MS. Ouseley 209-212 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى
Title: Silsilat al-dhahab
Title: سلسلة الذهب
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 927

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 59; 74; 51; 36

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Kātib

Decoration

First 2 pages of vol. 209 illuminated; vols. 211, 212 with illuminations; many other pages adorned with flowers.

Binding

History

Origin: 976 AH; 1568-69 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir William Ouseley, d. 1842.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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