MS. Bodl. Or. 368 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts

A Turkish scrap-book

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: A Turkish scrap-book

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Extracts in prose and verse, gathered from various sources, and containing incantations, short prayers, a few hymns (el), and tracts on nativities and horoscopes. On fol. 18: هذا طالع مولود بو در. The whole is absolutely valueless; Jacob Tollius got it ex illustrissimi Domini D. Nicolai Comitis Serrinii donatione,' at Vienna, 1660, and the same Tollius presented Henr. Chr. de Hennin with it in 1695; see above, No. 2267 and the immediately following copy, No. 2297.

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. § (258) 2296.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 46 folios

Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

1 column of varying number of lines per page

Hand(s)

(Hand 1) Script: Nesḫ

(Hand 2) Script: dīvānī

History

Origin: unknown

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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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World