MS. Selden Superius 8 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: An anonymous collection of stories about Nasreddin, Hoca, active 13th century.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Author: anonymous
Title: Ḥikāyet-i Naṣreddīn Ḫvāce
Title: حکایت نصر الدین خواجه
Title: Leṭā'if-i Ḫvāce Naṣreddīn
Title: لطاٸف خواجه نصر الدین
Incipit: (folio 1a, line 1) بر کون خواجه منبره چقوب وعظ ایدرکن [...]
Filiation: The Asian and Middle Eastern Special Collections at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries holds at least seven manuscripts of Nasreddin Hoca stories in Ottoman Turkish: MS. Bodl. Or. 627, MS. Bodl. Or. 185, MS. Laud. Or. 178, MS. Selden Superius 8 (this manuscript), MS. Marsh 42, MS. Bodl. Or. 192, and MS. Bodl. Or. 85.
Language(s): Colloquial Ottoman Turkish.

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. 1187 § (56) 2095.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 50 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 14.9 × 10.2 mm.

Layout

Single column of 7 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Large nesta‘līḳ. Scribe(s) unknown.

History

Origin: Place and date of origin unknown.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of John Selden.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Selden's estate in 1659.

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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