MS. Marsh 598 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Marsh Collection
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Various Arabic and Ottoman Turkish works on subjects of Prayer, Islam, and Hadith
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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.
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Another short set of mes̠'eles, in Turkish, on fol. 31.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A third set of mes̠'eles, in Turkish, on ff. 1578-159a.
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History
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.
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