Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. Or. 793

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Bodleian Library

Shelfmark

• Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. Or. 793

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q211343

Date

• 16th century AD

Title

• Koran

Description

• Persian splendour. Persian, mid 16th century. Black goatskin over paper pasteboards. Decorated with gilt-blocked panels, some of which are sunk into the boards. The doublures (the insides of the covers) are of red, green, orange and blue paper filigree, combined with gilt tooling. This sumptuous 16th-century manuscript Koran was formerly in the library of the celebrated Tipu Sultan (1750–99), ruler of Mysore. MS. Bodl. Or. 793.

Place

• Preferred form

  • Persia

  Original form

  • Persia

  Other form

  • Persien

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/ldata57317197e79f2682f78a2812a64dc48bac7425f2

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q27509

Rights

• Photo: © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Terms of use: CC-BY-NC 4.0. For more information, please see http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/terms.html.

Digitisation

• https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/d3d6f0fa-5356-49ca-b2b2-1cf2ec11e672

Manifest URL

• https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/d3d6f0fa-5356-49ca-b2b2-1cf2ec11e672.json