MS. E. D. Clarke Or. 16 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of an anonymous Ottoman Turkish translation from the Arabic of سراج الدین ابو حفص عمر ابن الوردی Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar ibn al-Wardī's cosmographical work خریدة العجاٸب وفریدة الغراٸب Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-ghāraʼib.
Translator: Possibly translated by محمود افندی الخاطب Maḥmūd Efendi el-Ḫāṭib.
Title: خریدة العجاٸب وفریدة الغراٸب
According to folio 4a, line 6, the Ottoman Turkish translation was originally produced for a certain امیر عثمان بن اسکندر پاشا Emīr ‘Os̠mān bin İskender Paşa.
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish with some Arabic
References
Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur: Zweiter Band. Leiden: Brill. 1943. p. 163: § 12. Kapitel. Geographie und Kosmographie ¶ 8 (131).
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 270 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 29.8 × 19.7 cm.
Layout
Single column of 25 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Naskh in black ink. Scribe: غلطهلی عبد الرحمن Ġalaṭalı ‘Abdurraḥmān.
History
Origin: 18 July 1680 CE; 20 Cemāẕī el-āḫir 1091 AH ; Probably completed in Dersa‘ādet/İstanbul.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Edward Daniel Clarke, d. 1822.
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1809.
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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