MS. Elliott 242 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Elliott Collection
Contents
1 copy of Mirʼāt al-ʻālam by Muḥammad Bakhtāvar Khān, d. 1685
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 463 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):
Layout
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq and Shikastah
History
Origin: 6th to 7th cent., approx. AH; 11th to 12th cent., approx. CE
Provenance and Acquisition
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
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