MS. Sale 39 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: A collection of short Turkish tales, anecdotes, and witty stories, many about Alexander the Great.
Author: عربي حقير ʻArabī-yi ḥaḳīr ʻArabī ḥaqīr
Title: اسكندرنامۀ لطيف مشتمل على حكايات غريبة وأمور عجيبة
Title: İskendernāme-i laṭīf-i müştemil ‘alā ḥikāyāt-i ġarībe ve ümūr-ı ‘acībe
Title: Iskandarnāmah-ʼi laṭīf mushtamil ʻalá ḥikāyāt gharībah wa-umūr ʻajībah

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

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. col. 1192-1193 § (68) 2106.

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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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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