MS. Marsh 447 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of Saʻdī's Būstān.

Author: Saʻdī سعدى شيرازی
Title: Būstān
Title: بوستان

Contains a partial interlinear Latin paraphrase and glosses.

Language(s): Persian, Latin

References

Ethé 740

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 173
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Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq in a European hand.

Binding

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri M.S. Incompacti in folio, no. 9].

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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