MS. Asiat. misc. e 2 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Devotional poems about the Prophet Muḥammad and prayers in Arabic-script Greek

Language(s): Greek in Arabic script with some Arabic and Ottoman Turkish words and phrases interspersed

Author: Aḥmed bin el-Ḥācī Yūsuf
Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥājī Yūsuf
احمد بن الحاجی یوسف

Title: Devotional poems about the Prophet Muḥammad and prayers in Arabic-script Greek

Incipit: (basmala) بِسْمِ اللهِ الّرَحمٰنِ الّرَحٰیمِ

Incipit: شُکْرٰی اِکْتوُپْمٖاسْ اَذُو کَه سْتٰی لِبْستٖی هِدَایتی

Language(s): Greek in Arabic script with some Arabic and Ottoman Turkish words and phrases interspersed

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: ii flyleaves + 102 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 19.4> × 14.3 × 1.7 cm.

Layout

1 column of 11 lines per page on most pages.

Hand(s)

Naskh in black ink. The colophon on folio 99a describes the scribe as el-faḳīr Aḥmed bin el-Ḥācī Yūsuf الفقیر احمد بن الحاجی یوسف , who may or may not also be the author of this work.

Additions:

Marginalia in Ottoman Turkish on folio 102b reads: دارنده قضاسنده حاجی درویش محله‌سنده اوجاقچی زاده علی مخدومی محمد علی.

Marginalia in Ottoman Turkish on the back cover reads: دارنده قضاسنده حاجی درویش محله‌سنده الوان زاده حسن افندینك خانه‌سنده ۱۲ تشرین اول پرشنبه کونی کیجه ساعت الاتورکه بره اون قاله اودایه چیقدیم حسن بك و مصطفی بکلری کوزلیوردم افندم سر محرر. (The signature which follows is illegible.)

History

Origin: Several marginalia on the flyleaves and later folios mention events which took place "Dārende ḳażāsında Ḥacī Dervīş maḥallesinde" (دارنده قضاسنده حاجی درویش محله‌سنده) i.e. in the Hacıderviş neighbourhood of the town of Darende in present day Malatya, Turkey, though it is unclear if the manuscript also originated there.; Per the colophon, the manuscript was completed on 12 Kānūn-i s̠ānī (1)226, i.e. 12 January 1812 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Per marginalia on folio 102b, this manuscript appears to have spent some time in the possession of one Ocaḳcızāde ʿAlī Efendi Maḫdūmī اوجاقجی زاده علی افندی مخدومی of the Hacıderviş neighbourhood of the town of Darende in present day Malatya, Turkey.

Purchased from Thornton's, January 1974. Sold erroneously as "Kurdish religious poems".

Record Sources

Entry based on the observation of the manuscript by Nicholas Kontovas.

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Asiat. misc. e 2 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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