MS. Elliott 63 (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 949

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 359

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ḥaydar Qulī ibn Naṭr (Naẓar ?) Qulī ibn Kamāl al-Dīn ibn ʻAlī.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: Shaʻbān 985. AH; October-November 1577. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

W. Roebuck, Portsmouth, 8th June 1810.

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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