MS. Bodl. Or. 693 (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.

Author: anonymous

Title: Christian prayers in Syriac-script Ottoman Turkish

Filiation: Two other manuscripts in Oxford Bodelain Libraries' Asian and Middle Eastern Manuscripts Collection contain complete versions of the same text: MS. Bodl. Or. 668 and MS. Bodl. Or. 632.

Ethé(1930. col. 1266) suggests that the entirety of this text corresponds to that in the other two manuscripts in the Bodleian, but only seems to have examined the first three prayers. Confirmation of the degree of similarity of this text to the others, and ascertainment of the presence or absence of additional texts await further study.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish in Syriac Serṭā script

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 § (236) 2274.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: offwhite ragstock

Extent: i + 30 folios + i

Dimensions (leaf): 16.5 × 10.8 cm.

Condition

One bottom corner of folio 1 is torn off and missing. Several of the pages towards the beginning and end show evidence of moisture damage.

Layout

Single column for most pages with a widely varying number of lines per page, usually between 11 and 17.

Hand(s)

Script: Careless Syriac Serṭā in black ink with light red ink for some section headings. Bears some resemblence to the hand of the second item in MS. Bodl. Or. 632.

History

Origin: Date and place of origin unknown.

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian sometime between 1695 and 1883.

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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