MS. Elliott 63 (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. 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
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