MS. Fraser 146 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Fraser Collection

1 copy of Tārīkh-i ʻĀlamʹārā-yi ʻAbbāsī by Iskandar Munshī, 1560 or 61-1633 or 4

Author: Iskandar Munshī, 1560 or 61-1633 or 4 اسكندر منشی

Title: Tārīkh-i ʻĀlamʹārā-yi ʻAbbāsī

Title: تاريخ عالم آرای عبّاسی

Language(s): Persian

Incomplete, third Ṣaḥīfah only

References

Ethé 299

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 149 ff.

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: Ramaḍān 1132? AH; July 1720? CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Fraser, d. 1754.

Purchased for the Radcliffe Library, Oxford from Fraser's widow.

The Radcliffe Library, Oxford.

Transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Radcliffe Library in May 1872.

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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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World