MS. Sale 66 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: Copy of Ḫvāce Mollā Saʻdeddīn Muḥammed Efendi bin Ḥasancān's history of the Ottoman dynasty from its origin to the reign of Sulṭān Selīm I, compiled during the reign of Selīm II and dedicated to Murād III.
Title: Tac-üt-tevarih
Title: Tācü l-tevārīḫ
Title: تاج التواریخ
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 481
Dimensions (leaf): 25.4 × 16.5 cm.
Layout
Single column of 27-29 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Nastaʻlīq. Scribe: Muḥammed bin Muṣṭafā Ḥasībzāde محمد بن مصطفی حسیب زاده .
History
Origin: Istanbul; 10 Receb 1018 AH; 9 October 1609 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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