ri, Abu al-‘Abbas ibn Abi ‘Abd Allah Muh)ammad ibn Ah)mad
Date: 14th century, dated 1334 Description:
Format: Ms. codex ; 36 leaves : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophon, fol. 130r
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 458 ; Title: Maqamat al-H'ariri
H'ariri, 1054-1122
Date: 14th century, dated 1337 Description: An illustrated manuscript of al-Hariri's picaresque stories
Format: Ms. codex ; 129 leaves : paper, ill., 375 x 260 (written area 265 x 187, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illustrations in textLayout:
Summary: Arabic /
Provenance: Marsh bequest, 1713. Purchased by Narcissus Marsh at the sale of Jacob Golius's library in Leiden, 1696. Ownership inscription of Christian Ravius, 1641, p. 419.
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 353 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Greaves 27 ; Title: Jami bayna al- ilm wa-al- amal al-nafi fi s,inaat al-h,iyal [The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices]
Jazari, Isma‛il ibn al-Razzaz, fl. 1181-1204.
Date: 14th century, dated 1341 Description: Treatise on water clocks, automata, water raisers, and other machines composed by Jazari in 1206.
Format: Ms. codex ; 115 leaves : paper, 165 x 175 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: 70 illustrations Layout: Written in 27 lines
Summary: Arabic /
References: Donald R. Hill, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari. (Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1974)
Record source and standard citations: Uri, Arab. Moh. 886 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pococke 400 ; Title: Kalilah wa-Dimnah
Date: 14th century, dated 1354 Description: Arabic version of fables or folktales, featuring humans and animals, known in the Sanskrit version as the Panchatantra
Format: Ms. codex ; 152 leaves : paper, ill., 365 x 250
Physical description: Decoration: illustrations in textLayout: Written in 15 long linesScript: naskhi
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Written A.H. 755. Colophon, fol. 152b.
References: Esin Atil, Kalila wa Dimna: fables from a fourteenth-century Arabic manuscript. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981)
Record source and standard citations: Uri, 356 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 131a-163a ; Title: Qu‘rah al-ja‘friyah#[Divination by lot-casting]
Abu Ma‛sar, d. 886
Date: 14th century, dated 1397 Description: Treatise on divination by casting of lots
Format: Ms. portion ; 33 leaves : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Arab. d.221 ; Title: [Collection of magical and other treatises, including Cyranides, Book 1]
Hermes, Trismegistus#Xenocrates, of Aphrodisias, 1st cent.
Date: 14th century? Description: Hermetic work containing an adaptation from the Greek of part of Book 1 of the Cyranides, in 24 chapters, one for each letter of the Greek alphabet. 14th century?
Format: Ms. codex ; 83 leaves : paper, ill., 237 x 192 (written area 180 x 140) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: pen-and-wash illustrations in the text
Layout: Written in 19 long lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophon, fol. 83r? Contents: fols. 64-75 are a translation of Book 1 of the Kyranides References: BLR (1962) Provenance: see Stamp on fol. 83v
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record. Item catalogued from existing description: card catalogue of Arabic MSS, Bodleian Library.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133 ; Title: Kitab al-Bulhan ... [etc.] [see additional entries below]
[see individual items]
Date: 14th-15th centuries Description: Composite manuscript, dating principally from the late 14th century A.D., containing astrological, astronomical and divinatory texts compiled by Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani, with paintings of the constellations of the zodiac, of demons, illustrations of stories, and geomantic illustrations of the prophets, and a cryptographic inscription in 17th-century English hand. Fol. 81a is in Turkish.
Format: Ms. codex ; 176 leaves : paper, ill., 245 x 160 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 83 illustrations, including miniatures (paintings)Layout: Various page formatsScript: naskh, with title in Eastern qufic, fol. 1v
Summary: Arabic / Contents: 1. fols. 1a-80b, Kitab al-Bulhan / Isfahani, including: fols. 2b-25a, Kitab al-Mawalid, Book of Nativities, fols. 28a-33a a catalogue of demons, fols. 33b-43b, 45b-46b, Marvellous stories (of the prophet Muhammad), fols. 44a-45b, 47a-49b, The seasons and the climates. -- 2. Fol. 81a, page in Turkish. 3. fols. 81b-93b, paintings of the constellations of the zodiac -- 4. fols. 94a-130a, al-Durar wa-l-yawaqit fi ilm al-rasd wa-l-mawaqit, Astronomical tract / Abu al-Abbas Ahmad bin Abi Abd Allah Muhammad-- 5. fols. 131-163, Kitab al-Fal (Treatise on kur'ah / Ja'far al-Sadik -- 6. Fols. 163b-169a, al-Kurat al-mubarakah / Irbili -- 7. fols. 170a-173b, Alphabetic divination -- 8. fols. 174a-176a, Treatise on the zodiac References: Stefano Carboni, Il Kitab al-bulhan di Oxford (Torino : Editrice Tirrenia, 1988); Binyon, Wilkinson, and Gray, Persian miniature painting (Oxford: 1971), cat. 13; Persian art of the book, Bodleian Library (1972), p. 10, no. 3. Provenance: Patron of Kitab al-Bulhan, 1399, Husayn al-Irbili (inscription ff. 163a and 169a); Bought 1409 by Haydar b. Abd al-Karim, Aleppo (inscription f. 131a); Owned, c. 1608-1610, Yahya b. Muhammad, Edirne (inscription f. ia); Bodleian Library, Nathaniel Palmer bequest, 1717.
Record source and standard citations: Nicoll, 283; Robinson and Gray (1972), p. 10. ; Oriental Surrogates Project record. Item catalogued from existing description: card catalogue of Arabic MSS, Bodleian Library, with the assistance of Emilie Savage-Smith, Faculty of Oriental Studies.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 170a-173b ; Title: [Treatise on geomancy]
Date: c. 15th century Description: Treatise on alphabetic divination
Format: Ms. codex ; 4 leaves : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Arab. b.10 ; Title: H$awi fi al-t,ibb ... [portions, etc.]
Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?
Date: 15th century Description: Medical encyclopedia, containing portions of Razi's al-Hawi fi al-tibb, with portions of his al-Fakhir and al-Mansuri fi al-tibb. 15th century.
Format: Ms. codex ; 718 leaves : paper, 465 x 305 (written area 365 x 195) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Written in 27 long lines
Binding: Modern blue half-leather, textblock trimmed.
Summary: Arabic / Contents: 1. al-Hawi fi al-tibb / Razi. -- 2. al-Fakhir fi al-tibb / Razi. -- 3. al-Mansuri fi al-tibb/ Razi References: Iskandar, A.Z., "Rhazes' clinical experience: new material", Al-Machriq, lvi (1962), p. 217.
Record source and standard citations: Card catalogue of Arabic MSS, Bodleian Library ; Oriental Surrogates Project record. Item catalogued from existing description: card catalogue of Arabic MSS, Bodleian Library.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 163b-169a ; Title: [Treatise on geomancy]
Date: 15th century, dated 1415 [A.H. 817] Description: Treatise on geomantic divination by casting of lots
Format: Ms. codex ; 7 leaves : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 174a-176b ; Title: [Treatise on zodiacal signs]
Date: 15th century, dated 1436 [A.H. 839] Description: Illustrated treatise on zodiacal signs.
Format: Ms. codex ; 3 leaves : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description: Layout: Written in 28 and 29 lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophon fol. 176a (second scribe), 839 A.H.
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 1b-80b ; Title: Kitab al-Bulhan [a treatise of various geomantic and divinatory methods]
Is)fahani, ‘Abd al-Hasan bin Ah)mad bin Ali bin al-Hasan (author and collector)
Date: 15th century, early Description:
Format: Ms. codex ; 80 leaves : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description: Layout: Written in 22 and 23 long lines, with other layouts of grids of verses
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophon, fol. 25a
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 294 ; Title: Portolan atlas
Sharafi al-Sifaqsi, 'Ali ibn Ah,mad, fl. c. 1570
Date: ?16th century Description: Portolan atlas containing a world map, regional maps of the Mediterranean, and astronomical and chronological tables; undated
manuscript of a work compiled c.1571.
Format: Ms. codex ; 16 leaves : paper, 268 x 207 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 8 pages of maps.
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Uri, 935; Nicoll p. 602; S.C. 9289 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh. 294 ; Title: Sea-Atlas
Sharafi al-Sifaqsi, 'Ali ibn Ahmad
Date: 16th century, 1571 (A.H. 979)
Format: ; 16 leaves : paper,
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic /
Provenance: Purchased by Narcissus Marsh in 1696 from the collection of Jacob Golius; bequeathed to the Bodleian Library 1714.
Record source and standard citations: Uri, 935; S.C. 9289 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pococke 375 ; Title: Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq
Idrisi, ca. 1100-1166
Date: 16th century, dated 1553
Format: Ms. codex ; 325 leaves : paper, ill. (maps), 300 x 218
Physical description: Decoration: 69 maps in text; 1 folding mapLayout: Written in 25 long lines
Summary: Arabic / Origin: Written in 1553; colophon, fol. 326b
References: Konrad Miller, Mappae arabicae (Stuttgart, 1926-31); Cartography in the traditional Islamic and South Asian societies (London: University of Chicago Press, 1987--)
Record source and standard citations: Uri, 887 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Arab. g.5(R) ; Title: Qur’an [Koran]
Date: 19th century, dated 1814 Description: Koran, dated 14th Shawwil A.H. 1229 (A.D. 1814, Sept. 29). Written on a roll, with case.
Format: Ms. codex ; roll : ,
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Hermann Ethé, Arabic Manuscripts (handwritten list), 148 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record. Item catalogued from existing description
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, fols. 81b-93a ; Title: [Treatise on zodiacal constellations]
Date: undated Description:
Format: Ms. codex ; : paper, 245 x 160 mm. (page)
Physical description:
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 11-26 ; Title: [A casuistical book in Arabic]
Date: undated
Format: ; 16 leaves : paper, 265 x 155 (written area 220 x 110) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: written in 29 long linesScript: Oriental cursive
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb.d.32, fols. 27-29 ; Title: [A philosophical treatise in
Arabic]
Date: undated
Format: ; ? : parchment, 230 x 140 (written area 218 x 140) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 27 long linesScript: Oriental semi-cursive
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 29-38 ; Title: [Responsa of Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013-1103)]
Isaac al-Fasi
Date: undated
Format: ; ? : paper, 220 x 150 (written area 150 x 105) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 19 long linesScript: Oriental semi-cursive
Summary: Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 178 ; Title: Kuran
Date: undated Description: Manuscript of the Kuran, richly decorated with blue and gilt illuminations, frontispiece on two pages, chapter headings, marginal decorations on every page, and gilt roundels marking the verses.
Format: Ms. codex ; 285 leaves : paper, 370 x 240 (225 x 150)
Physical description: Decoration: Illuminations. Illuminated frontispiece on fols. 1b-2a, text in gold, border decorations throughout, chapter headings white on gilt.Layout: Written in 12 long linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Arabic /
Provenance: inscription on fol. 1a, "Sir Gore Ouseley Bart."
Record source and standard citations: Ethé Arabic (ms.), 150 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Chinese
Shelfmark: Sinica 440/2 ; Title: Sheng guan tu
Date: 19th century, dated 1840 Description: Printed game with the object of attaining high rank in the Chinese imperial bureaucracy
Format: Single printed sheet ; 1 leaf : paper, 820 x 750 mm.
Physical description:
printed
Summary: Chinese /
Record source and standard citations: ; David Helliwell (Bodleian Library, 2006). Additional record in Bodleian Chinese catalogue.
Coptic
Shelfmark: MS. Bruce 96 ; Title: [The two books of Jeu(?) and an untitled Gnostic treatise]
Date: 5th or 6th century Description: Coptic manuscript of Gnostic texts, including the Books of Jeu, composed in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D., in Egypt.
Format: Ms. codex ; 71 leaves : papyrus, 290 x 170 mm. (page)
Physical description: Decoration:Layout:
Summary: Coptic / Contents: 1. First book of Jeu -- 2. Second book of Jeu -- TBC References: C. Schmidt, The books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex (Leiden: Brill, 1978, trans. V. Macdermot) Provenance: bought in Egypt by James Bruce in 1769. Purchased by Bodleian Library in 1843 as part of Bruce's collection.
Record source and standard citations: ; Description by Bruce Barker-Benfield, 2006 (typescript in Oriental Collections).
Georgian
Shelfmark: MS. Georg. b.1 ; Title: [Menologion for March-August, followed by biographies of saintly women]
Date: 11th century, dated 1038-40 Description: A Georgian liturgical manuscript made in Jerusalem, 11th century
Format: Ms. codex ; ff. 500 (missing 3 gatherings) : vellum, 390 x 250 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration:Layout:
Summary: Georgian / Contents: Calendar of saints, including an account of the sack of Jerusalem by the Persians in AD 614 (fols. 124-165)
Record source and standard citations: Barrett, p. 305 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Wardrop d.27 ; Title: Vep'khis tqaosani
Rustaveli, Shota, 12th/13th cent.
Date: 17th century, second half Description: Georgian epic poem, The man in the panther skin, composed by Shot'a Rust'aveli in the late 12th or early 13th century
Format: Ms. codex ; 176 leaves : paper, ill., 245 x 170
Physical description: 18 miniatures, 3 illustrations in the text
mkhedruli
Summary: Georgian /
Provenance: Purchased from the executors of Sir Bernard Eckstein, the Marjory Wardrop fund contributing half the cost
Record source and standard citations: Barrett, p. 327 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Hebrew
Shelfmark: MS. Hunt. 80 ; Title: Mishneh Torah I-II
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: 12th century, between 1181 and 1204 Description: Maimonides' Misheh Torah with poems by other authors in praise of Maimonides.
Format: Ms. codex ; 188 leaves : paper, 290 x 210 (written area 220 x 145)
mm.
Physical description: Decorations: diagramsLayout: Written in 25 lines.Script: oriental semi-cursive
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 577 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Hunt. 117 ; Title: Commentary on Mishnah Zeraim
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: 12th century, c. 1165 Description: Autograph manuscript of Maimonides' Commentary on Mishnah Zeraim.
Format: Ms. codex ; 133 leaves : paper, 275 x 190 (written area 230 x 150) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 31 long linesScript: Sephardic semi-cursive
Summary: Judeo-Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 393 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pococke 295 ; Title: Commentary on Mishnah Nezikin and Kodashim
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204; [scribe]: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: 12th century, c.1167 Description: Autograph manuscript of Maimonides' Commentary on Mishnah Nezikin and Kodashim
Format: Ms. codex ; 301 leaves : paper, 280 x 190 (written area 230 x 150) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: diagramsLayout: Written in 31 long linesSephardic semi-cursive
Summary: Judeo-Arabic /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 404; UH
182 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Oppenheim 154 ; Title: Meshal ha-Kadmoni
Sahula, Isaac ben Solomon, 13th cent.
Date: 15th century, dated 1450 Description: A mid-15th century illustrated manuscript of Hebrew animal fables, composed by Isaac ben Solomon Sahula in the 13th century. This manuscript copy predates the first printed edition of these fables, in Venice in 1491, by less than 50 years.
Format: Ms. codex ; 59 leaves : parchment, 275 x 175 (written area 210 x 130) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illustrations and diagrams. 52 illustrations in the text, on 51 pages; 5 astronomical/astrological charts on 5 pagesLayout: Written in 36 long lines.Script: Ashkenazi semi-cursive
Summary: Hebrew / Origin: Colophon, fol. 59b
Provenance: ownership inscription, Joseph b. Sim[ha]; collection of David ben Abraham Oppenheimer (1667-1735), Chief Rabbi of Prague; collection of Isaak Berend Salomon of Hamburg; purchased by the Bodleian Library, 1829
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 1405; Beit-Arié, Supplement, 234 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Kennicott 1 ; Title: Bible. O.T.
Date: 15th century, dated 1476 Description: Bible (O.T.), highly decorated, with contemporary Hispano-Moresque box-binding. Made at Corunna in north-west Spain for Isaac de Braga and written by the scribe Moses ibn Zabara, who completed the work in [?]1476.
Format: Ms. codex ; : parchment,
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, including carpet-pages, and illustrations throughout the text.Layout:Script: Sephardic
Summary: Hebrew / Origin: Written in Corunna, Spain, 1476.
Provenance: Commissioned by Isaac de Braga, Corunna, Spain, 15th century. Acquired for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, by Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783). Transferred to the Bodleian Library, 1872.
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2322 ;
Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32 ; Title: [Fragments from the Cairo Geniza]
Date: undated
Format: ; 100 leaves : paper,
Physical description: Decoration:Layout:
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 1, 2 ; Title: [Fragment of a sermon in praise of the Levite] ... [etc.]
Date: undated
Format: ; 2 leaves : paper, 230 x 156 (written area 170 x 100) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 19 long linesScript: Oriental semi-cursive
Summary: Hebrew / Contents: 1. fol. 1 [Fragment of a sermon in praise of the Levite] -- fol. 2 [Fragment of a sermon on Canticles iv. 3]
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 3, 4 ; Title: [Fragment of the Midrash on Prov. xvi. 3 to xvi. 31] ... [etc.]
Date: undated
Format: ; 2 leaves : parchment, 245 x 148 (written area 233 x 120) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 34 long lines
Summary: Hebrew / Contents: fol. 3. [Fragment of the Midrash on Prov. xvi. 3 to xvi. 31] -- fol. 4. [Fragment of the Midrash on Prov. xxiii. 23 to xxv. 1]
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ;
Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 5-10 ; Title: [Rabbi Hananel's commentary on the Babylonian Talmud]
Hananel ben Hushi'el, d. 1055 or 6
Date: undated
Format: ; 6 leaves : parchment, 230 x 160 (written area 165 x 120) mm.
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 26 long linesScript: Sephardic semi-cursive
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 39-46 ; Title: [Fragment of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: undated
Format: ; 8 leaves : paper, 230 x 155 (written area 180 x 180) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Written in 24 long lines
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 47-56 ; Title: [Fragment of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: undated
Format: ; 10 leaves : paper, 225 x 155 (written area 165 x 105) mm.
Physical description:
Layout: Written in 18 long lines
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 57-62 ; Title: [Fragment of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: undated
Format: ; 6 leaves : paper, 232 x 150 (written area 165 x 95) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Written in 19 long lines
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 63-78 ; Title: [Commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
Date: undated
Format: ; 6 leaves : paper, 225 x 150 (written area 175 x 115) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Written in 22 long lines
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 79-100 ; Title: [Arabic commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]
Date: undated
Format: ; 22 leaves : paper, 265 x 180 (written area 190 x 120) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Written in 24 long lines
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Neubauer, Hebrew Cat., 2794 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Heb. e.62 ; Title: [Fragment of Ecclesiastes, chapter xl.9-xlix.11]
Date: undated
Format: ; 9 leaves : paper, 192 x 172 (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration:Layout:
Summary: Hebrew /
Record source and standard citations: Edition, Oxford 1897 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Indian paintings -- Link to descriptions of albums of Indian paintings
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 171 ; Title: Indian picture album : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 16th-18th centuries Description: 25 pictures, in various Indian styles, and 1 specimen of calligraphy
Format: Album (disbound) ; 25 leaves : paper, ill., box, 600 x 445
Physical description: Decoration: 25 paintings
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1894 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. a.3 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy, dating mostly from the 18th century, containing portraits, court and hunting scenes, harem scenes, and mythological scenes : Link to a list
of paintings in this album
Date: 16th-18th century Description: An album of 38 Indian paintings: 14 portraits in the Mughal styles of the courts of Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb; 15 portraits and pictures; 10 pictures of Hindu deities
Format: Album (disbound) ; 38 leaves : paper, ill., Binding, 520 x 400; box, 580 x 425
Physical description: Decoration: 38 miniature paintings
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: Douce, Francis, 1757-1834; Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2382 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. a.1 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy, dating from the period of Shahjahan's reign, including several portraits of the Mughal emperors : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 17th century Description: An album of 41 Indian paintings chiefly from first half of the 17th century, expressive of the Mughal lineage of Shahjahan. With Persian calligraphic specimens and 9 leaves of text. Most of the inset paintings have floral borders, some have inner borders depicting bunches of grapes. Fols. 10-18 contain text, portions of Jami's Tuhfat al-ahrar.
Format: Album ; 60 leaves : paper, ill., 385 x 255 mm. (page)
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations; 41 miniature paintingsLayout: Layout of text section, 7 lines.
Summary: Indian / Contents: ff.10-18, Tuhfat al-ahrar / Jami
Provenance: Chauncey, Charles, 1709-1777; engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Chauncy inside lower cover. Douce, Francis,1757-1834; Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2381 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Laud Or.149 ; Title: Album of ragamala pictures and other Indian paintings : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 17th century, c. 1600-1640
Format: Album ; 66 leaves : paper, ill., 380 x 246 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: 30 miniatures
Layout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1900 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. c.4 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 17th-18th centuries Description: An album of 53 Indian paintings and 7 calligraphic specimens.
Format: Album ; 54 leaves : paper, ill., 266 x 220 mm. (maximum page size)
Physical description: Decoration: 53 miniature paintings
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: Douce, Francis, 1757-1834; Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2379 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 166 ; Title: Indian picture album : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 17th-18th centuries Description: 44 pictures, including court, harem, and hunting scenes, with portraits
Format: Album ; 44 leaves : paper, ill., binding, 443 x 330 approx.; leaf 440 x 320
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1893 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 167 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 17th-18th centuries Description: An album of 40 Indian pictures with 20 calligraphic specimens.
Format: Album ; 42 leaves : paper, ill., 375 x 260 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 40 paintings:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1896 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 169 ; Title: Album of Indian pictures: Ragamala series
Date: 17th-18th centuries Description: An album of 36 Indian pictures in a Ragamala series
Format: Album ; 36 leaves : paper, ill., 315 x 225 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: 36 paintings
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1892 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 170 ; Title: Indian picture album : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 17th-18th centuries Description: 21 pictures and 17 calligraphic specimens
Format: Album (disbound) ; 21 leaves : paper, ill., disbound in box, sheets 365 x 265
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1895 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. a.2 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings, dating mostly from the 18th century, including a number of ragamala pictures : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 18th century
Description: An album of 16 Indian miniature paintings
Format: Album ; 16 leaves : paper, ill., 430 x 285 mm. (page)
Physical description: Decoration: 16 miniature paintings
Summary: Indian / Contents: ff. 2-11, Ragamala series featuring portrait of a patron
Provenance: Douce, Francis, 1757-1834; Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2387 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. b.1 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy, dating mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries, containing nature studies, genre scenes, and some Hindu devotional images : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 18th century Description: An album of 26 Indian pictures, with 14 calligraphic specimens
Format: Album ; 21 leaves : paper, ill., 375 x 270 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: 26 miniature paintings
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2384; S.C. 22014. ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. b.2 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings and calligraphy, dating mostly from the 18th century, principally ragamala pictures : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 18th century Description: An album of 53 Indian pictures, including Ragamala pictures and zenana scenes
Format: Album ; 55 leaves : paper, ill., 406 x 310 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: 53 miniature paintings
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: Douce, Francis, 1757-1834; Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2380 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Douce Or. b.3 ; Title: Album of Indian paintings, dating mostly from the 18th century, containing genre scenes with a few court pictures : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 18th century Description: An album of 32 Indian paintings, with 1 charcoal sketch and 3 calligraphic specimens
Format: Album (disbound) ; 35 leaves : paper, ill., 580 x 425 mm. (box)
Physical description: Decoration: 1 drawing and 32 miniature paintings.
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: Douce Bequest, 1834.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2383 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Misc. d.3 ; Title: Portraits of Indian rulers
Date: 18th century Description: Album of small watercolour portraits of 178 Indian rulers from Timur (Tamerlane) to Aurangzib. The paintings are allegedly 18th-century copies, made before 1737, of originals in the court at Delhi.
Format: Album ; : paper, ill., 220 x 150 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: 178 paintingsLayout:
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: With a letter from John Cleland (1710-1789) dated London, 8 July 1760, to Mr. Everard of Brasenose College (Oxford) describing the presentation of the book to Mr. Fraser in Surat; an inscription by Alexander Pope, dated 1737, on donating it to Bodleian Library
Record source and standard citations: Aufrecht, Sanskrit Cat., 854 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 173 ; Title: Indian picture album, c. 18th century, ostensibly of portraits of the Mughal emperors from the time of Timur, from the collection of Sir Gore Ouseley #House of Timur spine title : Link to a list of paintings in this album
Date: 18th century Description: An album of 34 leaves containing Indian paintings and calligraphy, with two lithographs inserted, and a manuscript introduction of 5 leaves (viii-xi) and other notes by Sir Gore Ouseley. Paintings numbered in the album following Western style of codex opening on right. The paintings
ostensibly depict
Format: Album ; 34 album leaves with additional material : paper, ill., binding 435 x 300 x 40; box 457 x 325 x 57
Physical description: Decoration: 34 paintings
Summary: Indian /
Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley on flyleaves at front and back.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1897 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 174 ; Title: Indian picture album, c. 18th century, containing Hindu religious scenes, love scenes, and animal pictures, from the collection of Sir Gore Ouseley
Date: 18th century Description: An album of 24 Indian paintings, several on Hindu religious themes, with specimens of Persian calligraphy.
Format: Album ; 24 leaves : paper, ill., binding 315 x 245 mm.
Physical description:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1898 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 14 ; Title: Drawings of the principal Hindoo deities, and of the principal sacred flowers offered at their shrines; with concise illustrations (pt. 1)
Malkin, William
Date: 19th century, dated 1831 Description: Album of pictures of Hindu deities and botanical illustrations, compiled in Bangalore, India, 1831, by Revd. William Malkin
Format: Album ; 84 leaves : paper, ill., 293 x 385 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 35 miniaturesLayout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project
record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc.15 ; Title: Drawings of the principal Hindoo deities, and of the principal sacred flowers offered at their shrines; with concise illustrations (pt. 2)
Malkin, William
Date: 19th century, dated 1831 Description: Album of pictures of Hindu deities and botanical illustrations, compiled in Bangalore, India, 1831, by Revd. William Malkin
Format: Album ; 109 leaves : paper, ill., 293 x 385 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 41 miniaturesLayout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 21 ; Title: Kalighat paintings
Date: 19th-20th century
Format: Album ; : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Layout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 22 ; Title: Kalighat paintings
Date: 19th-20th century
Format: Album ; : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Layout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 23 ; Title: Krishna playing the flute (micrographic drawing)
Date: undated Description: Drawing (with micrography) of Krishna playing the flute, attended by a female devotee. Ink with colour wash.
Format: ; 1 drawing : ink and wash on paper, 500 x 315 mm.
Physical description: Layout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Misc. c.16 ; Title: Album of Indian portraits and courting scenes
Date: undated Description: Album of court portraits, one identified as Aurangzeb, with a few scenes of lovers. Bound probably for a Western owner in the 19th century, using bright orange paper for many of the borders.
Format: Album ; 28 leaves : paper, ill., 310 x 260 mm.
Physical description: Layout:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 172 ; Title: Indian picture album
Date: undated Description: An album of 20 leaves containing 15 paintings, with calligraphic specimens and cut-paper work designs mounted in patterned-paper borders
Format: Album ; 20 leaves : paper, ill., covers 360 x 273; leaf 345 x 260
Physical description: Decoration: 15 paintings
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1899 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. b.1 ; Title: Indian picture album
Date: undated Description: Album of Indian paintings, including Ragamala scenes, and calligraphic specimens
Format: Album ; 39 leaves with interleavings : paper; ill., 428 x 290 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 38 miniatures
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Sansk. d.337(R) ; Title: Indian playing cards
Date: undated
Format: Playing cards ; : ,
Physical description:
Summary: Indian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Pali
Shelfmark: MS. Pali a.27 (R) ; Title: [Buddhist scriptures in Pali]
Date: undated Description: Parabeik or folding book of Buddhist texts in Pali
Format: Folding ms. ; 78 openings : paper, ill., 95 x 660 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 40 miniatures, each c. 190 x 220 mm.Layout: Written in 5 lines, per page (10 lines per opening), in one or two columns
Kham compressed
Summary: Pali / Contents: 1. [Vinayapitaka - Suttavibhanga - Parajika] -- 2. [Dighanikaya - Brahmajalasutta] -- 3. [Abhidhammamatika] -- 4. Sahassaneyya -- 5. Mahabuddhaguna -- 6. Mahabuddhagunavannana -- 7. Unhisavijaya
Provenance: Letter of gift to Mr. Thomson of Edinburgh [19th century]; Letter (in English) describing the contents of the manuscript from B. Clough, Ceylon, 1819.
Record source and standard citations: Filliozat, p. 12 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Persian
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 379 ; Title: Kitab-i-Samak 'Iyar (pt.1)
Ibn Abi al-Qasim Shirazi, Sadaqah
Date: 14th century, first half, c. 1330 Description: V.1 of Kitab i Samak Iyar
Format: Ms. codex ; 229 leaves : paper, ill., 310 x 220 (written area 250 x 152, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illustrations within text. Layout: Written in 27 long lines.Script: naskh
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Ouseley, 445-447. Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 442 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 380 ; Title: Kitab-i-Samak 'Iyar (pt.2)
Ibn Abi al-Qasim Shirazi, Sadaqah
Date: 14th century, first half, c. 1330 Description: V.2 of Kitab i Samak Iyar
Format: Ms. codex ; 220 leaves : paper, ill., 310 x 220 (written area 250 x 152, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illustrations within text. Layout: Written in 27 long lines.Script: naskh
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Ouseley, 445-447. Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 442 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 381 ; Title: Kitab-i-Samak 'Iyar (pt. 3)
Ibn Abi al-Qasim Shirazi, Sadaqah
Date: 14th century, first half, c. 1330 Description: V.3 of Kitab i Samak Iyar
Format: Ms. codex ; 335 leaves : paper, ill., 295 x 195 (written area 250 x 152, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illustrations within text. Layout: Written in 27 long lines.Script: naskh
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Ouseley, 445-447. Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 442 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 176 ; Title: Shahnama
Firdawsi
Date: 15th century, c. 1430 Description: Copy of the Shahnamah made for Ibrahim Sultan b. Shah Rukh, c. 1430.
Format: Ms. codex ; 468 leaves : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispieces, 47 full- and half-page miniatures, 5 drawingsLayout: Written in 4 columns of 31 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 501; Robinson, 81-132 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. c.4 ; Title: Shahnama
Firdawsi#?Abdallah bin Shaban bin Haidar alashtarjani
Date: 15th century, dated 1448 Description: Epic poem of the history of kings of Persia (Iran). Contains the
rare preface with biography of the author, Firdausi.
Format: ; 539 leaves, 4 columns, 25 lines : ,
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispieces; illuminated headings; full page miniatures
Script: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1977 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 325 ; Title: Shahnama
Firdawsi
Date: 15th century, dated 1449 Description: First half begins on fol. 9b; second half begins on fol. 305b with Luhrasp's reign
Format: Ms. codex ; 627 leaves : paper, ill., 340 x 220 (written area 270 x 135) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 64 miniatures.Layout: Written in 4 columns of 23 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian /
Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley, with MS addition: "& Grant Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Order of the Guelph". Spine label with gilt stamp of wild boar, ?Bacon?. Early 18th-century inscription on endleaf, "a present from Mgr. Solymaan"
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 493 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 140 ; Title: Rubaiyyat
Omar Khayyam
Date: 15th century, dated 1460 Description: 158 rubais of Omar Khayyam, arranged in alphabetical order.
Format: ; 42 leaves : paper,
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispiecesLayout: Written in 10 lines
Script: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 525 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 189 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Amir Khusrau
Amir Khusraw Dihlavi, ca. 1253-1325
Date: 15th century, dated 1463 [A.H. 867] Description: Collection of seven poems by Amir Khusrau, d. 1325 (A.H. 725)
Format: Ms. codex ; 192 leaves : paper, ill., 244 x 170 (written area 156 x 104) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispieces, fols. 2v, 38v, 82v, 110v, 156v; miniatures, fols. 1v, 2a, 191v, 192aLayout: Written in 4 columns of 25 linesScript: nastaliq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written at Shiraz, A.H. 867. Colophon: fol. 156a, fol. 191a. Contents: 1. The rising of the lights -- 2. Khusrau and Shirin -- 3. Laila and Majnun -- 4. Eight paradises -- 5. Mirror of Alexander -- 6. Spirit of lovers -- 7. Language of lovers
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 768 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 18 ; Title: Diwan-i-Mas'ud
Qummi, Mas'ud, d. 1485 or 6
Date: 15th century, dated 1481 (A.H. 886)
Format: ; 90 leaves : paper, ill., 205 a 102 (written area 120 x 45, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 3 miniatures, fols. 22a, 49a, 63bLayout: Written in 10 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 885 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 246 ; Title: Mant,iq al-t,ayr
Attar, Farid al-Din, d. ca. 1230
Date: 15th century, dated 1493 Description: "Conference of the birds", by the Iranian Sufi poet Attar, d. 1220.
Format: Ms. codex ; 172 leaves : paper, ill., 260 x 149 (written area 168 x 80) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations; 7 miniatures, fols. 25v, 45r, 52v, 63r, 96r, 124v, 150vLayout: Written in 2 columns of 15 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 628 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 14, fols. 109-167 ; Title: Diwan-i-Amir Saifi
Saifi, Yadgarbeg, d. 1465
Date: 15th century, second half, c. 1481 Description: Lyrical poems composed in the first half of the 15th century (A.D.)
Format: Ms. codex ; 59 leaves : paper, ill., 205 x 103 (written area 120 x 45, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated title page; 3 miniatures, fols. 113a, 145b, 159b.Layout: Written in 2 columns of 10 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 888 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 137 ; Title: Laila Majnun
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Date: 15th or 16th century Description: Nizami's poem of Layla and Majnun.
Format: Ms. codex ; 153 leaves : paper. ill., 260 x 170 (written area 150 x
80) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: Illuminations and miniatures. Frontispiece ff. 1b-2a, 9 miniatures, ff. 31b, 44b, 59a, 68a, 75a, 89b, 105a, 132b, 149b.Layout: Written in 2 columns of 15 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in ?1573 (A.H. ?981); colophon, f. 153a, damaged.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 605 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 19 ; Title: Khusraw va Shirin#Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi, d. 1520 or 1
Date: 16th century
Format: Ms. codex ; 95 leaves : paper, ill., 207 x 130 mm. (written area 120 x 75 mm., frame-ruled)
Physical description: Decoration: 5 miniatures, fols. 26a, 37b, 49a, 61b, 90aLayout: Written in 2 columns of 11 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1014 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Canonici Or. 122 ; Title: Intikhab i H)adikah
Sana‛i al-Ghaznavi, Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam, d. ca. 1150#‛Attar, Farid al-Din, d. ca. 1230
Date: 16th century, first half Description: Farid-aldin Attar's extracts from Sana'is Hadikah. 16th century.
Format: Ms. codex ; 61 leaves : paper, ill., 318 x 200 (written area 166 x 99, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece, 10 folios of miniatures (illuminations), and decorated margins in colours and goldLayout: Written in 2 columns of 10 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Date attribution from life of scribe.
Provenance: Matteo Luigi Canonici, Venice; bought by Bodleian Library, 1817
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2405 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 517 ; Title: Bustan
Sa‛di
Date: 16th century, first half, c. 1515-20 Description: First two pages illuminated; chapter headings on gold ground.
Format: Ms. codex ; 64 leaves : paper, ill., 245 x 165 (written area 150 x 97, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations on first two written pages; 3 miniatures, fols. 9b, 34a, 59b.Layout: Written in 4 columns of 17 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written c. 1520, date speculative: see Persian art of the book [Robinson and Gray], (1972), p. 16
Provenance: Marsh bequest, 1713. Purchased by Narcissus Marsh at the sale of Jacob Golius's library in Leiden, 1696. Ownership inscription of Christian Ravius, 1641, p. 419.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1983 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 192 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Nizami
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Date: 16th century, dated 1500-1501 [A.H. 907] Description: Nizami's five poetic stories, Makhzan al-Asrar, Khusrau u Shirin, Laila u Majnun, Haft Paikar, Sharaf-namah
Format: Ms. codex ; 346 leaves : paper, ill., 285 x 165 (written area 200 x 104) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illuminations, 42 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Colophon, fol. 345a Contents: 1. fol. 1v Makhzan al-Asrar. -- 2. fol. 32v Khusrau u Shirin. -- 3. fol. 101v Laila u Majnun. -- 4. fol. 158v Haft Paikar. -- 5. fol. 221v Sharaf-namah (pt. 1). -- 6. fol. 300v Iskandarnama (pt. 2)
Provenance: Elliott, John Bardoe; Engraved armorial bookplate of J.B.
Elliott.; inscriptions, fol. 1r
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 587 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. d.105 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Nizami
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 4
Date: 16th century, dated 1504 Description: Nizami's five poetic stories, Khusrau u Shirin, Laila u Majnun, Haft Paikar, Iskandar Nama, and Iqbal Nama
Format: ; 388 leaves : paper, ill., 275 x 160 (written area 180 x 100, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispiece on ff. 1b-2a; illuminated headings; 5 miniatures, fols. 12b, 37b, 45a, 51b, 295b.Layout: Written in 4 columns of 19 lines
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written 1504 [A.H. 909]; colophon, fol. 388a
Provenance: bought by the Bodleian Library from Sotheby's, 1957.
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Diwan-i-Maghribi
Date: 16th century, dated 1521 Description: Poems of Mulla Muhammad Shirin Maghribi
Format: Ms. codex ; not in Ethe; ff. 124? : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Decoration: 1 miniature; Layout:Script: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Contents: ff. 3v-6v margin-columns, ff. 7r-12r, dibaca in prose and Arabic poems; ff. 12v, ghazals, in alphbetical order; f. 100r, kasidas, tarji'bands, 1 mathnawi; f. 120r, ruba'is.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 859 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Diwan-i-K,asim-i-Anwar
Date: 16th century, dated 1526
Format: Ms. codex ; ?? : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Decoration: 3 miniaturesLayout:
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 863 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 26 ; Title: Diwan-i-Hafiz
Hafiz, 14th cent.
Date: 16th century, dated 1538
Format: Ms. codex ; 161 leaves : paper, ill., 221 x 125 (written area 158 x 90) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 4 miniatures
Script: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 21 ; Title: Mihr-u Mushtari
‘Assar Tabrizi, Muhammad, d. 1382 or 3
Date: 16th century, middle
Format: Ms. codex ; 216 leaves : paper, ill., 250 x 150 (155 x 82)
Physical description: Decorations: illuminations, 6 miniaturesLayout: Written in 2 columns of 12 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Undated
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 813; Robinson, 833-838 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 369 ; Title: Shahnama
Firdawsi
Date: 16th century, dated 1552
Format: Ms. codex ; ff. 601 : ill.,
Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 4 columns of 23 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in 1552 (A.H. 959)
Provenance: On fol. 1a, inscription: "Bought at Sir Elijah Impey's sale in London, May 21, 1810"
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 494 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 24 ; Title: Majalis al-ushshaq [The assemblies of lovers]
Sultan Husayn Mirza
Date: 16th century, dated 1552 Description: "The assemblies of lovers", 76 biographies of famous mystics and lovers.
Format: Ms. codex ; 195 leaves : paper, ill., 287 x 180 (181 x 110)
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 74 miniaturesLayout: Written in 15 long linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written 1552 [A.H. 959] Colophon, fol. 197a
Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1271; Robinson, 754-827 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 340 ; Title: Sadd-i-Iskandar
Alisher Navoii, 1441-1501
Date: 16th century, dated 1553 Description: Alexander's wall', the fifth mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii), composed 1485.
Format: Ms. codex ; 101 leaves : paper, ill., 326 x 205, bound to 335 x 215
mm.
Physical description: Decoration: gold patterned paper showing flower and animal designs; illuminated frontispiece; 5 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 20 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian /
Provenance: Sir Gore Ouseley: introductory notes on fols. iii-iv, dated Hall Barn Park February 1838.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2121 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 318 ; Title: Sab’ah Sayyarah
Alisher Navoii, 1441-1501
Date: 16th century, dated 1553 [A.H. 960] Description: The seven planets', the fourth mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii), composed 1484.
Format: Ms. codex ; 71 leaves : paper, ill., 333 x 215 (written area 220 x 134) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations; 11 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 20 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Written, 1553 [A.H. 960]; colophon, fol. 71a.
Provenance: Commissioned by Abu'l-Fath Yar Muhammad Bahadur Khan (name incorporated into architectural detail of miniatures). Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley on first flyleaf.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2119 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 1 ; Title: Kitab-i-Dastan
Date: 16th century, dated 1556 Description: Four tales: [1] -- [2] -- [3] -- [4]
Format: Ms. codex ; 171 leaves : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Decoration: frontispiece; 11 miniatures (paintings)Layout:Script: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 459 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 186 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Jami
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, dated 1563-1565 Description: Collection of five poems by Jami, d. 1492 (A.H. 898) in Harat.
Format: Ms. codex ; 230 leaves : paper, ill., 230 x 153 (written area 160 x 98) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 8 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 18 linesScript: nastaliq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written, 1: July 1565 [A.H. 972] -- 2. July 1565 [A.H. 972] -- 3. July-August, 1564 [A.H. 971] -- 4. October-November 1563 [A.H. 971] -- 5. July-August 1563 [A.H. 970] Colophons: fol. 29a, fol. 75a, fol. 111a, fol. 229a. Contents: 1. Tuhfat al-ahrar (fol. 2b) -- 2.Subhat al-abrar (fol. 30b) -- 3.Khiradnamah-i Iskandari (fol. 75b) -- 4.Layli u Majnun (fol. 112b) -- 5.Yusuf u Zulaykha (fol. 169b)
Provenance: Elliott, John Bardoe; Engraved armorial bookplate of J.B. Elliott.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 900 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Greaves 1 ; Title: Yusuf va Zulaykha
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, dated 1569 Description: The romance of Yusuf (Joseph) and Zulaykha (Zuleika), Potiphar's wife. Composed by Jami, c. 1470
Format: Ms. codex ; 154 leaves : paper, 245 x 145 mm. (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: 6 miniatures (paintings)Layout: Written in 2 columns of 14 lines
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 908 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 403 ; Title: Timurnama
Hatifi, d. 1520 or 1
Date: 16th century, second half Description: Epic poem recounting the life and victories of Timur (Tamerlane), composed by the poet Hatifi, d. 1520-1 (A.H. 927)
Format: Ms. codex ; 202 leaves : paper, ill., 232 x 130, bound to 250 x 140 (written area 147 x 75) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: frontispiece, 7 miniaturesLayout:Written in 2 columns of 12 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Written about 1576 [A.H. 983] ; Colophon, fol. 202a, shows signs of tampering.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1006 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 149 ; Title: Haft Aurang
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, c. 1570 Description: Collection of seven poems by Jami
Format: Ms. codex ; 297 leaves : paper, ill., 360 x 240 (written area 206 x 130, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations; 20 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nastaliq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Date attribution from life of scribe. Contents: 1. author's preface. -- 2. fol. 2, Silsilat al-dhahab. -- 3. Salaman was Absal ... TBC
Provenance: Elliott, John Bardoe.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 898 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. d.102 ; Title: Laila Majnun
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Date: 16th century, c. 1570 Description: Poem of Laila and Majnun, by Nizami
Format: Ms. codex ; 110 p. : paper, ill., 245 x 170 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 9 miniatures, pp. 27, 35, 41, 47, 53, 65, 66, 82, 105; illuminated frontispieceLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Provenance: James Atkinson, 1780-1852. Purchased by Bodleian Library, 1951.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2845 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 431 ; Title: Yusuf va Zulaykha
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, c. 1575 Description: Jami's poem of Yusuf and Zuleikha
Format: Ms. codex ; 175 leaves : paper, ill., 278 x 160 (written area 152 x 75) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 3 miniaturesLayout: 2 columns, 12 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written c. 1575, date speculative: see Persian art of the book [Robinson and Gray], (1972), p.21
Provenance: Marsh bequest, 1713. Purchased by Narcissus Marsh at the sale of Jacob Golius's library in Leiden, 1696. Ownership inscription of Christian Ravius, 1641, p. 419.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 905 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Khulas$a-i-Bustan
Sa‛di
Date: 16th century, c. 1581 Description: Extracts from the didactic poem the Bustan (Fruit Garden) of Sadi, 12th-century Persian poet
Format: Ms. portion ; : paper, ill., 253 x 147, bound to 265 x 160 (written area 180 x 104) mm.
Physical description:
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 10 lines and 3rd column of 24 lines
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 743 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Khusraw va Shirin
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Date: 16th century, c. 1581
Format: Ms. portion ; : paper, ill., 253 x 147, bound to 265 x 160 (written area 180 x 104) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Written in a margin-column of 24 lines
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 604 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Mihr u Mushtari and other poems [see additional entries below]
Date: 16th century, c. 1581
Format: Ms. codex ; 299 leaves : paper, ill., 253 x 147, bound to 265 x 160 (written area 180 x 104) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: 12 miniatures including double page frontispiece picture; illuminationsLayout: Various page formatsScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written at Shiraz, 1571[?] and 1581. Colophons, fols. 260a and 298b.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 604; 743; 812; 1034 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Nak$sh-i-badi‛
Ghazali Mashhadi, 1526 or 7-1572 or 3.
Date: 16th century, c. 1581
Format: Ms. portion ; : paper, ill., 253 x 147, bound to 265 x 160 (written area 180 x 104) mm.
Physical description: Layout: Portions written in 2 columns of 10 lines; portions written in 3 columns of 24 lines
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1034 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Mihr u Mushtari [The Sun and Jupiter]
Assar Tabrizi, Muhammad, d. 1382 or 3
Date: 16th century, dated 1581 Description: Mihr U Mushtari, "The sun and Jupiter", by Shamsaldin Muhammad Assar of Tabriz, composed in the 14th century
Format: Ms. portion ; : paper, ill., 253 x 147, bound to 265 x 160 (written area 180 x 104) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illuminations; 6 miniaturesLayout: Written in 2 columns of 10 lines.Script: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in 1582 (A.H. 990); colophon fol. 257b.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 812 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 254 ; Title: Baharistan
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, dated 1595 Description: Manuscript of poetic stories by Jami, commissioned by the emperor Akbar (1542-1605), with paintings by the Mughal court artists
Format: Ms. codex ; 67 leaves : paper, ill., 300 x 195 (written area 170 x 83) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece; 6 miniatures; marginal illustrationsLayout: Written in 1 column, 14 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Contents: 1. ff. iv-vii, Beharistan [introductory ms. notes] / Sir Gore Ouseley. -- 2. ff. 1-67, Baharistan / Jami
Provenance: commissioned by Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605; Shahjahan, Emperor of India, ca. 1592-1666; autograph of Shah Jehan on fol. 1r; Ouseley, Gore, Sir, 1770-1844; Ownership inscription of Shahjahan on fol. 1r; ownership inscription (in Persian) of Sir Gore Ouseley on fol. 1r.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 963 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 418 ; Title: Yusuf va Zulaykha
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, dated 1595 Description: The romance of Yusuf (Joseph) and Zulaykha (Zuleika), Potiphar's wife. Composed by Jami, c. 1470
Format: Ms. codex ; 64 leaves : paper, ill., 300 x 195 (written area 223 x 135, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 13 miniatures, fols. 12a, 13b. 17b, 20b, 24b, 27b, 33a, 36b, 37b, 42b, 47a, 56a, 59a.Layout: Written in 4 columns of 17 lines
Summary: Persian /
Provenance: Commissioned by Shirdilkhan Fakhr alisfahani alkacari.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 910 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 337 ; Title: Silsilat al-dhahab
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 16th century, dated 1596 Description: Silsilat-aldhahab of Jami, in three books. Book 1 begins on fol. 1v, Book 2 on fol. 63v, Book 3 on fol. 90v
Format: Ms. codex ; 106 leaves : paper, ill., 300 x 195 (written area 228 x 140) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 4 miniatures; illuminated frontispiece on the first two pages; coloured and gilt chapter headings; some pages with gilt patternsLayout: Written in 4 columns of 17 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written, 1596 [A.H. 1004]
Provenance: John Bardoe Elliott.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 928 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. c.39 ; Title: Bustan
Sa‛di
Date: 16th century, c. 1590-1600
Format: Ms. codex ; 55 leaves : paper; ill., 310 x 200 (written area 182 x 103, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 5 miniatures (paintings); fols. 6a, 16b, 34b, 40a, 48aLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 lines
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: [none] ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 316 ; Title: Kulliyat
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Date: 17th century, c. 1600 Description: Safavid (16th-century) period manuscript of Nizami's five poetic stories,Khusrau u Shirin, Laila u Majnun, Haft Paikar, Iskandar-namah and Khirad-namah
Format: Ms. codex ; 384 leaves : paper, ill., 297 x 185 (written area 188 x 115, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations and miniatures. Illuminated double title-page, illuminated headings (fols. 33b, 119b, 178b, 246b, 336b), and 4 miniatures (paintings) (fols. 57a, 81b, 199b, 276b)Layout: Written in 4 columns of 19 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Contents: 1. ff. 33b-118a Khusrau u Shirin -- 2. ff. 119b-177b Layla u Majnun -- 3. ff. 178b-244b Haft Paikar -- 4. ff. 246b-335a Iskandarnama -- 5. ff. 336b-384a Khiradnama
Provenance: On fol. 1a, ownership inscription: "Sir Wm. Ouseley".
Record source and standard citations: Robinson, Persian paintings, p. 145 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 344 ; Title: Shahnama
Firdawsi
Date: 17th century, dated 1601
Format: Ms. codex ; ff. 579 : ill., 400 x 255 (written area 248 x 150, frame ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: Layout: Written in 4 columns of 26 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in 1601 (A.H. 1010); colophon fol. 579.
Record source and standard citations: Ouseley, 2. Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 496 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. d.43 ; Title: Gulistan
Sa‛di
Date: 17th century, dated 1640 Description:
Format: Ms. codex ; 166 leaves : paper, ill., 230 x 144; 152 x 82
Physical description: Decoration: 51 miniatures; marginal illustrations; calligraphyLayout: Written in 13 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2585 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 317 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Nizami
Nizami Ganjavi, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3
Date: 17th century, dated 1646
Format: Ms. codex ; 317 leaves : paper, ill., 268 x 160 (written area 185 x 100, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: Illuminations and miniatures. Illuminated double title-pages (ff. 1b, 2a; 31b, 32a; 195b; 196a; 165b, 166a; 255b, 256a) and 8 miniatures (fols. 37b, 41a, 42b, 75b, 278b, 285a, 288a, 295a)Layout: Written in 4 columns of 20 lines
Script: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in 1646 (A.H. 1056); colophons on fol. 252b and 317b.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 592 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Hyde 10 ; Title: Yusuf va Zulaykha
Jami, 1414-1492
Date: 17th century, dated 1683 Description: Jami's poem of Yusuf and Zuleikha
Format: Ms. codex ; 175 leaves : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 3 miniaturesLayout: Written in 2 columns of 12 lines.Script: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in 1683 (A.H. 1094)
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 915 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 163 ; Title: Diwan-i-Hafiz
Hafiz, 14th cent.
Date: 17th century, dated 1690 [A.H. 1101 or 1001] Description: Collection of poems by Muhammad Shams-aldin Hafiz, d. 1389 (A.H. 791) at Shiraz.
Format: Ms. codex ; 138 leaves : paper, ill., 230 x 136 (written area 160 x 85) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 4 miniaturesLayout: Written in 2 columns of 15 linesScript: nastaliq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written in A.H. 1001 or 1101. Colophon: fol. 138r
Contents: first portion of Gulandam's preface; Ghazals; 1 tarji'band; 1 kasidah; 1 muhammas; mathanqiyyat and kit'as, different from those in other MS.S; ruba'is.
Provenance: Elliott, John Bardoe; Engraved armorial bookplate of J.B. Elliott.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 828 ;
Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 14, fols. 1-108 ; Title: K,iran-alsa'dain
Amir Khusraw Dihlavi,ca. 1253-1325
Date: 17th century, second half, dated ?1691 Description: Historical poem describing an episode in the Mughal invasions of India, composed by the 13th-century poet Amir Khusrau.
Format: Ms. codex ; 108 leaves : paper, 213 x 105 (written area 165 x 72) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: none.Layout: Written in 2 columns of 19 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written c. 1691/ A.H. 1102; colophon, fol. 108a.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 773 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 14, fols.168-239 ; Title: [Diwan containing mathnawis and ruba'is]
Date: 18th century Description: Diwan (collection of poetry), composed probably in the early 18th century. Contents: 1. Minhaj-almi'raj -- 2. Da'wat al-shikin -- 3. Gulzar-i-sa'adat -- 4. Thamarat-alhijab -- 5. Husn-i-Ittfak -- 6. Maimanatnama -- 7. Ruba'is -- 8. Jahannuma -- 9. Mukatta'at.
Format: Ms. codex ; 72 leaves : paper, 205 x 110 (written area 165 x 80) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: none.Layout: Written in 2 columns of 14 lines and border column of 22 lines.Script: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Provenance: Ownership inscription fol. 168a, "Wm. Ouseley, Isfahan 1811"
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1175 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 297 ; Title: Taswirhai Sultan Sanjar Waghairah [picture album]
Date: 19th century, dated 1811
Description: Twelve pictures collected by Sir W. Ouseley in 1811, at Isfahan, Shiraz, Kashan; containing portraits of Hafiz, Sa'di, Shah Ismail, Sultan Sanjar.
Format: Album ; 12 pictures : paper, ill., 300 x 230 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 12 miniature paintings
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1891 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 231 ; Title: Laila u Majnun
Maktabi Shirazi, d. 1510 or 11
Date: 19th century, dated 1822 Description: A mathnawi (poem) of the story of Laila and Majnun, by Mulla Maktabi of Shiraz, composed in 1490.
Format: Ms. codex ; 100 leaves : paper, ill., 197 x 120 (written area 134 x 69) mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illuminations; miniatures.Layout: Written in 2 columns of 11 linesScript: Shikasta
Summary: Persian / Origin: Written at Shiraz, 1822. Inscription by J.B. Elliott, fol. i recto.
Provenance: Elliott, John Bardoe; Engraved armorial bookplate of J.B. Elliott.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 893 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. a.2(1) ; Title: [Letter from Nasir al-Din Shah to Shafi'khan]
Nasir al-Din Shah,Shah of Iran, 1831-1896
Date: 19th century, dated 1852
Format: ; : ,
Physical description:
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2394-
5 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 327 ; Title: Shahinshahnama
Qajar, Fath 'Ali Shah, Shah of Iran, d. 1834
Date: 19th century, dated c. 1812
Format: Ms. codex ; 449 leaves : paper, ill., 390 x 280 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 42 miniaturesLayout:Script: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian /
Provenance: John Bardoe Elliott.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 520 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Whinfield 33 ; Title: Rubaiyyat
Omar Khayyam
Date: 19th century, dated c. 1856 Description: Edward Fitzgerald's manuscript of the copy made by E.B. Cowell of MS.. Ouseley 140
Format: Ms. codex ; 22 leaves : paper,
Physical description: 20 linesEuropean hand
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2548 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Fraser 73 ; Title: Kulliyyat-i-Sa‘di [portion]
Sa‛di
Date: undated Description: The collected works of Muslih-aldin Sa‘di (c.1189-c.1292).
Format: Ms. codex ; 177 leaves : paper, 237 x 145 (written area 137 x 75,
frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 2 miniatures: fols. 1b, 2aLayout: Written in 2 columns of 19 lines; margin column, 12 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 687 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 14 ; Title: [Collection of Persian poetry]
Date: undated Description: Composite manuscript in three sections, containing treasures of Persian poetry from the 13th to 18th centuries A.D.
Format: Ms. composite codex ; 239 leaves : ,
Physical description: Layout: Various page formatsScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Ouseley, 88. ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 177 ; Title: Diwan-i-Khak,an
Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, Shah of Iran, d. 1834
Date: undated Description: Diwan (collection of poetry) by Khakan, i.e. Fath Ali Shah of Persia
Format: ; 110 leaves : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Decoration: illustrations on binding; illuminated frontispieces; marginal decorationsLayout: Written in 2 columns of 12 linesScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian / Contents: 1. Dibaca in prose -- 2. Kasidas -- 3. Ghazals -- 4. Various short poems -- 5. Tarji'bands -- 6. Mathnawis -- 7. Further short poems -- 8. Tarkibbands -- 9. Ruba'is -- 10. Prose conclusion
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 1201 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. a.2(2) ; Title: [Portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah]
Muhammad Hasan Afshar
Date: undated
Format:
Physical description:
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2394-5 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Pers. c.39* ; Title:
Date: undated
Format:
Physical description:
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Seld. Super. 98 ; Title: Diwan-i-Shahi
Amir Shahi Sabzavari, Aq Malik, d. 1453.
Date: undated Description: Lyrical poems composed in the early 15th century A.D., by Shahi.
Format: Ms. codex ; 87 leaves : paper, ill., 172 x 100 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: double page frontispiece on fols. 1b, 2a; illuminationsLayout: Written in 12 slanting lines on each pageScript: nasta‘liq
Summary: Persian /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 878 ;
Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Sanskrit
Shelfmark: MS. Sansk. a.7(R) ; Title: Tripitaka. Sutrapitaka. Prajnaparamita. Astasahasrika
Date: 11th century, dated 1095 Description: The canonical work of Mahayana Buddhism, the Astrasahasrika Prajnaparamita, in 8000 verses.
Format: Palm-leaf manuscript ; 188 leaves : palm leaf, ill., 60 x 550
Physical description: 6 miniatures, figurative decorations on the inner and outer boardsLayout: Written in 3 columns of 6 linesScript: Kutila
Summary: Sanskrit /
Record source and standard citations: Aufrecht, Sanskrit Cat., 1428 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Sansk. e.21(R) ; Title: Tatha gata jnana stuti gatha
Date: 12th century Description: A collection of verses on the Buddha
Format: ; 23 leaves : palm leaf, 40 x 195 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 6 illuminations in the text, paintings on inner boardLayout: Written in 2 columns of 5 lines
Summary: Sanskrit /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Hodgson 8 (R) ; Title: Pancarakşa [with fragment of Usnisavijayadharani]
Date: 12th-14th centuries Description: Nepalese Sanskrit manuscript of the Pancarakşa, five collections of charms for warding off evil, with several small fragments including the Usnisavijayadharani, probably 14th century.
Format: Palm-leaf manuscript ; : palm-leaf, 45 x 270 (leaf)
Physical description: Decoration: paintings on inside of upper and lower boardsLayout: 2 columns of 6 lines
Summary: Sanskrit / Contents: 1. ff. 1-132br, Pancarakşa, 12th century? -- 2. ff. 132bv-134v, [Sanskrit fragment, 17th century] -- 3. 135-137, Usnisavijayadharani, 14th century? -- 4. ff. 132a-138, Fragments in the handwriting of Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) -- 5. f. 139, Hindu and Devanagari writing
Provenance: Given by B.H. Hodgson to the Bodleian Library in 1837
Record source and standard citations: Winternitz. 1447 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Zend. E 1 ; Title: Yacna
Date: 15th century, dated 1450 Description: Bactrian text of the Zoroastrian scripture, the Yasna, with Neriosengh's Sanskrit translation.
Format: ; 263 leaves : paper,
Physical description:
Summary: Pahlavi - Sanskrit /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2399; Aufrecht, Sanskrit Cat., 1611 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Sansk. e.92(R) ; Title: Mahabharata
Date: 19th century, dated 1802 Description: Complete text of the Mahabarata, the epic poem of Hindu mythology
Format: Ms. roll ; : , 73 m.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminationsLayout:Script: devanagari
Summary: Sanskrit / Origin: Written 1802. Colophon at end of Bhis#maparvan section, Sam#vat 1859 (=A.D. 1802)
Provenance: Acquired by Bodleian Library 1895
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Sansk. d.14 ; Title: Bakhshali
Date: undated, see notes Description: Birch-bark manuscript, discovered in 1881, of an early Indian mathematical work composed about 400 A.D.
Format: Birch-bark manuscript ; 70 leaves : birch bark, ill., 170 x 105 mm. approx.
Physical description: Decoration: diagrams
Script: Sarada
Summary: Sanskrit /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Sansk 72 ; Title: Shikshapatri
Date: undated
Format: ; : paper,
Physical description: Layout:
Summary: Sanskrit - Gujerati /
Record source and standard citations: ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Tibetan
Shelfmark: MS. Tibet a.24 (R) ; Title: Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum
Date: 18th century, second half Description: First volume from a 33-volume-set of the "Collected Tantras of the Rnying ma School" (Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum) compiled in honour of Kah thog Rig 'dzin tshe dbang nor bu (1698-1755) in the second half of the 18th century.
Format: Ms. codex ; 302 leaves : paper, 120 x 570 (written area 63 x 375) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 3 miniature paintings on upper cover; 2 miniature paintings on lower coversLayout: Majority of text written in 7 lines.dbu can
Summary: Tibetan /
References: Cathy Cantwell (2002). "Distinctive features of the Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang not bu (Waddell) edition of the Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum." In: H. Eimer & D. Germano, The many canons of Tibetan Buddhism. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; 2/10) Leiden: Brill, pp. 359-376; Cathy Cantwell, Rob Mayer & Michael Fisher (2003). "The Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu edition of the rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum: an illustrated inventory." The Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu Edition of the rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum; Sam van Schaik (2000). "A catalogue of the first volume of the Waddell manuscript rNying ma rgyud 'bum." Tibet Journal, 25 (1), pp. 27-50. Provenance: This volume was brought to England by Lt.-Col. Lawrence A. Waddell (1854-1938), a former Professor of Chemistry and Pathology in the Calcutta Medical College and Assistant Sanitary Commissioner under the Government of India. Waddell acted as Chief Medical Officer to the infamous Younghusband expedition to Central Tibet (1903-1904) in the course of which he obtained the manuscript. The Bodleian acquired it by purchase from Sotheby’s on the 17th March 1909. Most of the volumes from the 33-volume-set are kept in the British Library, London.
Record source and standard citations: ; Ralf Kramer (Bodleian Library, 2005)
Turkish
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 287 ; Title: H$airat-alabrar
Alisher Navoii, 1441-1501
Date: 15th century, dated 1485 Description: The amazement of the pious', the first mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii) forming his Khamsah (quintet), composed 1483.
Format: Ms. codex ; 57 leaves : paper, ill., 272 x 185 (written area 165 x 115) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminations, 4 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Turkish / Origin: Written, 1485 [A.H. 890], for the library of Sultan Badi-alzaman Bahadurkhan. Colophon, fol. 57a.
Provenance: Ouseley, Gore, Sir, 1770-1844; engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2116 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 317 ; Title: Sab’ah Sayyarah
Alisher Navoii, 1441-1501
Date: 15th century, dated 1485 Description: The seven planets', the fourth mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii), composed 1484.
Format: Ms. codex ; 65 leaves : paper, ill., 270 x 185 (written area 165 x 113) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispiece, 2 miniaturesLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Turkish / Origin: Written, 1485 [A.H. 890], for the library of Sultan Badi-alzaman Bahadurkhan.
Provenance: engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley, with MS addition: "Grand Cross of the Guelph"
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2118 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 339 ; Title: Sadd-i-Iskandar
Alisher Navoii, 1441-1501
Date: 15th century, dated 1485 Description: Alexander's wall', the fifth mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii), composed 1485.
Format: Ms. codex ; 97 leaves : paper, ill., 276 x 180 mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 4 miniatures; margins coloured and sprinkled with goldLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Turkish / Origin: Written, 1485 [A.H. 890], for the library of Sultan Badi-alzaman Bahadurkhan.
Provenance: Sir Gore Ouseley: introductory notes on fols. iv-v, dated Hall Barn Park 1838. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley on first and last flyleaves.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2120 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 408 ; Title: Farhad u Shirin
Alisher Navoii, 1441-1501
Date: 15th century, dated 1485 [A.H. 890] Description: Farhad and Shirin', the second mathnawi of Nawai's (Alisher
Navoii's) Khamsah (quintet), composed 1484
Format: Ms. codex ; 78 leaves : paper, ill., 271 x 183 (written area 158 x 107) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispiece, 1 miniatureLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq
Summary: Turkish / Origin: Written, 1485 [A.H. 890], for the library of Sultan Badi-alzaman Bahadurkhan.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley inside front and back covers. MS. note by Sir Gore Ouseley, dated Hall Barn Park, 1838, on f. vb from front.
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2117. SC 25150 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Hunt. 598 ; Title: Bakhtiar Nameh
Date: 15th century, c. 1435
Format: Ms. codex ; 148 leaves : paper, 252 x 165 mm.
Physical description: Decorations: illuminated frontispieceLayout: Written in 15 long lines
Summary: Uigur /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 2085 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Diwan-i-H,afiz
Date: 16th century, dated 1521
Format: Ms. codex ; ?? : paper, ill.,
Physical description: Layout:
Summary: /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 816 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.
Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Collection of poems
Date: undated
Format: Ms. codex ; 318 leaves : paper, ill., 310 x 190 (written area 245 x 135, frame-ruled) mm.
Physical description: Decoration: 11 miniatures; fols. 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 12a, 148b, 149a, 198a, 318a, 318b, 319a
Summary: /
Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 816, 859, 863 ; Oriental Surrogates Project record.