Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Whinfield 4 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Whinfield Collection

Contents

A Persian translation of part of Alf laylah wa-laylah

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 583 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

History

Origin: 1229 AH; 1814 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Sir Edward Henry Whinfield, d. 1922.

The Whinfield manuscripts were bequeathed to the Indian Institute, Oxford, in 1922, and later transferred to the Bodleian Library.

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)

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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