MS. Rawlinson Or. 5 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
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Contents
Summary of Contents: An incomplete history of the Ottoman state beginning with the riegn of Sulṭān ʻOs̱mān I Ġāzī and ending during the reign of Sulṭān Muḥammed II (a.k.a. Meḥmed II, Fātiḥ Sulṭān Meḥmed).Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. 61Dimensions (leaf): 18.7 × 14.3 cm.Layout
Single column of 16 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: "European handwriting" according to Ethé; a sort of clear Naskh written with a nibbed pen at a 45 degree angle.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Richard Rawlinson, d. 1755.
The Rawlinson bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1756.
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 1889-1953Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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