MS. Elliott 103 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A copy of the Dīwān of Saḥāb, a poet at the court of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh.

Author: Saḥāb سحاب
Title: Dīvān-i Saḥāb
Title: ديوان سحاب
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1199

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 175

Layout

2 columns of 12 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to Sir Gore Ouseley by Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh, Tehran, 1227/1812.

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

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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