MS. Sale 64 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Sale Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A copy of Edirneli Muḥammed bin Muḥammed's Nuḫbatü l-tevārīḫ ve l-aḫbār, a history of Muslim dynasties in two parts. The first spans from the time of the Prophet to the various immediate predecessors and contemporaries of the Ottomans, whereas the second is an account of the Ottoman dynasty until the death of Aḥmed I. Work completed in originally completed in 1028/1619 and dedicated to the Ottoman Sulṭān ʻOs̱mān II in 1030/1621.
Title: Nuhbet-üt-tevarih vel-ahbar
Title: نخبة التواريخ و الاخبار
Title: Nuḫbetü l-tevārīḫ ve l-aḫbār
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 296
Dimensions (leaf): 29.9 × 15.9 cm.
Layout
1 column of 29 lines throughout.
Hand(s)
Script: Naskh. Scribe: کاظم بن احمد النقیب Kāẓım bin Aḥmed el-naḳīb.
Decoration
Illuminated frontispiece.
Binding
History
Origin: ; 1099 AH; 1688 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
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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