Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Hertford 38 (Hertford College Library, Hertford College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

A collection of news reports from the prefecture of the town of Lucknow, A.H. 1212/1797-98.

Title: Akhbār
Title: اخبار
Incipit: اخبار چبوتره مرقوم چهارم وپنجم محرم سنۀ ۱۲۱۲ هجری دیروز خبر رسید الخ
Language(s): Persian

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 52
Dimensions (leaf): 244 × 146 mm.

Layout

One column; 11 lines per page. 185 × 90 mm.

Hand(s)

Script: Large Nastaʿlīq.

Decoration

No decoration.

Binding

19th-century Library binding of tan leather over boards. Spine has 7 bands.

History

Origin: Lucknow; 1212 AH; 1797-98 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Ex libris Colleg. Hertf. apud Oxon.

The Hertford College Manuscripts are on long-term deposit with the Bodleian Library.

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

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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