MS. Laud Or. 40 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Manṣūrnāme

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: Manṣūrnāme
Title: منصور نامه
Incipit: اوّل آنی ایدلوم كم حق در اول حى باقى واحد مطلق در اول
Author: anonymous

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A mes̠nevī in praise of the life, doctrines and martyrdom of the great mystic Şeyḫ Manṣūr-ı Baġdādī, i.e. Manṣūr Ḥallāj, or more correctly Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr Ḥallāj, see the Safīnat al-awliyā in the India Office Library, No. 660, fol. 92b, the apostle of the (I am God), who was executed in Baghdād, AH 309, 25th of Dhu-alka'dah AD 922, March 27, comp. ff. 7a last line, 41a lin. penult., 44a 1. 8, etc. His teacher, Shaykh Junayd (died AH 297, 27th of Receb AD 910, April 11, see Safīnat al-awliyā, fol. 29b), is mentioned on ff. 17a last line, 208 11. 2 and 9, etc. No author's name or date appears anywhere. Beginning: اوّل آنی ایدلوم كم حق در اول حى باقى واحد مطلق در اول. Copied AH 1015=AD 1606/1607. Presented to the Library by Archbishop Laud, 1633.

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. § (130) 2168.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 49 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 205.74 × approximately 15.24 cm.

Layout

2 columns of 11 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: Nesḫ

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

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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