MS. Fraser 73-75 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī by Saʻdī

Author: Saʻdī سعدي الشيرازي، عبد الله بن مشرف، ت. 690 هـ
Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī
Title: كلّيّات سعدى
Language(s): Persian

Folio 2b of the first volume (MS. Fraser 73) contains the minuscule signature of Rūzbihān the Illuminator على يد العبد روزبهان المذهب

References

Ethé 687
no. 687
Stiglitz, M., McLees, F., & Watson, A. (2018). Rūzbihān, Saʿd al-Dīn and the Āstāna of Ḥusām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 9(1), 39-71.
A Group of Artists Associated with the "Āsitāna" of Ḥusām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, Lāle Uluç, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pearls from Water. Rubies from Stone. Studies in Islamic Art in Honor of Priscilla Soucek. Part II (2007), pp. 113-145.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 177, 105, 118 ff.
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Layout

Hand(s)

Very small, distinct, and clear Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: Shīrāz, dar Āsitānah-ʼi Ḥaḍrat-i Mawlānā Ḥusām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm.; Undated. Approximately 1550. 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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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile) [MS. Fraser 73]

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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