MS. Douce Or. a. 1 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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An album of 41 Indian pictures with calligraphic panels signed by Mīr ʻAlī

Title: An album of 41 Indian pictures with calligraphic panels signed by Mīr ʻAlī
Language(s): Persian, Arabic
Ethé 2381

Physical Description

Form: codex

Layout

History

Origin: ; Assembled c. 1650 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Francis Douce, d. 1834.

The Douce bequest came to the Bodleian Library in 1834.

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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