MS. Laud Or. 216 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection
Contents
3 mathnawīs (2 Persian and 1 Turkish).
fols. 1-111 and 124-124 [centre columns]
Title: Yūsuf u Zulaykhā
Title: يوسف و زليخا
Language(s): Persian
References
fols. 1b-91b [margin column]
Title: Laylā u Majnūn
Title: ليلى و مجنون
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 168
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Shaykh Dāʼūd ibn Muḥammad.
History
Origin: 982. AH; 1574-75. CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The Library of Archbishop William Laud, d. 1645.
Donated to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop William Laud, between 1635-41.
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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