Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. E. D. Clarke Or. 37 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

E. D. Clarke Collection

Contents

İnşā

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: İnşā
Title: انشاء
Incipit: پاشالردن شفقت نامه برای میر وزرایه ... شفقت نامه برای جزية ... تازیت‌نامه ... تعزیت‌نامه

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Models of epistolography, especially letters of condolence, petitions, etc. Beginning at once with a specimen, entitled: پاشالردن شفقت نامه برای میر وزرایه; the second, on fol. 2, is styled: شفقت نامه برای جزية, and so on. The margin is also occasionally filled with letters. The collection apparently concludes on fol. 61b, and the remaining leaves contain other letters, especially by Ḫāverī Efendi, a تازیت‌نامه (read تعزیت‌نامه), and short pieces of Turkish poetry.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 71 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 185.42 × approximately 12.7 cm.

Layout

1 column of 15 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: Dīvānī

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Edward Daniel Clarke, d. 1822.

Record Sources

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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