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E. G. Browne Collection

Summary of Contents: This is the MS. "(14) A. 41" described on pp. 19 (551)-22 (554) of Further Notes, being one of five bought in Constantinople in May, 1901, at the sale of the effects of a Bektashi dervish. It comprises 205 ff. of 15'5 x 10'5 c. and 13 ll. and is written in a neat nasta'liq of the sixteenth Christian century. It contains 17 tracts in verse and prose, of which the most important is the Khutbatu'l-Bayán (ff. 26-181) in Turkish, the colophon of which is dated 983/1575-6.

Title: 17 tracts in verse and prose

Language(s): Turkish

References

p.44

See sub classmark A. 41 in "Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection with the Bektashi Order of Dervishes Author(s): Edward G. Browne Source: The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Jul., 1907, (Jul., 1907), pp. 533-581.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 205

Dimensions: 15.5 × 10.5 cm.

Layout

13 lines

Hand(s)

Neat nasta'liq script

History

Origin: Sixteenth century ; Constantinople

Provenance and Acquisition

One of five bought in Constantinople in May, 1901 at the sale of the effects of a Bektashi dervish

Passed to Cambridge University Library in 1936 (the "Browne Bequest").

Record Sources

Description based on "Further Notes on the Literature of the Hurufis and Their Connection with the Bektashi Order of Dervishes Author(s): Edward G. Browne Source: The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Jul., 1907, (Jul., 1907), pp. 533-581. The new class mark and additional information from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University

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