MS. Asiat. misc. d. 2 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Summary of Contents: One copy of the divan of Melayê Cizîrî

Language(s): Archaic Kurmanji Kurdish (in Arabic script) with some Arabic and Persian

Author: Melayê Cizîrî, 1570-1640 ملای جزیری

Incipit: ایرو ژ دربا خنجری لازم بایشان تشبیه زلفا دلبری زانم پریشان ملا

Colophon: قد تم دیوان الشیخ المحقق المدقق مولینا شیخ احمد الشهیر بالجزری امتثالا لامر الامیر الاعظم الامجد تاج رؤس الامراء والسلاطین النسیب الحسیب اعنی به موسی بیک بن المرحوم اسمعیل پاشا السر الله له ضریحه ما یشاء علا نامد الاقل عثمان العقروی اصلا لقبا بتاریخ سلخ شهر جماد الاول فی سنة اربعة و ثلثین ومائتین بعد الالف من هجرة النبویة علیه الصلوة والسلام فی کل یوم الف مرة

Language(s): Archaic Kurmanji Kurdish (in Arabic script) with some Arabic and Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 65 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 29.5 × 18.4 × 1.9 cm.

Layout

2 column of 15 lines per page on most pages with occasional single column couplets centred on the page and additional third colums written at an upwards angle in the middle

Hand(s)

Written in naskh in black ink by a certain ʿUthmān al-ʿAqrawī عثمان العقروی.

History

Origin: According to the colophon, the scribe hailed from ʿAqrah ( عقرة ʿAqra in Arabic; ئاكرێ Akrê in modern Kurdish), though we cannot be sure if this is where the manuscript was produced ; late Jumādā al-awwal 1234 AH; early March 1819 CE -- though the word read as مائتین (200) has been smudged, and might also be read as مائة (100), yeilding 1722 as opposed to 1819. Still, the presence of an amīr named Ismāʿīl Pasha in the region of ʿAqrah in the early half of the 1800s suggests the former reading is more likely.

Provenance and Acquisition

According to the colophon, made for a certain Mūsá Bēg bin Ismāʿīl Paşa موسی بیک بن اسماعیل پاشا -- the latter possibly referring to Amīr Ismāʿīl Paşa I of Zakho اسماعیل پاشا.

A note on the inside of the front cover reads "Bt (1.3.09) from J. J. Naaman".

Record Sources

Entry based on the observation of the manuscript by Nicholas Kontovas.

Availability

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS. Asiat. misc. d. 2 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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