MS. D'Orville 543 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: One copy of پیری رٸیس Pīrī Re'īs's بحریه Baḥriye, a topographical survey of the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 142
Dimensions (leaf): 29.5 × 20.3 cm.
Foliation: Ethé (1930: 1177-1179 § (41) 2079)) suggests that the folios as they are are out of order, with some having being rearranged upside-down.
Layout
Single column of 27 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: careful Nasta‘līq in black ink with red ink for section headings and place names. Scribe(s) unknown.
Decoration
Many maps throughout in black, blue, green, red, and yellow inks.
History
Origin: Completed in late December 1587 CE; late Muḥarrem 996 CE, possibly in ; Dersa‘ādet (İstanbul).
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Jacques Philippe D'Orville, d. 1751.
Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1804.
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
Subjects
- Islands of the Mediterranean
- Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
- Military topography
- Mediterranean Coast (Turkey)
- Mediterranean Coast (Israel)
- Mediterranean Coast (Spain)
- Mediterranean Coast (Egypt)
- Mediterranean Coast (Corsica, France)
- Mediterranean Coast (Italy)
- Mediterranean Coast (Algeria)
- Mediterranean Coast (Sardinia, Italy)
- Mediterranean Coast (Libya)
- Mediterranean Coast (France)
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