MS. Huntington 598 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Huntington Collection

1 copy of Bakhtyārnāmah by Unknown

Author: Unknown

Title: Bakhtyārnāmah

Title: بختيارنامه

A facsimile copy is kept in SOAS Library at ms. 29191

Colophon:

Language(s): Uighur, and Persian.

References

no. 2085

A. Jaubert, “Notice et extrait de la version turque du Bakhtiar-naméh d’après le manuscrit en caractères ouïgours que possède la Bibliothèque Bodléïenne d’Oxford,” JA 10, 1827, pp. 146-67.

BAḴTĪĀR-NĀMA – Encyclopaedia Iranica

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 148

Dimensions (leaf): 25.4 × 16.5 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Splendid Uighur characters with Persian/Arabic headings in neo-kufic. Manṣūr

History

Origin: 1st Dhū al-Ḥijjah 838 AH; 28th June 1435 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693 as part of the collections of Robert Huntington.

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

JISC

Subjects

Tales

Comments

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World