MS. Elliott 416 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of Jāmī's Yūsuf u Zulaykhā.

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى
Title: Yūsuf u Zulaykhā
Title: يوسف و زليخا
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 913

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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