MS. Pococke 15 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Pococke Collection
Contents
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.
Title: تحفة الاسرار فی طریق البحار
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
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
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