MS. A. Walker 71 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A selection from the Dīwān of Ṣāʼib of Tabrīz.

Author: Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʻAlī, d. ca. 1670 محمدعلى صائب تبريزى
Title: Dīvān-i Ṣāʼib
Title: ديوان صائب

Defective at beginning.

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1135

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 188

Layout

2 columns of 10 and 17 lines.

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: Aḥmadābād; 19th Shawwāl 1198 AH; 5th September 1784 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker, d. 1831.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Sir William Walker in 1845.

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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