Miscellaneous Persian manuscripts, 11th-20th century.
The full shelfmarks for the collection are: MSS. Pers. a. 2, 4-5, b. 1, 2 (P), 3-5, 6 (R), 7-10, c. 1-11, 12 (R), 13-32, 34-46, d. 1-45, 47-65, 67-76, 77 (R), 78-133, e. 1-46, 48-77, 78 (R), 79-104, f. 1-16, g. 2.
Miscellaneous Persian manuscripts from various sources.
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).
The manuscripts were acquired from various sources, by gift and by purchase, between 1698 and 2003.
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Some of the manuscripts are in 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, with references to the oriental and other manuscripts (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vols. III, V-VI, nos. 8803, 26329-36, 26338-41, 28111-16, 28154, 28159-61, 28775-7, 29155, 29492, 29615, 29680, 29897, 30902-3, 31313, 31741, 32371, 32842-4, 32927-30, 33034-5, 33364-8, 33511-21, 33617-18, 33712, 34023, 34167-8, 34692-5, 35515-6, 35858, 36238, 36993.
The manuscripts are also summarily described in the card catalogue, arranged by language, located in the Oriental Reading Room.
Fuller descriptions of many manuscripts are in E. Sachau, H. Eth and A.F.L. Beeston Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindstn, and Pusht manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1889-1953), vols. 1-3.
