MS. Elliott 416 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Elliott Collection
Contents
A copy of Jāmī's Yūsuf u Zulaykhā.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 175
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Large and distinct Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: ʻAlī ibn Mīr ʻAbd al-Raḥīm.
Decoration
Illuminated frontispiece; gilt and ornate headings; one miniature painting on fol. 65a.
History
Origin: Akbarābād.; 1040-41. AH; 1631-32. CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Copied for Shāhjahān's Library.
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
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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