MS. Rawlinson Or. 22 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Rawlinson Collection
Contents
Miscellanies split into two different parts separated from one another by at least 100 blank leaves.
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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İnşā'-i marġūb ve maṭlūb انشاء مرغوب و مطلوب, on fol. 1b, containing specimens of elegant letters, especially of those exchanged between high officials. It is probably identical with or at least similar to the انشاء مرغوب of ʿAbdüllāh Şākir (see G. Flügel i. p. 256, and Krafft, No. 94); other İnşās انشاء of the same title, all more or less compiled on the same principle, are noticed in Rieu, p. 100 (by Seyyid Vaḥdetī Çelebī, about AH 1114-1116=AD 1702-1704); W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 469; Krafft, Nos. 100-113; C. J. Tornberg, No. 70; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, Nos. 585-589, and G. Flügel i. p. 257 (the last named is of very recent date, viz. AH 1252=AD 1836). The present collection contains, like ʿAbdüllāh Şākir's İnşā انشاء, in the Vienna copies, the usual counting tables in ciphers, as officially used, with their equivalents in common numerical figures.
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Fragment of an İnşā انشاء without a beginning, on fol. 29. At the end, as date, AH 1073 AD 1662/1663.
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Ta'rīḫāt تأریخات or chronograms, on ff. 51b and 52a, relating to AH 1075-1077, and 1091=AD 1664-1667, and 1680.
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Incoherent pieces. This portion, on ff. 53b-82a, contains incoherent pieces of prose and poetry, letters, ta'rīḫāt (for instance, on fol. 53b, some for AH 1073=AD 1662/1663, and AH 1075 AD 1664/1665), a list of the Turkish Sulṭāns with the dates of their accession (تواریخ نسل آل عثمان), on fol. 72b, etc.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of varying number of lines per page
Hand(s)
Script: Dīvānī
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Richard Rawlinson, d. 1755.
The Rawlinson bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1756.
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