MS. Laud Or. 216 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Display:

Oriental Manuscripts Laud Oriental Collection

Contents

3 mathnawīs (2 Persian and 1 Turkish).

fols. 1-111 and 124-124 [centre columns]
Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى
Title: Yūsuf u Zulaykhā
Title: يوسف و زليخا
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 909
fols. 125-168
Author: Yahyâ Bey, d. 1582 يحيى بك
Title: Ganjīnah-ʼi rāz [fragment only]
Title: گنجینۀ راز
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

Ethé 2137
fols. 1b-91b [margin column]
Author: Hātifī هاتفى
Title: Laylā u Majnūn
Title: ليلى و مجنون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 996

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

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