MS. Elliott 61 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Elliott Collection
Contents
A copy of Jāmī's First Dīvān.
Title: Fātiḥat al-shabāb
Title: First Dīwān
Title: فاتحة الشباب
Incipit: يا من بدا الخ
Language(s): Persian
References
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
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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