MS. Marsh 179 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: One autograph (?) copy of a trilingual Ottoman Turkish, Latin, and Hungarian poetic risāle in praise of Islam by Murād the Interpreter.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish, Hungarian, and Latin, all three in both Latin and Arabic script

Author: Tercümān Murād ترجمان مراد
Murād-ı tercümān مراد ترجمان
Murād Beğ bin ʹAbdüllāh مراد بگ بن عبد الله
Murād the Interpreter
Balázs Somlyai

Title: trilingual Ottoman Turkish, Latin, and Hungarian poetic risāle in praise of Islam

Title: Hymnus Turcicé, Latiné et Hungaricé

Rubric: دیباچه در سبب تالیف رساله

Incipit: بسم الله الرحم الرحیم

Incipit: چو بسم الله ایله سوره کیرلدی
پس آنی دڭلمك لازم کورلدی

A prose note in three languages on folio 3a identifies the text and suggests it is an autograph, whence the Ottoman Turkish reads: بو رساله اوج دیل اوزره منظوم تطبیق اولنمشدر ترجمان مراد الندن ترجمه اتمك و یازمق یونندن

A facsimile of this manuscript is available in Babinger et al., 1927.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish, Hungarian, and Latin, all three in both Latin and Arabic script

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. 1206 § (96) 2134.

Babinger, Franz, Gragger, Robert, Mittwoch, Eugen and Mordtmann, J. H.. Literaturdenkmäler aus Ungarns Türkenzeit: Nach Handschriften in Oxford und Wien, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1927.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 22 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 28.6 × 20.3 cm.

Layout

2 columns of 15 lines per page on folios 1b-3a.

3 columns of 27 lines per page (13 interlinear Arabic-script lines) on folios 3b-22a.

Hand(s)

Script (Arabic): Nesta‘līḳ in black in with red ink for headings and prose notes. Script (Latin): Minimally cursive Renaissance bastard hand. Scribe: likely the author, Murād the Interpreter.

Additions:

Account keeping in Ottoman Turkish for what appear to be kitchenware items in the margins of folio 3a.

History

Origin: Babinger (1927: 42) argues that this manuscript is an autograph copy by Murād the Interpreter himself, and dates it on the basis of the text to May 1580 and 5 December 1582 CE.

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Marsh 179 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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