MS. Elliott 291 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: A large portion, incomplete both at beginning and end, containing the middle part of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ's celebrated poetical anthology, styled Laṭāʼif al-khayāl, which was completed in 1104 AH/1692-93 CE.
Author: Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, fl. 17th century محمد صالح
Title: Laṭāʼif al-khayāl
Title: لطائف الخيال
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1143

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 478

Layout

2 columns of 13 to 21 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq, in different hands.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: No date.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Bardoe Elliott.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by J.B. Elliott, in 1859.

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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