MS. Bodl. Or. 632 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: One collection of Christian prayers and invocations to saints written in Ottoman Turkish in Syriac script. Several pages in Syriac-script Turkish and Arabic in a second, less careful hand, mostly supplications to God, the Virgin Mary, and John the Baptist.

Author: anonymous

Title: Christian prayers in Syriac-script Ottoman Turkish

Title: Preces, sermone Turcice, charactere Syriaco

Incipit: (folio 2b, line 1) ܒܣܡ ܐܠܐܒ ܘܐܠܐܒܢ ܘܐܠܪܘܚܐܠܩܕܣ ܐܠܐܗ ܘܐܚܕ

Filiation: Two other manuscripts in Oxford Bodelain Libraries' Asian and Middle Eastern Manuscripts Collection contain at least a portion of the same text: MS. Bodl. Or. 668 (complete) and MS. Bodl. Or. 693 (partial).

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish in Syriac Serṭā script with some Syriac

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. 1266 § (235) 2273.

Author: anonymous

Title: Notes in Ottoman Turkish in Syriac script and Arabic

Language(s): Two separate sections in Ottoman Turkish in Syriac Serṭā script with an intervening passage in Arabic.

References

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: offwhite ragstock

Extent: i + 155 folios + i

Dimensions (leaf): 17.1 × 10.3 × 2.3 cm.

Foliation: Original foliation in Arabic numerals at the top outer corner of each page in green ink.

Condition

One bottom corner of folio 1 is torn off and missing. Several of the pages, especially towards the end, show evidence of light water damage or wearing of the ink.

Layout

Single column of 16 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Hand one: Scribe unknown. Syriac Serṭā script in black ink with purple ink for some punctuation, headings, certain proper names, and some prayers and formulae, as well as green ink for come punctuation, page numbers and headings. One or two section headings in light blue ink.

Hand two: Scribe unknown. Syriac Serṭā script in black ink, considerably less well-trained and much more careless than the first hand. Simple Arabic naskh in black ink.

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece.

History

Origin: Date and place of origin unknown. The Syriac script in the second item is especially careless and difficult to read, but does not appear to include any information regarding the origin of either text.

Provenance and Acquisition

Probably formerly part of the library of Bishop W. H. Mill.

Possibly purchased by the Bodleian in 1858.

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

Christian saints--Prayers and devotions

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