MS. Elliott 408 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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1 copy of Farhād u Shīrīn by Alisher Navoiĭ, 1441-1501

Author: Alisher Navoiĭ, 1441-1501 میر علی شیر نوائی Mīr ʻAlī Shīr Navāʼī
Title: Farhād u Shīrīn
Title: فرهاد و شیرین
Incipit: بحمدک فتح ابواب المعانی
Language(s): Chagatai, Persian

The second mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah. For the other three surviving volumes of a five volume set copied by the same anonymous scribe, see: MS. Elliott 287, MS. Elliott 317, and MS. Elliott 339

References

Ethé 2117

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 78 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 10¾ × 7¼ in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Small, but distinct Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: 890 AH; 1485 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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

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JISC

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