MS. Ouseley 223 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of Najāt's mathnawī on wrestling, together with selections from his Dīwān.

ff. 1-13
Author: Mīr ʻAbd al-ʻĀl ibn Mīr Muḥammad Muʼmin Ḥusaynī مير عبد العال بن مير محمد مؤمن حسيني Najāt نجات
Title: Kitāb-i Gul-i kushtī
Title: کتاب گل کشتی
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1164
ff. 17-83
Author: Mīr ʻAbd al-ʻĀl ibn Mīr Muḥammad Muʼmin Ḥusaynī مير عبد العال بن مير محمد مؤمن حسيني Najāt نجات
Title: Muntakhab-i Dīvān-i Mīr Abū al-ʻĀl
Title: منتخب ديوان مير ابو العال
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1163

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 83

Layout

2 columns of 14 lines throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir William Ouseley, d. 1842.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

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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