Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Fraser 51 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Fraser Collection

Contents

A copy of Jāmī's Letters (Ruqaʻāt).

Title: Ruqaʻāt
Title: رقعات
Language(s): Persian

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 78

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: 19th Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1069 AH; 8th August 1659 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Fraser, d. 1754.

Purchased for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford from Fraser's widow.

The Radcliffe Library, Oxford.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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