R.13.40 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

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1 copy of Miftāḥ al-jannat

The Key of Paradise, a series of moral and entertaining lessons in Turkish, divided into eight chapters.

Incipit: الحمد لله والسلام على خير خلقه اجمعين وعلى التابعين إلى يوم الدين اما بعد بوندن صکره بو كتاب اهل إسلامه اكوت ونصيحت اولوب الخ

Explicit: یعنی اول گنالو اشلین کمشیلر ایچوندن در ان الله یغفر الذنوب جمعیا انه هو الغفور الرحيم وبه نستعين

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

no. 1220

Palmer, pp. 87-88

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Unglazed paper

Extent: 110 ff.

Hand(s)

A fair Turkish Naskh

History

Origin: 982

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Trinity College Cambridge

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