MS. Selden superius 32 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Selden superius Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A composite manuscript containing a famous treatise on riddles, a fragment of an anthology of Persian poetry, and two accounts from the time of the Prophet Muḥammad.
ff. 170-184
Language(s): Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 184
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq.
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: 27th Ramaḍān 911 AH; 21st February 1506 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of John Selden.
Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.
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
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