MS. E. D. Clarke Or. 29 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
E. D. Clarke Collection
Contents
Kitāb-ı Temīm Dārī
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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The story of Temīm Dārī, one of the companions of Muḥammed, a mes̠nevī by an anonymous author, beginning: اول الله ديالوم کم اول بزه زوقن مقصوم ایلدی قامو مزه. In J. Aumer, p. 51, the same poem is noticed, styled داستان تمیم وار with some alterations in the first beyt. Turkish prose-versions of the same story are found in Rieu, p. 2332, No. X, and in the Paris Cat., No. 78; a Persian prose-version is preserved in the India Office Library, No. 910 (styled there sail). On the Arabic original comp. Rieu, loc. cit.; Loth, Arabic MSS., p. 300; Krafft, No. 151, etc.
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Physical Description
Layout
2 columns of 16 lines per page
Hand(s)
Script: Nesḫ
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Edward Daniel Clarke, d. 1822.
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