Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Pers. c. 17 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

A copy of Saʻdī's Gulistān with the same author's Būstān in the margins.

Centre column.
Title: Gulistān
Language(s): Persian

References

Margin columns.
Title: Būstān
Language(s): Persian

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 173
Dimensions (leaf): 30.5 × 19.7 cm.

Layout

Centre column 10 lines per page throughout. Margins 26 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Centre Nastaʻlīq. Margin Shikastah.

Decoration

Binding

History

Origin: ; 1255 AH; 1839 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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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