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Summary of Contents: ترجمه پندنامه عطار A metrical Turkish translation of the Pand-náma of Faridu'd-Din 'Attár by Amrí of Adrianople (d. 988/1580). See Flügel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. III, p. 415, where another copy of the work is described, and Rieu, B.M.T.C., pp. 154 and 261. Begins (f. 2): مبدع كونين سلطان قديم ابتدا کردم بنام آن كريم The translation, written in the same metre as the original poem and dedicated to Prince Báyazid, a son of Sultán Sulaymán I (see Gibb, Hist. of Ottoman Poetry, vol. 1, pp. 10-11), begins on f. 4: نور ایمان ویردی خاک آدمه حمد بی حد اول خدای عالمه and is followed by miscellaneous Turkish and Arabic verses (ff. 37b-40b). Ff. 43 of 19.8 x 13.6 cm and 15 ll. Clear naskh, pointed, with rubrications. Transcribed by Darwísh Safar and completed in 1035/1625-6. This MS. was presented to Professor Browne in April, 1908, by Dr Riza Tevfiq.
Author: Emrî of Adrianople, d. 988/1580 Emrî-yi Edirnevî ادرنه لي امري
Title: Tarjuma-i Pand-náma-i 'Attár
Title: Tercüme-i Pend-i Attâr
Title: ترجمه پندنامه عطار

A metrical Turkish translation, in the original's metre, of the Pand-náma of Farídu'd-Dín 'Attár, dedicated to Prince Báyazíd, son of Sultán Sulaymán I. See Flügel, Vienna Catalogue, vol. III, p. 415, and Rieu, B.M.T.C., pp. 154 and 261. Followed by miscellaneous Turkish and Arabic verses (ff. 37b-40b). Transcribed by Darwísh Safar, completed 1035/1625-6.

Incipit: مبدع كونين سلطان قديم ابتدا کردم بنام آن كريم
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 43
Dimensions (leaf): 19.8 × 13.6 cm.

Layout

15 lines

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Clear naskh, pointed, with rubrications.

History

Origin: 1035/1625-6 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

This MS. was presented to Professor Browne in April, 1908, by Dr Riza Tevfiq.

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

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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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