MS. Elliott 61 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of Jāmī's First Dīvān.

Author: Jāmī, 1414-1492 جامى
Title: Fātiḥat al-shabāb
Title: First Dīwān
Title: فاتحة الشباب
Incipit: يا من بدا الخ
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 947

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 318

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Small, clear and very distinct Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Ḥusayn Kulū

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: 29th Rabīʻ I 899 AH; 8th January 1494 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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