MS. Sale 67a (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: The second half of Süheyli Efendi active 17th century's history of Egypt, beginning with Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520's war with the Mamluk sultans Qānṣūh al-Ghūrī, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1516 and Ṭūman Bāy, Mamlūk Sulṭān, active 1516-1517 and ending with the governorship of the Ottoman Ḳara Dāmād Muṣṭafā Paşa, -1628. According to Ethé (1930: 1171) a large portion of this work folio 5a onwards is a direct translation of Ibn Zunbul, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 16th century's Arabic work تأریخ وقعة الغوري Ta'rīkh waqʿat al-Ghūrī.
Author: Süheyli Efendi active 17th century سهیلی افندی Süheylī Efendi
Title: تاریخ مصر
Title: Tārīḫ-i Mıṣr
Title: تاریخ مصر و قاهره
Title: Tārīḫ-i Mıṣr ve Ḳāhire
Title: تاریخ مصر الجدید
Title: Tārīḫ-i Mıṣr el-cedīd
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
Incipit: folio 1b, line 1 جواهر حمد و سپاس بی‌قیاس ومنتهای بی‌منتهای الاساس

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. p. 1171 § (31) 2069
The whole work was published in early Ẕī-l-ḥicce 1142/late June 1730 in Istanbul by İbrahim Müteferrika, 1674?-1745, a digital copy of which can be accessed via Archive.org: Aḥmed Süheylī Efendi. Tārīḫ-i Mıṣr el-cedid ; Tārīḫ-i Mıṣr el-ḳadīm. [Istanbul: İbrāhim Müteferriḳa]. [1142 AH (=1730 AD)].

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 61
Dimensions (leaf): 19.7 × 14.3 cm.

Layout

Single column of 17 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Place of composition unknown. Undated, but logically no later than the last date mentioned in the work, i.e. 1032 AH; 1623 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.

Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.

The Radcliffe Library.

Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953

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