MS. Ouseley 256 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Three mathnawīs from the Khamsah of Amīr Khusraw.

ff. 1b-49
Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325 امير خسرو دهلوى
Title: Maṭlaʻ al-anwār
Title: مطلع الأنوار
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 772 [1]
ff. 49-107
Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325 امير خسرو دهلوى
Title: Khusraw u Shīrīn
Title: خسرو و شيرين
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 772 [2]
ff. 107b-153
Author: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, ca. 1253-1325 امير خسرو دهلوى
Title: Hasht bihisht
Title: هشت بهشت
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 772 [3]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 153
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Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Maḥmūd ibn Mīr Bābā Shāhidī. Scribe: Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad Kātib.

Binding

History

Origin: Rajab 970 AH; February 1563 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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