MS. Elliott 330 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of ʻĀqil K̲h̲ān of Rayy's mathnawī, Shamʻ va-parvānah.

Author: ʻĀqil K̲h̲ān-i Rāzī -1696 عاقل خان رازى
Title: Kitāb-i Shamʻ va-parvānah
Title: كتاب شمع وپروانه
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1149

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 86

Layout

2 columns of 14 lines throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Large Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece.

Binding

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley.

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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