yazma eserler İngiliz kütüphanesi

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".


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


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


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:


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 /



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)


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)


Summary: Arabic /


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?


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



Summary: Arabic /


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.


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



Summary: Arabic /


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.


Physical description: Layout: Written in 28 and 29 lines

Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophon fol. 176a (second scribe), 839 A.H.


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:


Physical description: Layout: Written in 22 and 23 long lines, with other layouts of grids of verses

Summary: Arabic / Origin: Colophon, fol. 25a


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,


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 : ,


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)


Summary: Arabic /


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 /


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.


Summary: Arabic /


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.


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)


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)


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 /


Shelfmark: MS. Hunt. 117 ; Title: Commentary on Mishnah Zeraim


Date: 12th century, c. 1165 Description: Autograph manuscript of Maimonides' Commentary on Mishnah Zeraim.


Physical description: Decoration:Layout: Written in 31 long linesScript: Sephardic semi-cursive

Summary: Judeo-Arabic /


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


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



Summary: Hebrew /


Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 1, 2 ; Title: [Fragment of a sermon in praise of the Levite] ... [etc.]

Date: undated



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]


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 ;


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 /


Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 39-46 ; Title: [Fragment of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]


Date: undated



Summary: Hebrew /




Date: undated



Layout: Written in 18 long lines

Summary: Hebrew /




Date: undated



Summary: Hebrew /


Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 63-78 ; Title: [Commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]


Date: undated



Summary: Hebrew /


Shelfmark: MS. Heb. d.32, fols. 79-100 ; Title: [Arabic commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah]

Date: undated



Summary: Hebrew /


Shelfmark: MS. Heb. e.62 ; Title: [Fragment of Ecclesiastes, chapter xl.9-xlix.11]

Date: undated

Format: ; 9 leaves : paper, 192 x 172 (leaf)


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.


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.


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 /


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)


Summary: Indian /




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 /


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 /


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



Summary: Indian /



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 /


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)


Summary: Indian / Contents: ff. 2-11, Ragamala series featuring portrait of a patron



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



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



Summary: Indian /



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.


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


Summary: Indian /

Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley on flyleaves at front and back.


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.


Summary: Indian /


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


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



Summary: Indian /


Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 21 ; Title: Kalighat paintings

Date: 19th-20th century

Format: Album ; : paper, ill.,

Physical description: Layout:

Summary: Indian /


Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Misc. 22 ; Title: Kalighat paintings

Date: 19th-20th century

Format: Album ; : paper, ill.,


Summary: Indian /


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.


Summary: Indian /


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.



Summary: Indian /


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


Summary: Indian /


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.


Summary: Indian /


Shelfmark: MS. Sansk. d.337(R) ; Title: Indian playing cards

Date: undated

Format: Playing cards ; : ,


Summary: Indian /


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


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)





Summary: Persian /


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 381 ; Title: Kitab-i-Samak 'Iyar (pt. 3)





Summary: Persian /


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 /


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


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"


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 140 ; Title: Rubaiyyat

Omar Khayyam

Date: 15th century, dated 1460 Description: 158 rubais of Omar Khayyam, arranged in alphabetical order.


Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispiecesLayout: Written in 10 lines

Script: nasta‘liq

Summary: Persian /


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)


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


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 /


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.


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 /


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.)


Physical description: Decoration: illuminated title page; 3 miniatures, fols. 113a, 145b, 159b.Layout: Written in 2 columns of 10 linesScript: nasta‘liq

Summary: Persian /


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.


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 /


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.


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


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.


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



Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 192 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Nizami


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


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


Shelfmark: MS. Pers. d.105 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Nizami


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.


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Diwan-i-K,asim-i-Anwar


Format: Ms. codex ; ?? : paper, ill.,


Summary: Persian /


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 26 ; Title: Diwan-i-Hafiz

Hafiz, 14th cent.




Script: nasta‘liq

Summary: Persian /


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


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 369 ; Title: Shahnama

Firdawsi


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"


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.


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 318 ; Title: Sab’ah Sayyarah


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.


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 1 ; Title: Kitab-i-Dastan

Date: 16th century, dated 1556 Description: Four tales: [1] -- [2] -- [3] -- [4]


Physical description: Decoration: frontispiece; 11 miniatures (paintings)Layout:Script: nasta'liq

Summary: Persian /


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.


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.


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 /


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 149 ; Title: Haft Aurang

Jami, 1414-1492

Date: 16th century, c. 1570 Description: Collection of seven poems by Jami


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Pers. d.102 ; Title: Laila Majnun


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Marsh 431 ; Title: Yusuf va Zulaykha

Jami, 1414-1492

Date: 16th century, c. 1575 Description: Jami's poem of Yusuf and Zuleikha


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



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.


Layout: Written in 2 columns of 10 lines and 3rd column of 24 lines

Summary: Persian /


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Khusraw va Shirin


Date: 16th century, c. 1581


Physical description: Layout: Written in a margin-column of 24 lines

Summary: Persian /


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 239 ; Title: Mihr u Mushtari and other poems [see additional entries below]


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.



Physical description: Layout: Portions written in 2 columns of 10 lines; portions written in 3 columns of 24 lines

Summary: Persian /


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


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.


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


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.


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


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.


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


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.


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


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


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


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 /


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 317 ; Title: Khamsa-i-Nizami




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.


Shelfmark: MS. Hyde 10 ; Title: Yusuf va Zulaykha

Jami, 1414-1492

Date: 17th century, dated 1683 Description: Jami's poem of Yusuf and Zuleikha


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)


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.


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.


Record source and standard citations: Bodleian Persian [etc.] Cat., 828 ;


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.


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.


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.


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"


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley 297 ; Title: Taswirhai Sultan Sanjar Waghairah [picture album]


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.


Summary: Persian /


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.


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.



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


Format: ; : ,


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


Physical description: Decoration: 42 miniaturesLayout:Script: nasta'liq

Summary: Persian /

Provenance: John Bardoe Elliott.


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 /


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 /


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


Shelfmark: MS. Pers. a.2(2) ; Title: [Portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah]

Muhammad Hasan Afshar

Date: undated

Format:


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:


Summary: Persian /


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.


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 ;


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 /


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.



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


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 /


Shelfmark: MS. Ind. Inst. Sansk 72 ; Title: Shikshapatri

Date: undated

Format: ; : paper,


Summary: Sanskrit - Gujerati /


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.


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


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.


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 317 ; Title: Sab’ah Sayyarah


Date: 15th century, dated 1485 Description: The seven planets', the fourth mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii), composed 1484.


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"


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 339 ; Title: Sadd-i-Iskandar


Date: 15th century, dated 1485 Description: Alexander's wall', the fifth mathnawi of the Khamsah (quintet) of Nawa'i (Alisher Navoii), composed 1485.


Physical description: Decoration: 4 miniatures; margins coloured and sprinkled with goldLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq


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.


Shelfmark: MS. Elliott 408 ; Title: Farhad u Shirin


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


Physical description: Decoration: illuminated frontispiece, 1 miniatureLayout: Written in 4 columns of 21 linesScript: nasta'liq


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


Format: Ms. codex ; 148 leaves : paper, 252 x 165 mm.

Physical description: Decorations: illuminated frontispieceLayout: Written in 15 long lines

Summary: Uigur /


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Diwan-i-H,afiz


Format: Ms. codex ; ?? : paper, ill.,


Summary: /


Shelfmark: MS. Ouseley Add. 175 ; Title: Collection of poems

Date: undated


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.

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