Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 76 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

Contents

A copy of Saʻdī's Būstān.

Title: Būstān
Language(s): Persian

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 142
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

Binding

History

Origin: ; 14th Rabīʻ II 974 AH; 29th October 1566 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 62].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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