Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 598 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection

Contents

Various Arabic and Ottoman Turkish works on subjects of Prayer, Islam, and Hadith

1. folios 1b-5a
Title: mes̠'eleler
Title: مثٸله‌لر
Author: anonymous

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mes̠'eles, referring to the rites and observances of Islām, according to the Hanafite doctrine, on ff. 1b-5a, in Turkish.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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2. folios. 5b-30b
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 196
[Ethé 2292 (2)]
4. folio 31a-b
Title: mes̠'eleler
Title: مثٸله‌لر
Author: anonymous

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Another short set of mes̠'eles, in Turkish, on fol. 31.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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5. folios 33b-52b
Title: A tract on days of good and bad omen
Incipit: اعلم قال الله تعالى الحمد لله القديم وقرآن العظيم فأرسلنا عليهم ريحًا صرصرًا فى ايام و مختلف في کلام حسات، وقال ابن عباس الخ

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A tract on days of good and bad omen, on ff. 33b-52b, in Turkish. Beginning: اعلم قال الله تعالى الحمد لله القديم وقرآن العظيم فأرسلنا عليهم ريحًا صرصرًا فى ايام و مختلف في کلام حسات، وقال ابن عباس الخ. Dated end of Ẕī l-ḥicce, A.H. 1052=A. D. 1643, March 21.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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6. folios 53a-60b
Title: A treatise on the proper conduct of standardbearers

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A treatise on the proper conduct of standardbearers, with special regulations as to their prayers, on ff. 53-60b, in Turkish; the first part is headed دعاء سنجاق في البر, the second علمداران.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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7. folios 62b-123a
Title: A mes̠nevī on the various points of ecclesiastic and civil law
Author: anonymous
Incipit: هر که یولداش اوله دائم روضة الاسلاميلة حق تعالی آنی معمور ایلیه ایمانیله

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A mes̠nevī on the various points of ecclesiastic and civil law, by an anonymous author, styled (), on ff. 61b-123a, in Turkish; it contains fifty bābs, and begins with a single beyt: هر که یولداش اوله دائم روضة الاسلاميلة حق تعالی آنی معمور ایلیه ایمانیله, after which immediately follows the index of the fifty bābs in prose; the poem itself begins, on fol. 62b, last line, thus: چون بسم الله اولدی ابتداسی ينه حمديله اولسون انتهاسی

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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8. folios 123b-131b
Title: an anonymous mes̠nevī
Incipit: رسول الله حدیثنده بیوردی اسلام قیدنی نجه قیوردی كور

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A similar, but shorter mes̠nevī on the five fundamental laws of Islām, on ff. 123b-131b, in Turkish. Beginning: رسول الله حدیثنده بیوردی اسلام قیدنی نجه قیوردی كور.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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9. folios 132b-140a

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Another copy of Şeyḫ Vefā's تقویم, or perpetual calendar (see Nos. 2193-2195 above), on ff. 132b-140a, in Turkish.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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10. ff. 141v-142r
Author: Anonymous
Language(s): Arabic

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Appendix Prayers
[Ethé 2292 (9)]
11. folios 143a-156b
Title: A tract on the natural phenomena

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A tract on the natural phenomena, wind, rain, thunderstorms, etc., which appear in the different months of the year, and their effect upon temperature, etc., on ff. 143-156b, in Turkish. It begins with March (), on fol. 143; April () appears on fol. 144a; May (), on fol. 145a; June (), on fol. 146a; July (), on fol. 147a; August (), on fol. 148a; September (very indistinctly written), on fol. 149a; October () on fol. 150a; November (), on fol. 151b; December (heading missing, this month seems to begin on fol. 153a); January (), on fol. 154b; February (), on fol. 155b.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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12. folios. 157a-159a
Title: mes̠'eles
Author: anonymous

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A third set of mes̠'eles, in Turkish, on ff. 1578-159a.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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Physical Description

Form: codex
26 ff. 2 ff.

History

Origin: 1633 CE n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Jacob Golius [see Golius Sale Catalogue, Libri Miscellanei M.S. in quarto &c, no. 58].

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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