MS. A. Walker 49 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Oriental Manuscripts A. Walker Collection

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A copy of Hātifī's Laylī u Majnūn.

Author: Hātifī هاتفى
Title: Laylā u Majnūn
Title: ليلى و مجنون
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1000

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 65

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: 9th Jumādā II 1077 AH; 7th December 1666 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.

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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