MS. Huntington. donat. 12 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Huntington Collection (donated)

Summary of Contents: One copy of an anonymous Ottoman Turkish Alexander the Great romance (i.e. اسکندرنامه İskendernāme)

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Author: anonymous

Title: İskendernāme

Title: اسکندرنامه

Incipit: هر کمڭ کم یُلدشی توفیق اوله هرنه سُز کم سُیله تحقیق اوله

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. 1193 § (69) 2107.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 217 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 29.5 × 19.7 cm.

Layout

Single column of 17 lines throughout.

Hand(s)

(hand 1) Script: Nesḫ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

(hand 2) Script: Nesḫ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

(hand 3) Script: Nesḫ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: place of origin unknown ; 1046 AH; 1636/7 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Presented to the Bodleian Library by Robert Huntington, d. 1701 between 1678-1683.

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

Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.--Legends

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