MS. Ind. Inst. Turk. 21 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Indian Institute

Summary of Contents: One copy of a Chaghatay Sufi work title Manāqib-i Mašrab

Language(s): Chaghatay

Incipit: (basmala) بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم الحمد الله رب العالمین والعاقبة المتقین والصلواة والسلام علی رسول محمد واله واصحابه اجمعین

Incipit: راویات اخبار و ناقلان اثار انداغ روایت قیلورلار کیم حضرت شاه مشربوجودلاریغه کلیب تولّد تاپغانلاری‌نینک بیانی‌نی ایتورلار

Explicit: اواز کلادور که ای سعدین منینک وصیتیم‌نی نمه اوجون بجا کلتورکلی قویمای‌سیز دیلار شیخ سعدین ایتلار که ای بزرک‌وار حضرتلاری سالهای سال

The work ends abruptly mid-sentence on folio 87r. It is followed by a note in a much less careful hand, which reads: ملا نیاز اوی باغ‌نینک کتاب‌ی بو ترور.

Language(s): Chaghatay

References

Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. p. 81 § 116

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 87 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 21.1 × 11.5 cm.

Layout

1 column of 11 lines per page throughout.

Hand(s)

Taʿlīq in black ink with some red decorations. Scribe unknown.

History

Origin: A note in the back of the manuscript mentions the city of Yarkänd; 1266 AH; 1849/1850 CE, though this note is clearly made after the main body of the manuscript.

Provenance and Acquisition

A note on folio 87r suggests the manuscript once belonged to a certain Mullā Niyāz Öy Bāġ (?) ملا نیاز اوی باغ .

A note on folio 88r suggests the manuscript once belonged to a certain Tudï Niyāz Āḫūn تودی نیاز اخون (i.e. Turdï Niyāz Āḫūnd توردی نیاز اخوند) .

Record Sources

Description based on the observation of the manuscript by Nicholas Kontovas and the corresponding entry in Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Ind. Inst. Turk. 21 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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