MS. Elliott 161 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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An illustrated copy of Hātifī's Haft Manẓar.

Author: Hātifī, -1520 or 1521 هاتفى

Title: Haft Manẓar

Title: هفت منظر

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1016

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 92

Layout

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Shāh Muḥammad Nīshāpūrī

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece. Pages sprinkled with gold. 8 miniature paintings.

Binding

History

Origin: 10th Ramaḍān 946 AH; 19th January 1540 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley.

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

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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