MS. Marsh 61 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Marsh Collection
Contents
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‘.
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
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.
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