MS. Pococke 15 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: One copy of a nautical treatise titled تحفة الاسرار فی طریق البحار Tuḥfetü l-esrār fī ṭarīḳı l-biḥār, compiled by حاجی محمد رٸیس Ḥācı Muḥammed Re'īs.

Author: حاجی محمد رٸیس Ḥācı Muḥammed Re'īs

Title: تحفة الاسرار فی طریق البحار

Title: Tuḥfetü l-esrār fī ṭarīḳı l-biḥār

Incipit: الحمد الله الثی خلق السّموات والارض الشمس والقمر والبحار

Explicit: قسطنطنیّه‌دن جزیرهٔ مرمره

Final rubric: بادیسدن سَپْتَه بوغازی نام موضعه

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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. col. 1181 § (46) 2084

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 28

Dimensions (leaf): 18.4 × 11.1 cm.

Condition

Most of flap missing; only half of the front edge cover remains.

Layout

Single column of 11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. The last entry is dated 1049 AH; 1639/1640 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Edward Pococke, d. 1691.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1692.

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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