MS. Elliott 291 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Elliott Collection
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.
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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