MS. Marsh 246 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: The fourth volume of an abridged translation of ابن خلکان Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282's Arabic work وفیات الاعیان Wafayāt al-a‘yān. According to the colophon (folio 120a, lines 14-15), this is an autograph (i.e. penned by Rodosîzade Mehmet bin Mehmet, -1701 himself).
Author: ابن خلکان Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282
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 with some quotes in Arabic

Translation originally prepared for قره مصطفی پاشا Kara Mustafa Paşa, Merzifonlu, 1634-1683 in 1087 AH (1676/1677 CE).

Filiation: An apparently non-autograph copy of the full text of this work can be found in Oxford Bodleian Libraries MS. Sale 50.

References

Ethé, Hermann. Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî and Pushtû Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Part II: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and Additional Persian Manuscripts. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1930. p. 1175 § (37) 2075

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 120
Dimensions (leaf): 24.8 × 15.2 cm.

Layout

Single column of 21 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Nasta‘līq, black ink with red ink for headings, personal names, and quotes in Arabic. Scribe: Rodosîzade Mehmet bin Mehmet, -1701 ردوسی زاده محمد بن محمد Rodosīzāde Meḥmed bin Meḥmed .

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. According to the colophon, completed in 7 February 1681 CE; 23 Şa‘bān 1092 AH.

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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

JISC

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