MS. Thurston 21 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
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Contents
İnşā'-i Oḳçızāde
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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A small collection of specimens and models for letterwriting, both official and familiar, by Muḥammed bin Muḥammed Oḳçızāde, with the taḫalluṣ of Şāhī, who died AH 1039 AD 1629/1630. Beginning: دولتلو و سعادتلو و مرحمتلو سلطانم حضرتلرینگ الخ. Larger collections of letters by the same Oḳçızāde are described in Rieu, p. 97; W. Pertsch, p. 208, and Berlin Cat., pp. 58 and 59; G. Flügel i. p. 285; Krafft, p. 29, No. 88; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, pp. 530 and 540; Hammer, Geschichte des Osman. Reiches, ix. p. 248, No. 166, etc. Copied in Ẕī l-ḳaʿde, AH 1052=AD 1643, Jan./Feb., by Muḥammed bin ʿAbdüllāh.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of 11 lines per page
Hand(s)
Script: dīvānī
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Provenance unknown but not given by Thurston [see Summary Catalogue, 2.ii, 798-801].
Presented to the Bodleian Library in 1661 by William Thurston, a merchant of London, in 1661.
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