MS. Sale 33 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: One copy of Caʻfer Çelebi, Tâcî-zâde, 1452-1515's Hevesnāme and a chronogram for the building of the mansion of Sinân Paşa, Koca, ca. 1520-1596.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

1. folios 1b-121b
Author: Caʻfer Çelebi, Tâcî-zâde, 1452-1515
Tācīzāde Ca‘fer Çelebī تاجی‌زاده جعفر چلبی
Title: Hevesnāme
Title: هوسنامه
Title: Muḥabbetnāme
Title: محبت‌نامه
Incipit: سپاس و شکر اول یزدان پاکه
که اولدر جان ویرن بو مشت خاکه
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. 1204-1205 § (94) 2132.
2. folio 121b
Author: anonymous
Title: Ta'rīḫ-i köşk-i Sinān Paşa
Title: تأریخ کوشك سنان پاشا
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. 1205 § (94) 2132.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 121 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 24.13 × 15.6 cm.

Layout

Two contiguous columns of 17 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

(Hand 1, folios 1b-121b) Script: Splendid nesta‘līḳ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

(Hand 2, folio 121b) Script: Splendid nesta‘līḳ in black ink. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Given the date on the chronogram, penned no earlier than 999 AH; 1591 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.

Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.

The Radcliffe Library.

Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.

Record Sources

Description written by Kontovas, Nicholas 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.

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JISC

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