MS. Ouseley 209-212 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Collection
Contents
A copy of Jāmī's Silsilat al-dhahab
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
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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