MS. Ouseley 26 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of the Gulistān of Shaykh Saʻdī.

Author: Saʻdī سعدى شيرازی
Title: Gulistān
Title: گلستان

With marginal glosses explaining words of Arabic origin.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 711

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 136

Layout

Hand(s)

Strong, clear NastaʻlīqMuḥammad Jamāl

Binding

History

Origin: 22nd Rabīʻ I 1189 AH; 22nd June 1775 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir William Ouseley, d. 1842.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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