MS. Caps. Or. C. 11 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: Copy of a history of the Ottoman Sulṭāns from the rise to power of ʻOs̱mān I to the ascension of Murād III. Ethé notes that this extends twenty years beyond all other known copies of this work. Since the author is supposed to have died before completing it, this suggests either that the author lived longer than previously thought, or that this part of the text was added on by a later anonymous author.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 97
Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 14.3 cm.
Layout
Single columns of 11 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Splendid nastaʻlīq, fully vocalised throughout.
Decoration
Binding
History
Origin: No earlier than the date of the last event recounted in the chronicle, i.e. 987 AH; 1574 CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Bought from Howell and Stewart, London, 1827.
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
JISC
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