Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. A. Walker 51 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts A. Walker Collection

Contents

A copy of Saʻdī's Būstān.

Title: Būstān
Language(s): Persian

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 202
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Large Nastaʻlīq

Binding

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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