MS. Bodl. Or. 234 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: Official reports of correspondence between the Ottoman Ṣadra‘ẓam and high ranking functionaries, including Ottoman Turkish translations/transcriptions of letters from the English ambassador to the Sublime Porte.

Author: Various authors

Title: Collection of administrative and diplomatic correspondence involving the Ottoman Ṣadra‘ẓam

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

Ethé 2065

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 51; many blank pages at the back of the codex

Dimensions (leaf): 20.3 × 13.2 cm.

Layout

Single column of 13 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Dīwānī. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Likely written in Istanbul; ; 1093-1096 AH; 1682-1685 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired some time between 1685 and 1883.

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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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Bodl. Or. 234 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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