MS. Sale 50 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: An abridged translation of ابن خلکان Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282's Arabic work وفیات الاعیان Wafayāt al-a‘yān.
Translator: Rodosîzade Mehmet bin Mehmet, -1701 ردوسی زاده محمد بن محمد Rodosīzāde Meḥmed bin Meḥmed
Title: ترجمهٔ وفیات الاعیان
Title: Tercüme-i vefeyāt el-a‘yān
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
Incipit: سپاس بیپایان و ثناء فراوان اول خالق ان و جان جنابنه سزاوار
Filiation: An autograph copy of the fourth volume of this work can be found in Oxford Bodleian Libraries MS. Marsh 246.
Translation originally prepared for قره مصطفی پاشا Kara Mustafa Paşa, Merzifonlu, 1634-1683 in 1087 AH (1676/1677 CE).
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 243
Dimensions (leaf): 26 × 15.6 cm.
Layout
Single column of 27 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Naskh. Scribe unknown.
History
Origin: Place of origin unknown. Cannot have been made earlier than 1676/1677 CE; 1087 AH, when the text itself was completed.
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
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