MS. Ouseley 153 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Display:

Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Collection

Contents

A copy of Maktabī's Laylá va Majnūn.

Author: Maktabī Shīrāzī, -1510 or 1511 مكتبى شيرازى
Title: Laylá va Majnūn
Title: لیلی و مجنون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 892

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 75
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Binding

History

Origin: ; 12th Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1198 AH; 28th September 1784 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

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

TO TOP