MS. Marsh 579 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

1 copy of Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Author: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 نظامی گنجوی Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn Yūsuf ibn Muʼayyad Niẓām al-Dīn Ganjavī جمال الدين ابو محمد الياس بن يوسف بن مؤيد نظام الدين گنجوی

Title: Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī

Title: خمسۀ نظامی

Title: Panj Ganj

Title: پنج کنج

Language(s): Persian

References

Ethé 588

no. 588

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 330 ff.

Hand(s)

Small but clear Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: 956 AH; 1549 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 579 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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