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1 copy of Mirʼāt al-ʻālam by Muḥammad Bakhtāvar Khān, d. 1685

Author: Muḥammad Bakhtāvar Khān, d. 1685 محمد بختآور خان
Title: Mirʼāt al-ʻālam
Title: مرآت العالم
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 114

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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