MS. Sale 46 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Sale Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: One copy of علي چلبی بن صالح ʿAlī Çelebi bin Ṣāliḥ's همایوننامه Hümāyūnnāme, a retelling of the story of کلیله و دمنه Kalīlah wa Dimnah based loosely on the Persian paraphrase known as انوار سهیلی Anvār-i Suhaylī by حسین واعظ کاشفی Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī.
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
Title: همایوننامه
Title: Hümāyūnnāme
Incipit: (folio 1b) حضرت حلیم خلّاق و حکیم علی الاطلاق جلّت حکمته که وظاٸف لطاٸف حمد ثنای [...]
Filiation: Another copy of the same text can be found in Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Special Collections, Asian and Middle Eastern Manuscripts, MS. Clarke 10.
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 249 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 27 × 16.5 mm.
Layout
Single column of 25 lines per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Small but clear nesta‘līḳ. Scribe: بروسهلی محمد بن ابراهیم بن الیاس Brusalı Muḥammed bin İbrāhīm bin Ilyās.
Decoration
Illuminated frontispiece.
History
Origin: Exact place of origin unknown, but perhaps Bursa, given the nisba of the scribe ; 27 Ramaẓān 971 AH; 9 May 1564 CE.
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.
Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.
The Radcliffe Library.
Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.
Record Sources
Availability
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