Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Laud Or. 175 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Laud Collection

Contents

A scrap-book of Turkish poetry interspersed with a few prose pieces

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

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A scrap-book of Turkish poetry interspersed with a few prose pieces merely a rough compilation several pages of which are only filled with one or two lines. A great number of poems are by Nesīmī (died AH 820 AD 1417, see No. 2152 above), viz. on ff. 3b10b, 128-14a, and 24-33b; muḫammesāt on ff. 15b18b. Presented to the Library by Archbishop Laud, 1635.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 47 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 15.24 × approximately 7.62 cm.

Layout

1 column of varying number of lines per page

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop William Laud, d. 1645.

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

Record Sources

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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