MS. Sale 41 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Sale Collection
Contents
A collection of 9 works on Poetry, Sufism, Viziers, and Religious Doctrine.
Fols. 1b-21a
Title: Sharḥ abyāt Gulistān
Title: شرح أبيات گلستان
An Arabic commentary on the Gulistān of Saʻdī, 1193-1292
Language(s): Arabic, Persian
References
Appendix Poetry
Fols. 21b-53b
Language(s): Persian
References
Fols. 110b-120
Language(s): Persian, Turkish
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 120 ff.
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq
History
Origin: 1022 AH; 1613 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.
Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.
The Radcliffe Library.
Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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