A compilation of three fragmentary Persian works on theology and geography and five Turkish historical fragments about places and figures in Salghurid and Timurid Iran and Central Asia. Note that folios 40-47have been left blank.
MS. Selden Superius 95
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A compilation of three fragmentary Persian works on theology and geography and five Turkish historical fragments about places and figures in Salghurid and Timurid Iran and Central Asia. Note that folios 40-47have been left blank.
Shelfmark
MS. Selden Superius 95
Language
Arabic
Persian
Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
Contents
Form
codex
Physical extent
ff. 146
Hands
Script: Nasta‘līq with some Shikasta-style ligatures. Scribe unknown.
Acquisition
Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.
Provenance
The collections of John Selden.
Subject
Poets, Persian--747-1500--Biography
Theology, Islamic
Geography
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Title
Geography, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Selden Superius 95
Summary
(1797) A theological tract by Yûsuf 'Alî, no date (fols. 1-24).
(2076) Historical fragments and stories, 13-15th century (fols. 25-39).
(413) A geographical work by Abû-alhasan Sâ'id, no date (fols. 49-146).
Date
c. 13th-15th century
Language
Persian
Physical extent
146 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 3327 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
See this item
Connections
People associated with this object
- anonymous
- سلطان شاه (...) الحسینی بهادر خان Sulṭān Shāh (...) al-Ḥusaynī Bahādur Khān .
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Abū al-Ḥasan Ṣāʻid ibn ʻAlī al-Jurjānī
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Yūsuf ʻAlī
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Shāh Rukh Mīrzā, 1377-1446
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Shaikh Saʻdī
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Sharaf al-Dīn
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Selden, John, 1584-1654
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ʻAbd al-Razzāq Kamāl al-Dīn ibn Isḥāq al-Samarqandī, 1413-1482
