MS. Sale 37 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Sale Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: One collection of anecdotes and poems by بروسهلی محمود بجن عثمان بن علی لامعی چلبی Brusalı Maḥmūd bin ‘Os̠mān bin ‘Alī Lāmi‘ī Çelebī collected, edited, and expanded by his son عبد الله محمود بجن عثمان بن علی ‘Abdullāh bin Maḥmūd bin ‘Os̠mān bin ‘Alī .
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
Title: Leṭā'if-i Lāmi‘ī
Title: لطاٸف لامعی
Incipit: (folio 2b, line 1) لطاٸف شکر و سپاس و شراٸب بیقیاس اول خالق الجنّت و الناسه
The work itself is dedicated to قانونی سلطان سلیمان Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān (i.e. Süleyman ,Sultan of the Turks, d. 1494 or 1495-1566).
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 176 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 25.1 × 15.9 cm.
Layout
Two columns of 15 lines each per page.
Hand(s)
Script: Nesta‘līḳ in black ink.
Scribes unknown, but at least two distinct hands.
Decoration
Illuminated frontispiece
History
Origin: Place of origin unknown. Dated 1 Ṣafer 966 AH; 13 November 1558 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
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