MS. Elliott 403 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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An illustrated copy of Hātifī's Tīmūrnāmah.

Author: Hātifī, d. 1520-21 هاتفى
Title: Tīmūrnāmah
Title: تيمورنامه

Contains 7 miniature paintings.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1006

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 202
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Kamāl al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn Jalāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd.

Binding

History

Origin: ; Jumādā II 934. AH; February-March 1528. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley.

The collections of John Bardoe Elliott.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by J.B. Elliott, in 1859.

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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