MS. Ouseley 258 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Ouseley Collection
Contents
A portion of Jāmī's First Dīvān.
Title: Fātiḥat al-shabāb
Title: First Dīwān
Title: فاتحة الشباب
Language(s): Persian
A portion of the Dīvān only.
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 274
Layout
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Mullā ʻAlawī Samarqandī.
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: Samarqand.; 1045 AH; 1636 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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