MS. Sale 33 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Sale Collection
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
Title: Hevesnāme
Title: هوسنامه
Title: Muḥabbetnāme
Title: محبتنامه
Incipit: سپاس و شکر اول یزدان پاکه
که اولدر جان ویرن بو مشت خاکه
که اولدر جان ویرن بو مشت خاکه
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
2. folio 121b
Title: Ta'rīḫ-i köşk-i Sinān Paşa
Title: تأریخ کوشك سنان پاشا
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
References
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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