Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Huntongton 507 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Huntington

Contents

Summary of Contents: A collection of anonymous poetic legends about the life of the Prophet, ‘Alī, Fāṭimah and the martyrdom of Ḥusayn in Old Anatolian Turkish or Archaic Ottoman.

Language(s): Old Anatolian/Archaic Ottoman Turkish

1. folios 1b-30b
Author: anonymous
Title: poem on the life of the Prophet Muḥammad in Old Anatolian Turkish
Incipit: چون یاشنده ایردی مصطفی اندی ییره ضنکه خورشید سما
Language(s): Old Anatolian/Archaic Ottoman Turkish

References

2. folios 31a-206a
Author: anonymous
Incipit: اوّل الله آدنی ذکر ایدالوم قدرتندن صنعتی فکر ایدالوم

One of several texts on the martyrdom of Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī which sometimes bears this title. A note on folio 205b, line 4 claims that the original mes̠nevī یدی یوز یتمش اُچنده در تمام, i.e. that it was completed between 9 May and 4 August 1369; whereas a similar note on folio 117a of an alternative version of this text in Bodleian Libraries MS. Laud 66 states the that یدی یوز آلتمش اوچندیدی تمام, i.e. that it was originally completed between 26 August and 22 November 1359. The language of the text suggests that it is the same as the Maḳtel-i Ḥüseyn popularly attributed to either Yūsuf-ı Meddāḥ, Şādī Meddāḥ, a certain Ḳasṭamonılı Şāẕī, a certain ‘Āşıḳī, or a certain Lūṭ oġlı Yaḥyā. Supporting this claim is the fact that some manuscripts with the same title (e.g. Ankara Milli Kütüphane manuscript no. 06 hk 2976/1) bear the same first couplet.

Filiation: Another version of this work appears in Bodleian Libraries MS. Laud Or. 66.
Language(s): Old Anatolian/Archaic Ottoman Turkish

References

5. folio 234b-236a
Author: anonymous
Incipit: تنبیه ایدڭ عاشقلره مولود آیی کلدی ینه

Ethé (1930:§2123) lists this item as number 4, which he collapses into one paragraph with 5.

Language(s): Old Anatolian/Archaic Ottoman Turkish

References

6. folio 236b-275a
Author: anonymous
Incipit: بحمد الله اول خلّاق دانه حکیم و عالم و حی و توانه

Ethé (1930:§2123) lists this item as number 5, which he collapses into one paragraph with 4.

Language(s): Old Anatolian/Archaic Ottoman Turkish

References

8. folio 279b-320b
Author: anonymous
Incipit: اوّل الله آدنی یاد ایدلوم عشقنی کونولده بنیاد ایدلوم

This is listed as item 6 in Ethé (1930:§2123).

Language(s): Old Anatolian/Archaic Ottoman Turkish

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 312 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 14.6 cm.

Layout

Two columns of 11 to 16 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Script: Nesḫ in black ink. Written in multiple hands. Scribes unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. According to a note on folio 207a, at least part of the manuscript was completed on 1 Rabī‘u l-evvel 991 AH; 25 March 1583 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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