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Ouseley, William, 1767-1842

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  • 1 copy of Qiṣṣah-ʼi chahār darvīsh by Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 221

  • A general history from beginning to A.H. 658= A.D. 1259, when it was composed by the author — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 66, 67

  • 1 copy of Muntakhab-i Shāhnāmah by Firdawsī — Multiple dates; Pūrbanah MS. Ouseley 222

  • 1 copy of Tuḥfat al-ʻIrāqayn by Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, ca. 1126-1198 or 9 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 69

  • 1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 316

  • A copy of Najāt's mathnawī on wrestling, together with selections from his Dīwān. MS. Ouseley 223

  • A treasury copy of Nizārī Quhistānī's Dastūrnāmah. — Multiple dates; Shiraz. MS. Ouseley 131

  • A copy of Makhzan-i maʻnā by Khwājah Masʻūd of Qumm. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 7

  • 1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 317

  • A composite manuscript containing Zoroastrian texts, a treatise on physiognomy ascribed to Plato, poems by Asīr, a Pahlavi glossary, a translation of part of the Mahabharata, and a treatise on music. MS. Ouseley 225

  • A composite manuscript containing 3 works; a Persian Qaṣīdah, a Pahlavi Glossary, and a copy of Jāmī's Tuḥfat al-aḥrār. MS. Ouseley 132

  • A composite manuscript containing works by Qudsī Mashhadī. MS. Ouseley 70

  • 1 copy of Muntakhab al-lughāt by ʻAbd al-Rashīd ibn ʻAbd al-Ghafūr Tattavī, fl. 1653 MS. Ouseley 319

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Bīdil of Patna. MS. Ouseley 227

  • A copy of Badīʻ al-Dīn Minūchihr Tabrīzī's Dilsūznāmah. — Multiple dates; Edirne MS. Ouseley 133

  • 1 copy of A tale MS. Ouseley 72

  • 1 copy of Mas̲navī by — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 32

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Nādirī by Mahdī Khān Astarābādī, fl. 1733-1759 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 228

  • 1 copy of Qawāʻid al-furs — 1735 MS. Ouseley 134

  • Taskīn Shīrāzī, fl. 1775 تسكين بن يعقوب MS. Ouseley 73

  • 1 copy of al-Ṣurāḥ fī al-lughah by Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 13th cent. MS. Ouseley 321

  • 1 copy of Nuzhat al-qulūb by Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, fl. 1330-1340 MS. Ouseley 229

  • A copy of Jāmī's Lawāʼiḥ. MS. Ouseley 137

  • The second part of Jāmī's First Dīvān. MS. Ouseley 74-75

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Nādirī by Mahdī Khān Astarābādī, fl. 1733-1759 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 322

  • 1 copy of Divān-i ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ al-Jabalī MS. Ouseley 23

  • A copy of Bayānī's Muʼnis al-aḥbāb. MS. Ouseley 138

  • An illustrated copy of Jāmī's Yūsuf u Zulaykhā. — Multiple dates; Shiraz. MS. Ouseley 77

  • 1 copy of Ẓafar′nāmah by Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, d. 1454 MS. Ouseley 323, 324

  • 1 copy of Nuzhat al-qulūb by Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, fl. 1330-1340 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 230

  • A collection of 3 poetical works in Persian. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 14

  • 1 copy of A work of general history MS. Ouseley 83,84

  • 1 copy of Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī (Extract) by Minhāj Sirāj Jūzjānī, b. 1193 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 325

  • 2 works by anonymous authors on the subject of Tales MS. Ouseley 231

  • 1 copy of Rubāʻīyāt-i Ḥakīm ʻUmar Khayyām by Omar Khayyam — Multiple dates; Shīrāz MS. Ouseley 140

  • 1 copy of Ṭūṭī′nāmah by Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, d. 1350 MS. Ouseley 85, 86

  • A copy of Amīr Khusraw's mathnawī Nuh sipihr. MS. Ouseley 33

  • 1 copy of Aḥsan al-tawārīkh by Ḥasan Rūmlū, b. ca. 1531 MS. Ouseley 232

  • A selection of quatrains by Bābā Afz̤al. — Multiple dates; Shiraz. MS. Ouseley 141

  • 3 works by 2 authors on the subjects of India and Mogul Empire MS. Ouseley 330

  • 4 works by 2 authors on the subject of Tales — 1797 MS. Ouseley 87

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. MS. Ouseley 142

  • 1 copy of Bahār-i dānish by ʻInāyat Allāh, d. ca. 1671 MS. Ouseley 233

  • 1 copy of Rawḍat al-ṣafā by Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 331-337

  • A work on Islamic Law, a fragment of the Gulistān, and two Mathnawīs. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 88

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. — Multiple dates; Harāt. MS. Ouseley 144

  • A copy of the Gulistān of Shaykh Saʻdī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 234

  • 1 copy of Rawḍat al-ṣafā by Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 338

  • A copy of Hātifī's Laylī u Majnūn. — Jahāngīrnagar. MS. Ouseley 89

  • A copy of Amīr Khusraw's Khiḍrkhān u Duwal Rānī. MS. Ouseley 145

  • A copy of the Khamsah of Ashraf. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 237

  • 1 copy of Tārīkh-i Alfī by Tattavī, Aḥmad, d. 1588 MS. Ouseley 339-341

  • 1 copy of Niẓām al-tawārīkh by Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, d. 1286? MS. Ouseley 9

  • Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, ca. 1692- ca. 1766 محمد علي جيلاني حزين — Multiple dates; Muḥammadābād, Banāras. MS. Ouseley 24

  • A selection from the Dīwān of Ṣāʼib of Tabrīz. — Multiple dates; Bengal MS. Ouseley 34

  • 1 copy of A Memoir by Bāfqī, Muḥammad Mufīd ibn Maḥmūd, 17th cent. MS. Ouseley 90

  • A copy of Vaḥshī Bāfiqī's Farhād va-Shīrīn. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 147

  • 1 copy of Zayn al-akhbār by Gardīzī, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Z̤aḥḥāk, 11th cent. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 240

  • 1 copy of Ṣubḥ-i Ṣādiq by Sādiq Isfahānī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Sạliḥ, 1609 or 10-1650 or 51 — Multiple dates; Allāhābād MS. Ouseley 342

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 148

  • A composite manuscript containing an Urdu grammar in English, a collection of tales in Urdu, and the Persian Dīwān of the poet Āftāb. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 94

  • 1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 344

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ by Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 — 1666 MS. Ouseley 241

  • 5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Lapidaries, Precious stones, Social life and customs, India, Mogul Empire, Iran, and Physiognomy MS. Ouseley 15

  • 22 works by 11 authors — 1634 MS. Ouseley 95

  • 1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 345

  • 1 copy of Alf laylah wa-laylah MS. Ouseley 242

  • A copy of Jāmī's Subḥat al-abrār. MS. Ouseley 150

  • 1 copy of al-Nuzhah [Nuzhat al-ḥussāb] fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb by Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, d. 1412 MS. Ouseley 96

  • 1 copy of Lubb al-tawārīkh-i Hind by Bindrabān, son of Raī Bhārāmal — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 35

  • 1 copy of Kīmiyā-yi saʻādat by Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 — 1725 MS. Ouseley 246

  • A collection of versified tales and elegies on the death of Imam Ḥusayn. MS. Ouseley 152

  • 1 copy of Tuḥfat al-ʻajāʼib wa-ṭurfat al-gharāʼib by Ibn al-Athīr, Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad, 1254-1299 — 1500 MS. Ouseley 97

  • 1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī MS. Ouseley 247-249

  • Four mathnawis by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 MS. Ouseley 353

  • A copy of Maktabī's Laylá va Majnūn. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 153

  • 1 copy of Fragment of a devotional work from Africa — >1818 [date of accompanying letters]. MS. Ouseley 98

  • 1 copy of Ḥamlah-ʼi Ḥaydarī by Bāz̲il, Muhammad Rafīʻ ibn Muḥammad al-Mashhadī, d. 1712 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 357

  • A copy of the Gulistān of Shaykh Saʻdī. MS. Ouseley 25

  • 1 copy of A collection of scraps with Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Bengali writing MS. Ouseley 154

  • 1 work on the subjects of Arabic literature and Tales — 18th cent.? MS. Ouseley 99

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Hasht bihisht by Bidlisī, Idrīs ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn, d. 1520 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 358

  • 1 copy of Iskandarnāmah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 155

  • Selections from the Dīvāns of Amīr Khusraw together with a short selection of Ghazals by Kalīm Hamadānī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 250

  • 1 copy of Dīvān-i Anvarī MS. Ouseley 36

  • 7 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Arabic language, Qasidas, Geomancy, Islamic magic, Theology, Wills, and Arabic poetry — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 156

  • 1 copy of Mirʼāt al-ʻālam by Muḥammad Bakhtāvar Khān, d. 1685 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 252,253

  • 1 copy of Jawāmiʻ al-ḥikāyāt wa-lawāmiʻ al-riwāyāt by ʻAwfī, Muḥammad, fl. 1228 MS. Ouseley 361

  • 12 works by 9 authors on the subjects of Iran, Music, Sufism, Epic literature, Bharata, Hinduism, Ragas, Arabic language, and Persian poetry MS. Ouseley 158

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Shawkat of Bukhārā. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 254

  • 1 copy of Maʻārij al-nubuwwah fī madārij al-futuwwah by Muʻīn al-Dīn Farāhī, d. 1501 or 2 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 363-365

  • A copy of Zīnat al-tawārīkh, a collection of metrical chronograms, fixing the dates of different events of public and private life in words, by one Shaykh Asad, or Asad Allāh as he also calls himself. MS. Ouseley 16

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Niʻmatkhān ʻAlī of Shiraz. MS. Ouseley 255

  • 1 copy of Majālis al-muʼminīn by Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1610 or 11 MS. Ouseley 366

  • Three mathnawīs from the Khamsah of Amīr Khusraw. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 256

  • 8 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Alphabets, Composition and exercises, Persian poetry, Zoroastrianism, Almanacks, Music, and India MS. Ouseley 160

  • 1 copy of Majālis al-muʼminīn by Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1610 or 11 MS. Ouseley 367

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Naẓīrī of Nīshāpūr. MS. Ouseley 257

  • Letters from Sir William Ouseley to J. H. Hindley MS. Eng. lett. d. 87

  • 1 copy of Qiṣṣah-ʼi Amīr Ḥamzah MS. Ouseley 161, 162

  • A portion of Jāmī's First Dīvān. — Multiple dates; Samarqand. MS. Ouseley 258

  • 1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 369

  • 1 copy of Khulāṣat al-akhbār by Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, ca. 1475-1535? MS. Ouseley 163-165

  • A copy of the Gulistān of Shaykh Saʻdī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 26

  • 1 copy of Tarjumat al-Takmilah by Shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad al-Yāfiʻī al-Yamanī, d. 1366 or 1369 MS. Ouseley 37

  • 5 works by Sādiq Isfahānī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Sạliḥ, 1609 or 10-1650 or 51 on the subjects of Names and Mogul Empire — Multiple dates; Lucknow MS. Ouseley 166

  • 1 copy of Maṭāliʻ al-anwār fī tarjamat al-āthār by ʻAfīfah Nūr Kāshānī MS. Ouseley 260

  • 1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī by Firdawsī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 370

  • 1 copy of Shuʻlah-ʼi āh — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 167

  • 1 copy of Anvār-i Suhaylī by Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5 MS. Ouseley 261

  • Five mathnawis by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 371

  • Two collections of notes and orders of the Emperor Awrangzīb — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 168

  • 1 copy of Ṭūṭī′nāmah by Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, d. 1350 MS. Ouseley 262

  • 1 copy of History of Bangālah MS. Ouseley 372

  • A copy of Jāmī's Subḥat al-abrār. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 17

  • 1 copy of Ẓafar′nāmah by Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, d. 1454 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 263

  • 1 copy of Ṣuwar al-buldān by Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, d. 957 or 8 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 373

  • 1 copy of Kitāb al-Futūḥ by Ibn Aʻtham al-Kūfī, Aḥmad, d. 926? MS. Ouseley 170, 171

  • 1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Shaykh Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 374

  • 1 copy of Khulāṣat al-ansāb by Ḥāfiẓ Raḥmat K̲h̲ān̲, 1710?-1774 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 172

  • 1 copy of Mas̲navī by Rūmī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 375

  • 1 copy of Vāqiʻāt-i Bāburī by Babur, Emperor of Hindustan, 1483-1530 MS. Ouseley 173

  • 1 copy of Haft iqlīm by Amīn Aḥmad, al-Rāzī, fl. 1593-1619 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 377

  • 1 copy of Muntakhab al-Lubāb by Khāfī Khān, Muḥammad Hāshim, ca. 1663-ca. 1731 MS. Ouseley 268

  • 1 copy of Jawāhir al-lughah by Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, 16th cent. MS. Ouseley 174

  • 1 copy of Kitāb-i Samak-i ʻAyyār by Ibn Abī al-Qāsim Shīrāzī, Ṣadaqah MS. Ouseley 379-381

  • 2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Asia, Shaybanid dynasty, Mogul Empire, and Universal history MS. Ouseley 269

  • 1 copy of al-Muʻjam fī āthār mulūk al-ʻajam by Sharaf al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh Ḥusaynī Qazvīnī MS. Ouseley 175

  • 1 copy of Rawḍat al-ṣafā by Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 38

  • Selections from the Dīvan of Saʻdī MS. Ouseley 27

  • 1 copy of Wafayāt al-aʻyān fī anbāʼ abnāʼ al-zamān by Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282. — Multiple dates; India MS. Ouseley 176

  • 1 copy of Dīvān-i Khāqānī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 382

  • 1 copy of Anvār-i Suhaylī by Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, d. 1504 or 5 MS. Ouseley 271, 272

  • A copy of the Diwān of Khwājah Masʻūd of Qumm. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 18

  • 1 copy of Tadhkirah-ʼi Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn by Muḥammad ʻAlī Ḥazīn, 1692?-1766? — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 273

  • 1 copy of Tuḥfat al-ʻIrāqayn by Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, ca. 1126-1198 or 9 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 383

  • 1 copy of Bahār-i dānish by ʻInāyat Allāh, d. ca. 1671 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 180

  • A copy of the Vandidād-sādah. — 1737; Sūrat, Gujarāt. MS. Ouseley 384

  • 1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 274, 275

  • A partial copy of the Dīwān of Kalīm Hamadānī. MS. Ouseley 181

  • 1 copy of Bayān-i vāqiʻ by ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻĀqibat Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Būlāqī ibn Muḥammad Riḍā Kashmīrī MS. Ouseley 276

  • 5 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Karbalāʾ, Imams, Mogul Empire, Iran, Timurids, Sufism, and Sufi poetry — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 386

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 182

  • 1 copy of Iskandarnāmah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 41-1202 or 3 — India MS. Ouseley 277

  • 9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Soul, Philosophy, Persian poetry, Mogul Empire, India, and Tales — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 387

  • 1 copy of Gawhar′nāmah-i ʻālam by Badīʻ al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Aslam ibn Mawlavī Muḥammad Aʻẓam Kūl MS. Ouseley 183

  • Tales. MS. Ouseley 389

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Qibchāqkhānī by Qibchāq Khān — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 184,185

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i guzīdah by Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, fl. 1330-1340 MS. Ouseley 278,279

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ghanī of Kashmīr. MS. Ouseley 39

  • 4 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Islam, Avestan manuscripts, Epic literature, Persian poetry, and Love poetry — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 28

  • 1 copy of Majmaʻ al-shuʻarā-yi Jahāngīrshāhī by Qātiʻī MS. Ouseley 186

  • 3 works by Mohammed Saulih, Mirza on the subjects of India, Mogul Empire, Pahlavi language, and Dialogues MS. Ouseley 390

  • the Persian travel journal of Mīrzā Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Shīrāzīan explanation of and short text in the Kabardian alphabet by Shora Gha Beg Mirza (?= Nogmov, Sh. B. (Shora Bekmurzovich), approximately 1801-1844Indian almanac in Persian for 1210 AH MS. Ouseley 159

  • 3 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Persian letters and Mogul Empire — Multiple dates; Lucknow MS. Ouseley 280

  • 2 works by Salmān Qazvīnī on the subjects of Timurids, Mogul Empire, Tatars, and Tales MS. Ouseley 187-189

  • 1 copy of Akhlāq-i Naṣīrī by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 MS. Ouseley 393

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Shuhrat of Shīrāz. MS. Ouseley 281

  • An illustrated copy of Hātifī's Khusraw u Shīrīn. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 19

  • 1 copy of Akbarnāmah by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 394

  • 1 copy of Nigāristān by Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, ca. 1495-1567 or 8 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 282

  • 1 copy of Laṭāʼif al-akhbār — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 190

  • 1 copy of Detached pieces of neatly copied Persian and Arabic MSS MS. Ouseley 396.

  • 1 copy of Tāj al-maṣādir by Bayhaqī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1077 or 8-1149 or 50 MS. Ouseley 283

  • 1 copy of Lubb al-tawarīkh by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Qazwīnī, Mīr 1481-1555 MS. Ouseley 191

  • 1 copy of Gospels [fragments] MS. Ouseley 398

  • 1 copy of Kitāb al-Futūḥ by Ibn Aʻtham al-Kūfī, Aḥmad, d. 926? MS. Ouseley 284, 285

  • 1 copy of Dīvān-i Khāqānī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 192

  • 1 copy of Kitāb al-Īdāḥ fī al-fiqh — c. 1794*. MS. Ouseley 399

  • A copy of the Gulistān of Shaykh Saʻdī. MS. Ouseley 286

  • 1 copy of Tāj al-qiṣaṣ by Bukhārī Urfanjī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr, fl. 1082-1083 MS. Ouseley 193

  • 1 copy of Fatḥ′nāmah-ʼi Ṣāḥibqirānī by Sharaf al-Dīn ʻAlī Yazdī, d. 1454 MS. Ouseley 3, 4

  • A Dīwān of Ghazals by Ṣābir. MS. Ouseley 287

  • Tales — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 194

  • Fragments of the Qurʼān. MS. Ouseley 401

  • 6 works by Jāmī, 1414-1492 on the subjects of Arabic language, Mysticism, Sufi poetry, Hadith, and Sufism — 1534 MS. Ouseley 288

  • 1 copy of Models for writing Arabic characters by Muḥammad ʻAlī [callig d.] 18th cent. — 1775 MS. Ouseley 405

  • A vast and valuable collection of Persian poems. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 198

  • 1 copy of Ḥabīb al-siyar by Khvānd Mīr, Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ibn Humām al-Dīn, ca. 1475-1535? MS. Ouseley 289

  • 1 copy of Scraps containing compositions in Arabic MS. Ouseley 406

  • 1 copy of Akhlāq-i Naṣīrī by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274 — 1727 MS. Ouseley 10

  • Three mathnawīs of Jāmī. MS. Ouseley 199

  • 2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry, Sufi poetry, and Persian language — Multiple dates; Jahāngīrnagār. MS. Ouseley 29

  • 1 copy of Itḥāf al-murīd by Laqānī, ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Ibrāhīm, 1563 or 4-1667 or 8 MS. Ouseley 100

  • 1 copy of Letters and documents, including one [f. 1] in Arabic MS. Ouseley 408

  • A copy of Jāmī's Haft Awrang. — Multiple dates; Shiraz. MS. Ouseley 290

  • 1 copy of Dīvān-i Anvarī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 1, 2

  • 1 copy of Kitāb Mawlid al-nabī — 1666 MS. Ouseley 101

  • A copy of the Būstān of Saʻdī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 291

  • 6 works by 3 authors on the subjects of Urdu language, Ecclesiastical law, Persian poetry, Tales, Islamic Empire, World history, Invoices, and Urdu poetry MS. Ouseley 419

  • 2 works by 2 authors on the subject of Music MS. Ouseley 102

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 20

  • 2 works by Sādiq Isfahānī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq ibn Muḥammad Sạliḥ, 1609 or 10-1650 or 51 on the subject of Names — Multiple dates; Lucknow MS. Ouseley 292

  • 1 work on the subject of Koran MS. Ouseley 420

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. — Undated, but from mid-10th/16th century. MS. Ouseley 200

  • 1 copy of Mas̲navī by — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 293

  • 3 works by Farāhānī, Abū al-Ḥasan Ḥusaynī, active approximately 1620 on the subjects of Philosophy and Persian poetry — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 43

  • 2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Arabic language and Theology — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 104

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. MS. Ouseley 201

  • 1 copy of Mas̲navī by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 294

  • 1 copy of Kitāb Funūn al-manūn fī al-wabāʼ wa al-ṭaʻūn by Ibn al-Mibrad, Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan, 1436 or 7-1503 — 1544 MS. Ouseley 105

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Sulṭān Muḥammad Quṭbshāhī MS. Ouseley 202

  • A selection from the Dīwān of Ṣāʼib of Tabrīz. MS. Ouseley 296

  • 2 works by Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, ca. 1495-1567 or 8 on the subject of Anecdotes — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 46

  • 4 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Plague, Arabs, Arabic language, Arabic poetry, and Inheritance and succession — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 106

  • 1 copy of Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn wa-majmaʻ al-baḥrayn by ʻAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī, 1413-1482 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 203

  • An Album of Paintings. — 17th-18th century. MS. Ouseley 297

  • 1 copy of Majmaʻ al-gharāʼib by Sulṭān Muḥammad ibn Darvīsh Muḥammad al-Muftī al-Balkhī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 47

  • 1 copy of Maqāmāt by Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122 — 1718 MS. Ouseley 107

  • Two mas̲navis by Niẓāmī. MS. Ouseley 205

  • 5 works by 7 authors on the subjects of Avestan manuscripts, Epic literature, Persian poetry, Love poetry, and Music MS. Ouseley 30

  • 1 copy of Gharāʼib al-dunya by Āz̲arī Isfarāyinī, Ḥamzah ibn ʻAlī Malik, 1382 or 3-1461 or 2 MS. Ouseley 48

  • 1 copy of Intikhāb-i Ḥadīqah by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, d. ca. 1230 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 109

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Ṭabarī by Ṭabarī, 838?-923 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 206-208

  • 1 copy of Rawḍat al-ṣafā by Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498 MS. Ouseley 301

  • 1 copy of A work of general history MS. Ouseley 49

  • 1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī by Saʻdī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 11

  • A copy of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 209-212

  • 5 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Naqshbandīyah, Islam, Persian poetry, and Sufism — Multiple dates; Patna MS. Ouseley 302

  • 1 copy of Ṭūṭī′nāmah by Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, d. 1350 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 50

  • A copy of Saʻdī's Būstān and 2 Zoroastrian works. MS. Ouseley 110

  • 2 works by Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh, 1433-1498 on the subject of Universal history MS. Ouseley 303

  • A shorter copy of the Dīwān of Asīr. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 21

  • A copy of the Dīwān of ʻUrfī Shīrāzī. MS. Ouseley 112-114

  • 3 works by 3 authors on the subjects of India, Delhi, Ghaznevids, Afghanistan, Iran, and Universal history — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 51-53

  • 1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 304

  • 1 copy of Mirʼāt-i Wāridāt by Muḥammad Shafīʻ ibn Sayyid Muḥammad Sharīf MS. Ouseley 213

  • A short collection of qaṣīdahs and mathnawīs. MS. Ouseley 115

  • 1 copy of Nuzhat al-qulūb by Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī, fl. 1330-1340 — Multiple dates; Lahore MS. Ouseley 54, 55

  • 1 copy of Tadhkirat al-shuʻarāʼ by Dawlatshāh Samarqandī, d. ca. 1494 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 305

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Ṭabaristān by Ibn Isfandiyār, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, fl. 1210-1216 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 214

  • A copy of the Dīwān of Vāʻiẓ of Qazvīn, together with a poetical anthology in the margins. — Multiple dates; Delhi [?] MS. Ouseley 118

  • 1 copy of Jahān'ārā by Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, ca. 1495-1567 or 8 MS. Ouseley 5,6

  • 1 copy of Khāvar′nāmah by Muḥammad ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Khūsafī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 306

  • 1 copy of Tavārīkh-i Nafāʼis-i akhbār — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 215

  • A copy of Awḥadī's mathnawī Jām-i Jam. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 119

  • 1 copy of Tales MS. Ouseley 58

  • 1 copy of Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-ghāraʼib by Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar. fl. c. 1446 — 1753 MS. Ouseley 307

  • 1 copy of Kitāb-i Akhbār-i Barmakīyān by Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Baranī, fl. 1284-1356 — n.d. MS. Ouseley 217

  • 1 copy of An Arabic-Persian-Urdu vocabulary in the form of an Urdu mathnawī MS. Ouseley 120

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Ḥaqqī by ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Dihlavī, 1551-1642 MS. Ouseley 59

  • Ghazals by Qudsī Mashhadī. MS. Ouseley 31

  • 1 copy of Shāhnāmah-ʼi Qāsimī by Qāsimī Gunābādī, Muḥammad Qāsim, d. 1574 or 5 — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 218

  • A copy of Hasan Dihlawī's Dīwān. — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 122

  • 1 copy of Taʼrīkh-i Ḥaqqī by ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn Dihlavī, 1551-1642 MS. Ouseley 60

  • 1 copy of Mas̲navī by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 — Multiple dates; India MS. Ouseley 310

  • 1 copy of Taz̲kirah-′i masarrat′afzā by Ilāhʹābādī, Amīr al-Dīn Aḥmad Amr Allāh, 18th cent. MS. Ouseley 219

  • 1 copy of Dīvān-i Anvarī MS. Ouseley 123

  • 1 copy of Sharḥ-i Tuḥfat al-ʻIrāqayn by 2 authors — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 61

  • 1 copy of Mujmal-i mufaṣṣal by Muḥammad Barārī Ummī ibn Muḥammad Jamshīd ibn Jabbārī Khān ibn Majnūn Khān Qāqshāl — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 311

  • A copy of S̲anāʼī Mashhadī's Dīvān. — Multiple dates; Āgra MS. Ouseley 22

  • A copy of Hātifī's Tīmūrnāmah. MS. Ouseley 124

  • 1 copy of Manṭiq al-ṭayr by ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230 MS. Ouseley 63

  • 1 copy of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283 — bef. 1783 MS. Ouseley 312

  • 1 copy of Rawḍat al-aḥbāb by ʻAṭāʼ Allāh ibn Faz̤l Allāh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī MS. Ouseley 220

  • A composite manuscript containing works on medicine, Islamic rituals, lexicography, and poetry. MS. Ouseley 291

  • 1 copy of Dīvan-i Saʻdī MS. Ouseley 64

  • 1 copy of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt by Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283 — n.d. [much later than MS. Ouseley 312 [Ethé 397] which is before 1783.] MS. Ouseley 313

  • A copy of Hātifī's Laylī u Majnūn. — Multiple dates; Harāt MS. Ouseley 126

  • 1 copy of Jalāʼ al-ʻuyūn by Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Taqī, 1627 or 8-ca. 1699 MS. Ouseley 314

  • 1 copy of Dīvān-i Anvarī — Multiple dates MS. Ouseley 13

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