Calligraphia Persica et picturae, c. 1602, 1603
Thirty pictures, illustrating Indian life, manners and customs, harem and love-scenes, battle scenes, birds, etc.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1602, 1603
Extent
30 items
Language of Materials
- Persian
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Or. 149
Arrangement
Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘A 181’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 480
Beeston, A. F. L, H. Ethé and E. Sachau, Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (3 vols., Oxford, 1889-1953), no. 1900
Custodial History
Stated to be non-Laudian, but query. Manuscript 2847 acquired by the Bodleian Library
Dimensions
15 1/8 x 10 in.
Repository Details
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