MS. Bodl. Or. 403 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

A collection of anonymous stories in Ottoman Turkish.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Author: anonymous

Title: Ḥikāyāt

Title: حکایات

Incipit: حکایت اولنور که بر پادشاه بر اسیری اولدرمکلکه امر ایلدی

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. 1194 § (72) 2110.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 24 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 15.6 cm.

Layout

Single column of 9 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Nesḫ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Date of origin unknown, but written some time before its donation to the Bodleian no later than 1822. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian some time between 1695-1822.

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

Comments

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World