MS. Laud Or. 70 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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İnşā

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

1.
Title: letters exchanged between Beglerbegs and Begs or Ḳāḍīs of Sancaḳs
Title: İnşā
Title: انشاء
Author: anonymous

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A collection of letters exchanged between Beglerbegs and Begs or Ḳāḍīs of Sancaḳs. Heading: و هذا کتاب انشا در بیان اسلوب مکتوب سیاقت عربی و رقم. At the end, on ff. 77-83, the usual counting tables, with instructions how to express numbers in letters, etc., styled در بیان سیاقت عربی و رقم and going from 1 to 900,000,000. Copied AH 1007=AD 1598/1599.

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. § (138) 2176.
2.

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The first letter dates from the time of Sulṭān Bāyazid II (AH 886-918=AD 1481-1512). On ff. 57b-59b the usual صورت حساب سياقت مع رقم which goes here from 1 to طقسان یوز بیک کره یوز بیک کره) 90,000,000,000,000). No date. This manuscript came into Archbishop Laud's library, 1635.

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. § (140) 2178.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 24 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 17.78 × approximately 12.7 cm.

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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