MS. Bodl. Or. 394 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: One copy of Mawlānā Luṭfī's Chaghatay Gul u Nawrūz, apparently missing the first six chapters.

Language(s): Chaghatay

Author: Mawlānā Luṭfī مولانا لطفی
Title: Gul u Nawrūz
Title: گل و نوروز
Rubric: گل و نوروز کتابی‌نینك اوّلی

A note on folio 124b states that the work was originally written on تأریخ سکز یوز اون تورت = 814 AH (i.e. in 1411/2 CE) and dedicated to Sikandar Sulṭān سکندر سلطان, better known as Iskandar Mīrzā اسکندر میرزا, grandson of Amīr Temür and ruler of much of western Iran in the early 1400s CE.

Language(s): Chaghatay

References

Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930. col. 1194-1195 § (73) 2112.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 125 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 16.5 × 11.4 cm.

Collation

Folios 81-88 are upside down.

Layout

Single column of 9 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Coarse nesḫ. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Per the colophon, this copy was completed on 10 Šawwāl 994 AH; 24 September 1586 CE: تأریخ توقوز یوز توقسان تورتدا مبارك شوّال آیی‌نینك اونونجی کونی

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Description based on Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930.

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