MS. Sale 61 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Sale Collection
Contents
Copy of Tanḳīḥ-i tevārīḫ-i mülūk, a general history of the world down to Ottoman Sulṭān Muḥammed IV.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 301
Dimensions (leaf): 18.4 × 13.7 cm.
Layout
1 column of 13 lines throughout.
Hand(s)
Script: Large and distinct Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: درویش سید محمد عیونی Dervīş Seyyid Muḥammed ʻUyūnī.
Decoration
Small illuminated frontispiece.
Binding
History
Origin: ; 1st Ramażān 1135 AH; 5th June 1723 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.
Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.
The Radcliffe Library.
Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 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
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Funding of Cataloguing
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