MS. Elliott 249 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: Fragments of each of Jāmī's Yūsuf va-Zulaykhā, Hātifī's Laylā va-Majnūn, Hātifī's Khusraw va-Shīrīn, Hilālī's Shāh va-Gadā, and an anonymous mathnawī titled Maḥmūd va-Ayāz.

ff. 1-3 and 7-15

Author: Jāmī جامى

Title: Yūsuf va-Zulaykhā

Title: يوسف و زليخا

Fragments only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 923

ff. 3-7 and 25-32

Author: Hātifī هاتفى

Title: Laylā u Majnūn

Title: ليلى و مجنون

Fragments only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1005

ff. 15b-24b

Author: Hātifī هاتفى

Title: Khusraw va-Shīrīn

Title: خسرو و شیرین

Fragments only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1015

ff. 32b-38a

Author: Hilālī هلالى

Title: Shāh va-Gadā

Title: شاه و گدا

Fragments only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1025

ff. 38-47

Author: Anonymous

Title: Maḥmūd va-Ayāz

Title: محمود واياز

Fragments only.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1084

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 47

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshāpūrī.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: ; 1096 AH; 1685 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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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