MS. Ouseley Add. 31 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: A very large collection of Persian poetry, compiled from the works of ancient and modern authors, and completed AH 1215, with a preface and khātimah in prose.
Author: Anonymous
Title: Murāsalāt-i shawqī
Title: مراسلات شوقى
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1194

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 447

Layout

1 to 3 columns, 14 to 20 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Excellent Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: ; 14th Muḥarram 1215 AH; 7th June 1800 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Gore Ouseley, d. 1844

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1858.

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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