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MS. Turk. d. 20 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: One copy of a hagiography of the Khojas of Kashgaria by محمد صادق کاشغری Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāšġarī, most commonly known as تذکرهٔ عزیزان Taz̲kira-yi ʻazīzān, followed by a single leaf (folio 165a-b) of anonymous Chaghatay poetry. Folios 163-164 are blank save red framing borders and some later scribbles.

1. folios 1a-162b

Author: Kāshgharī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq, active 1780 محمد صادق کاشغری Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāšġarī

Title: تذکرهٔ عزیزان

Title: Taẕkira-yi ‘azīzān

Title: تذکرهٔ خواجگان

Title: Taẕkira-yi ḫwājagān

Title: تذکر تهامن

Title: Taẕkiratu l-tahāman

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن رحیم جواهر حمد و ثنای بیقیاس و کواهر ستایخ و سپاس (folio 1b, line 1)

Explicit: کیل ای صادق تمام ایت بو سوزونکنی کتور قیلغان سوزونکا هم یوزونکنی (folio 162b, line 5)

Language(s): Late Eastern Chaghatay, sometimes known as "Eastern Turki", showing some influence from the spoken language in its evolution to Modern Uyghur.

Filiation: For other witnesses to the same work, see Oxford Bodleian Libraries MS. Ind. Inst. Turk. 3 (complete) and MS. Ind. Inst. Turk. 10 (partial).

References

Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. p. 87 § 126

2. folio 165a-b

Author: anonymous

Title: an anonymous Chaghatay poem

Language(s): Chaghatay

References

Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. p. 87 § 126

Hofman, Henry Franciscus. Turkish Literature: a bio-bibliographical survey. Section III. Moslim Central Asian Turkish literature being in the main a list of Chaghatayan authors and works in Chaghatay as registred in Professor M.F. Köprülü's article: Çagatay edebiyatı İA. vol. III (270-) with some additions, Navāʼīāna, however excepted. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht. 1969. p. iv. 20-23.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 165

Dimensions (leaf): 22.8 × 18.4 cm.

(folios 1-164)

Dimensions (leaf): 19.9 × 13.3 cm.

(folio 165)

Layout

Single column of 16 lines per page for folios 1a-164b.

Two columns of 11 lines each per page for folio 165a-b.

Hand(s)

Script: Poor Nasta‘līq in black ink with red ink for punctuation, overlines, words heading sections such as بیت bayt , شعر ši‘r , قصه qiṣṣa , and قطع qaṭ‘ , and the name of the Prophet. Scribe(s) unknown.

Decoration

Red framing borders throughout.

Floral frontispeice in green and red ink on folio 1b.

Floral doodles in black on the margins of folios 1b and 1b, as well as 164b and the inside back cover.

Additions: Considerable notes and marginalia on the inside covers and flyleaves in both black ink and pencil in Late Eastern Chaghatay in a relatively unsteady or unskilled hand.

History

Origin: Place and date of origin unknown, but likely 19th c. AD Kashgar.

Provenance and Acquisition

Given to the Library by R.F.C. Schomberg, 19 January 1934.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on: Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions). Contact specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript

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Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile) -- Digitised with funding from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Division, Widener Library at Harvard University

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Division, Widener Library at Harvard University

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