MS. Rawl. Or. 31 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Rawlinson Collection

Summary of Contents: One copy of شیخ‌زاده احمد مصری Şeyḫzāde Aḥmed Mıṣrī's حکایات قرق وزیر Ḥikāyāt-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr, an Ottoman Turkish translation of the anonymous Arabic stories known as اربعین صباح ومساء Arba‘īn Ṣabāḥ wa-Masā', which are themselves an expanded reworking of the سندبادنامه Sindbādnāmah.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Author: anonymous

Translator: Şeyḫzāde Aḥmed Mıṣrī شیخ‌زاده احمد مصری = Şeyḫoġlı (Şeyḫoġlu) شیخ اوغلی

Title: Ḥikāyāt-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr

Title: حکایات قرق وزیر

Title: Ḳırḳ Vezīr Kitābı

Title: قرق وزیر کتابی

Title: Şāhnāme-i Türkī

Title: شاهنامهٔ ترکی

Filiation: A very similar version of the same text can be found in Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Special Collections, Asian and Middle Eastern Manuscripts, MS. Bodl. Or. 477.

Apparently a second version of شیخ‌زاده احمد مصری Şeyḫzāde Aḥmed Mıṣrī's translation. A similar text in another manuscript (see MS. Bodl. Or. 477, folios 2a-b) bears a dedication to سلطان محمد بن مراد خان بن محمد بن بایزید Ṣulṭān Meḥmed bin Murād Ḫān bin Meḥmed bin Bāyezīd (i.e. Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481); whereas the most popular version is the original, which was dedicated to the previous Sultan, Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451, and copied and circulated widely during his reign.

Incipit: خافقین و خاتون و وزیرلر قیامته دکن دعایله اکلسار پس شمدی بیزوم شاهمز داخی طوّل الله تعالی عمره و ختم بالخیر امره شمدکیحالده [...]

Language(s): 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. 1188-1189 § (62) 2100.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 159 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 28.6 × 18.7 cm.

Layout

Single column of 15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Script: Splendid Nesta‘līḳ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Place and date of origin unknown, but possibly copied during the reign of Meḥmed II, i.e. 1432-1481 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Richard Rawlinson, d. 1755.

The Rawlinson bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1756.

Record Sources

Description based on 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

Subjects

Tales, Medieval

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