MS. Bodl. Or. 197 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: A copy of the 1675 treaty between the Ottoman Sulṭān Meḥmed IV and Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.

Author: Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693 = سلطان محمد رابع Sulṭān Meḥmed-i rābi‘ (Sulṭān Muḥammed-i rābi‘) = آوجی سلطان محمد Avcı Sulṭān Meḥmed

Title: Nişān-ı şerīf-i ‘ālīşān sāmī mekān-ı sulṭānī ve ṭuġra-yı ġarrā-yı cihānistān-ı ḫāḳānī

Title: نیشان شریف عالیشان سامی مکان سلطانی و طغرای غرّای جهان‌ستان خاقانی

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

(anonymous). (1679). The Capitulations and Articles of Peace between the Majesty of the King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, etc. and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as they have been augmented and altered in the times of several ambassadors, and particularly as they have been renewed, augmented, and amplified at the City of Adrianople in the month of January 1661/2, by Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea, Ambassador Extraordinary from his Majesty : And also as they have been since renewed in the Month of September 1675 : With divers additional Articles and Priviledges, by Sir John Finch, Knight, Ambassador in Ordinary to Sultan Mahomet Han, the most puissant Prince and Emperour of the Turks. London: Printed for J.S..

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 55

Dimensions (leaf): 14 × 7.6 cm.

Layout

Single column of 9 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Dīwānī. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Unknown, but perhaps the same as the authentic copy, MS Bodl. Or. 256, i.e. Edirne/Adrianopolis; mid Cemādī el-āḫir 1080 AH; late September 1675 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

Given to the Bodleian Library by William Wood, fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 22 April 1752.

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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