MS. Laud Or. 147 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Laud Collection

One copy of the second volume of an anonymous book of tales.

This may be a translation of an earlier Arabic work, but note that it is different in content to the Arabic tales by Muḥammad ibn ‘Umar al-Ḥalabī محمد بن عمر الحلبی, as well as other works on ethics with the same title.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish with chapter titles in Persian

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. 1190-1191 § (64) 2102.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 176 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 34.9 × 19.7 cm.

Layout

Single column of 15 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nesta‘līḳ in black ink with red ink for section headings in most of the manuscript.

Nesḫ in black ink with red ink for section headings on folios 136a-165b.

Scribes unknown, but likely two separate hands.

History

Origin: Date and place of origin unknown, but likely 16th century CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop William Laud, d. 1645.

Donated to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop William Laud, 1635-41.

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.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

Tales, Medieval

Comments

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World