MS. Selden Superius 20 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Selden Collection

Summary of Contents: Fragment of another anonymous inşā containing similar specimens of epistolography chiefly complimentary notes recommendations letters of condolence etc.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: Kitāb-ı inşā der beyān-ı üslūb-ı mektūb ve siyāḳat-ı ʹarabī ve-raḳam-ı ṣūret-ı teselliyename

Title: كتاب انشا در بیان اوسلوب (= اسلوب) مکتوب و سیاقت عربی ورقم صورت تسلية‌نامه‌

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It is headed, like many preceding works (see Nos. 2174, 2176 etc.) هذا كتاب انشا در بیان اوشلوب (= اسلوب) مکتوب و سیاقت عربی ورقم صورت تسلية‌نامه‌در. The first letter, on fol 2b is: پادشاهلره شفقت نامه (letter of condolence to Pādişāhs); the second, on fol. 3a: پاشایه شفاعت نامه رای چاوشلق ایچون (letter of recommendation to a Paşa, for the post of a چاوش, see No. 2141 above); on the same page a شفاعت‌نامه to the Grand Vezīr; on fol. 3b: عرض حال پادشاه حضرتلرینه برای زوائر; on fol 4a: عرض حال پادشاه حضرتلرینه برای تقاعد وظیفه (various reports to the sovereign); on ff. 4b, 5a, and 5b various reports to the Grand Vezīr, etc. Various شفاعت‌نامه on the following pages; on fol. 9b, besides, an اشتیاج‌نامه and a نوع دیگر اشتیاق نامه (two specimens of love-letters).

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. § (148) 2186.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 12 folios

Dimensions (leaf): approximately 213.36 × approximately 15.24 cm.

Layout

1 column of 16 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: dīvānī

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Selden.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.

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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