MS. Fraser 91 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A collection of 4 poetical works by 3 poets.

ff. 1-171 [centre-columns]
Author: Khvājū-yi Kirmānī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī, 1290 or 1291-1352? خواجوى كرمانى، محمود بن على
Title: Humāy u Humāyūn
Title: هماى و همايون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 795
ff. 1-98 [margin-column]
Author: Nizām al-Dīn Aḥmad Suhaylī, d. 1501-2 نظام الدين احمد سهيلى
Title: Laylá u Majnūn
Title: ليلى و مجنون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 982
ff. 101b-148a, 157a-159b, 155a-156b [margin-column]
Author: Kātibī Turshīzī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -approximately 1434 شمس الدين محمد بن عبد الله كاتبى ترشيزى نيشاپوری
Title: Dah bāb
Title: ده باب
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 869
ff. 149b-154a, and 160a-172a [margin-columns], and ff. 171b and 172a [centre-columns]
Author: Nizām al-Dīn Aḥmad Suhaylī نظام الدين احمد سهيلى
Title: [Miscellaneous poetry]
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 983

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 172
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Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Binding

History

Origin: 991 AH; 1583 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Fraser, d. 1754.

Purchased for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford from Fraser's widow.

The Radcliffe Library, Oxford.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

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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