MS. Rawl. Or. 33 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
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Contents
Summary of Contents: 198 letters in Ottoman Turkish and Italian comprising official correspondence between English ambassador to the Sublime Porte William Trumbull and many high-ranking Ottoman officials (including Sulṭān Süleymān II and his Ṣadra‘ẓam Köprülüzāde Fāżıl Muṣṭafā Paşa), including letters addressed from the latter parties to other foreign dignitaries. Why some of this correspondence has been rendered in Italian is unknown.Author: Trumbull, William, -1635Author: Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Paşa, 1637-1691 Köprülüzāde Fāżıl Muṣṭafā Paşa کوپریلوزاده فاضل مصطفی پاشاAuthor: Various authorsLanguage(s): Ottoman Turkish and ItalianReferences
Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. 319; ff. 207b-211a are blankDimensions (leaf): 20.3 × 30.8 cm.Layout
Single column of 13-14 lines per page throughout for the Ottoman Turkish text.
Hand(s)
Arabic Script: Dīwānī. Latin Script: Italic Copperplate. Scribes unknown.
History
Origin: likely Istanbul; 8 Şevvāl 1098 to 2 Şevvāl 1102 AH; 17 August 1687 to 29 June 1691 CEProvenance 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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