Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Greaves 1 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Greaves Collection

Contents

An illustrated copy of Jāmī's Yūsuf u Zulaykhā.

Language(s): Persian

Contains 7 miniature paintings.

Language(s): Persian

References

Robinson, pp. 140-41.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 154
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Excellent Nastaʻlīq.

Binding

Lacquer binding with images of flora and fauna.

History

Origin: ; Rabīʻ II 977. AH; September-October 1569. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Greaves, d. 1652 and Thomas Greaves, d. 1676.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1678.

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

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images - lacquer binding only)

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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