MS. Thurston 27 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: One nearly complete copy of an anonymous Ottoman Turkish version of the tales Seyyid Baṭṭāl Ġāzī سید بطال غازی, a legendary figure based on the 8th century CE Umayyad commander ‘Abd Allāh al-Baṭṭāl عبد الله البطال.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Author: anonymous
Title: Seyret-i Seyyid Baṭṭāl
Title: سیرت سید بطال
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Missing the first two folios.

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. 1182 § (49) 2087.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 197 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 21.3 × 14.6 mm.

Layout

Single column of 15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Nasta‘līḳ in black ink. Scribe(s) unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Dated mid Rebī‘ülāḫir 1051 AH; mid July 1641 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

Given by William Thurston, a merchant of London, in 1661.

Presented to the Bodleian Library in 1661 by William Thurston.

Record Sources

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.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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