MS. Laud Or. 177 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Laud Collection

İnşā

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: İnşā on Arabic letter-writing

Title: İnşā

Title: انشاء

Author: anonymous

Incipit: الوف تحيات صافیات محبت افزون و صنوف تسليمات وافيات الخ

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Another anonymous collection of similar specimens of letter-writing, headed: هذا كتاب انشا در بیان اسلوب سیاقت عربی و رقم و شفقت نامه الخ. Beginning of the first letter: الوف تحيات صافیات محبت افزون و صنوف تسليمات وافيات الخ. No date. Some lacunas here and there.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930. § (136) 2174.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 66 folios

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

1 column of 11 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: Dīvānī

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop William Laud, d. 1645.

Donated to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop William Laud, 1635-41.

Record Sources

Description based on Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930.

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World