MS. Laud Or. 38 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Şāh ü Gedā

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: Şāh ü Gedā
Title: شاه و گدا
Incipit: سطر بسم الله اى اولو الألباب اولدی مفتاح قفل باب کتاب
Author: Yahyâ Bey, d. 1582 يحيی بگ

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King and beggar or king and dervīş, the fifth and most popular mes̠nevī of Yaḥyā's Ḫamse; comp. besides the authorities quoted above in No. 2136, W. Pertsch, pp. 190: and 191; Berlin Cat., pp. 406 and 407; G. Flügel i. p. 644 sq.; J. Aumer, p. 51; Fleischer, Cat. Dresd., p. 1ob, No. 76; Paris Cat., p. 335, etc. It has been printed in Constantinople AH 1284; extracts from the poem are given in Wickerhauser's Chrestomathie, p. 297 sq. Beginning: سطر بسم الله اى اولو الألباب اولدی مفتاح قفل باب کتاب. This copy is dated Şevvāl, AH 981 AD 1574, January-February, by Seyyid ʿAlī bin Muṣṭafā of Brusa (i.e. Bursa).

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. § (100) 2138.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 70 folios
Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

2 columns of 15 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: Nestaʿlīḳ; Scribe: Brusalı Seyyid ʿAlī bin Muṣṭafā بروسه‌لی سید علی بن مصطفی

Decoration

illuminated headpiece

History

Origin: 981 AH; 1574 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop William Laud, d. 1645.

Donated to the Bodleian Library by Archbishop William Laud, 1635-41.

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.

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