E. 8 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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Summary of Contents: This MS., also given to me at Constantinople in April, 1908, by Dr Ridá Tawfiq, comprises 165 ff. of 16.4 x 10.5 cm and 12-16 ll., is written in different Turkish naskh hands, all legible, and is dated in the colophon on f. 165b Shawwal 29, 1193/Nov. 9, 1779. It contains the five following tracts: (1) Questions put to Mullá Sa'íd by a dervish in 994/1586 as to the reasons for various regulations as to the performance of prayers, etc., with the answers in Turkish (ff. 4-16). Dated Muharram, 1192/Feb. 1778. (2) The Akhbár-náma of Firishta-oghlu (ff. 17-72), in Turkish prose, dated the beginning of Dhu'l-Qa'da, 1191/Dec. 22, 1776. I have two other MSS. of this work (E. 4 and E. 13), and there is another in the British Museum (Or. 5961). (3) A Turkish mathnawí poem by "Lá Makání" (ff. 74-97), beginning: (4) Another Turkish prose treatise (ff. 98-128b) entitled Kitáb-i-Mawlá Iláhí, beginning: کف و دود سیاهی علم ایلر زمی صانع خه ماهی آدم ایلر حمد جمیل بی حد و شکر جزیل بی عد اول خالق كولين و رزاق الثقلين الخ Copied in Jumádà I, 1182/Sept.-Oct., 1768. (5) Another Turkish prose treatise entitled Tuhfatu'l-'Ushsháq (ff. 129-165) beginning, after the very incorrect Arabic doxology: اما بعده بلکل و آگاه اولغيل كى حق سبحانه و تعالی کلام قدیمنده بيورر وما خلقت الجن و الانس الا لیعبدون اى ليعرفون ای لیوحدون دیرلر یعنی بیورر جبله انسی براتمدم الا بكا عبادت الملجون براندم ظاهرا معناسی بودر كي ويدك الخ

ff. 4-16

Title: Questions put to Mullá Sa'íd by a dervish (994/1586) on the reasons for various regulations concerning prayer, with answers in Turkish

The present copy is dated Muḥarram, 1192/Feb. 1778.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

ff. 17-72

Author: Firishta-oghlu

Title: Akhbár-náma

Title: Hurufi Chronicle

Dated the beginning of Dhu'l-Qa'da, 1191/Dec. 22, 1776. Browne notes two other copies of this work, E. 4 and E. 13, and a further copy in the British Museum (Or. 5961).

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

ff. 74-97

Author: Lá Makání

Title: Turkish mathnawí poem

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

ff. 98-128b

Title: Kitáb-i-Mawlá Iláhí

Copied in Jumádà I, 1182/Sept.-Oct. 1768.

Incipit: کف و دود سیاهی علم ایلر زمی صانع خه ماهی آدم ایلر حمد جمیل بی حد و شکر جزیل بی عد اول خالق كولين و رزاق الثقلين الخ

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

ff. 129-165

Title: Tuhfatu'l-'Ushsháq

Title: تحفة العشاق

Begins after a very incorrect Arabic doxology.

Incipit: اما بعده بلکل و آگاه اولغيل كى حق سبحانه و تعالی کلام قدیمنده بيورر وما خلقت الجن و الانس الا لیعبدون اى ليعرفون ای لیوحدون دیرلر یعنی بیورر جبله انسی براتمدم الا بكا عبادت الملجون براندم ظاهرا معناسی بودر كي ويدك الخ

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 165

Dimensions (leaf): 16.4 × 10.5 cm.

Layout

12-16 lines

Hand(s)

Written in different Turkish naskh hands, all legible.

History

Origin: Shawwal 29, 1193/Nov. 9, 1779 CE ; Constantinople

Provenance and Acquisition

Given to me by Rıza Tevfik, 1869?-1949 in April, 1908

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

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Cambridge University

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