MS. Sale 39 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Sale
Contents
Summary of Contents: A collection of short Turkish tales, anecdotes, and witty stories, many about Alexander the Great.
Ethé (1930: col. 1193) notes many lacunae in the text, and suggests that this is only half of a larger work of which the rest has been lost.
Incipit: بعد از حمد خدای ذی الجلال * میتواند بر زبان ما مجال * باد بیحد و بلا غایه درود [...]
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish with occasional Persian
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 85
Layout
Single column of 29-31 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Nesḫ.
History
Origin: Date and place of origin unknown.
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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