MS. Marsh 61 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: An anonymous prose translation into Ottoman Turkish of نصر الله منشی Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Persian translation of کلیله و دمنه Kalīlah wa Dimnah, itself based on the Arabic translation (from either a Pahlavi or Sanskrit version) of ابن المقفع Ibn al-Muqaffa‘.
Author: Naṣr Allāh Munshī active 12th century = Abū al-Maʻālī Naṣr Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamīd Munšī Šīrāzī ابو المعالی نصر الله بن محمد بن حمید منشی سیرازی
Translator: anonymous
Title: کلیله و دمنه
Title: Kalīlah wa Dimnah
Title: Kelīle ve Dimne
Title: पञ्चतन्त्र
Title: Pañcatantra
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
Incipit: (folio 1b) سپاس و ستایش ایله قادرڭزدر جلّ جلاجه که آثار قدرتی روز روشن چهره‌سنده تاباندر

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. 1184-1184 § (51) 2089.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 122
Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 14.9 cm.

Layout

Single column of 19 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Naskh in black ink. Scribe(s) unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Dated Ẕīlḳa‘de 995 AH; October 1587 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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