Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Sale 33 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Sale Collection

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 121 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 24.13 × 15.6 cm.

Layout

Two contiguous columns of 17 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

(Hand 1, folios 1b-121b) Script: Splendid nesta‘līḳ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

(Hand 2, folio 121b) Script: Splendid nesta‘līḳ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Given the date on the chronogram, penned no earlier than 999 AH; 1591 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

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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