MS. Laud Or. 67 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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İnşā

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Author: İlyās of Anaṭolı Anaṭolılı İlyās آناطولیلی الیاس
Title: İnşā on letter-writing compiled by İlyās of Anaṭolı
Title: İnşā
Title: انشاء

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A third collection of specimens of letters and official documents of all kinds, comprising, besides those branches mentioned in No. 2173, also samples of عهد‌نامه (capitulations), اجازت‌نامه (passports for the departure of envoys and ambassadors), شکایت‌نامه (complaints), etc. The compiler was İlyās of Anaṭolı. It begins with a صورت السجل thus: نقلت عن الأصل الصحيح بلا زيادة و النقصان الخ. There are inserted in this İnşā انشاء many official letters, especially several exchanged between the Sublime Porte and the English Ambassador, one dated AH 1008=AD 1599/1600, on fol. 97b; another, dated AH 1012=AD 1603/1604, on fol. 86b. There also appear earlier dates, for instance, AH 988=AD 1580, on fol. 85a; an عهد‌نامهٔ سلیمان خان, on fol. 65b (Süleymān I reigned AH 926-974 AD 1520-1566); and a صورت حکم شریف برای فتح مصر on fol. 72b. Persian and Arabic words are explained on the margin.

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. § (137) 2175.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 103 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 20.32 × approximately 12.7 cm.

Layout

1 column of 15 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: Dīvānī

History

Origin: 1008 AH; 1599/1600 CE

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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