Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 517 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

Contents

1 copy of Būstān by Saʻdī

Title: Būstān
Incipit: بنام خداوند جان آفرین حکیم سخن در زبان آفرین
Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 1983

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 62 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 9⅝ × in.

Layout

Hand(s)

Small, but clear Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: n.d. (9th century) AH; n.d. (15th century) CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in folio, no. 67].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (2 selected images only)

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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