MS. Marsh 43 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A collection of historical miscellanies stories and tracts.

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

1.
Title: A compendium of general history
Incipit: حضرت آدم علیه السلام جمعه کونی روح شریفی داخل اولدوغندن اوتورى الخ

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A compendium of general history, from Adam to the accession of Sulṭān Muḥammed IV bin İbrāhīm Ḫān bin Aḥmed Ḫān, A. H. 1058=A. D. 1648, see No. 2288, 7, without preface or compiler's name. The principal dates and facts are given throughout in a very short and concise manner. Beginning, on fol. 1b: حضرت آدم علیه السلام جمعه کونی روح شریفی داخل اولدوغندن اوتورى الخ.

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. § (253) 2291.
2.
Title: Vāḳıʿanāme-i Veysī
Incipit: نسیم چمن آرای حمد و ثنا اول پادشاه جهان آفرین حضرتلرینگ طراوت بخش الخ
Author: Vaysī, Uvays ibn Muḥammad
Veysī Efendi ویسی افندی
Üveys bin Muḥammed اویس بن محمد

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Vāḳıʿanāme-i Veysī or 'Veysī's Vision', a survey of the great historical revolutions of the world, in the form of a dream, addressed by Veysī Efendi, i. e. Üveys bin Muḥammed, ḳāḍī of Üsküp, with the taḫalluṣ Veysī (who was born A. H. 969=A. D. 1561/1562, and died A. H. 1037=A. D. 1627/1628), see on the author and his 'Vision,' G. Flügel ii. pp. 77 and 252; Rieu, p. 29; W. Pertsch, Nos. 3, II, and 140, and Berlin Cat., p. 58; Krafft, No. 250; J. Aumer, No. 68, fol. 61b; Hammer, Osman. Dichtkunst, iii. p. 203, and Geschichte des Osm. Reiches, v. p. 663, etc. It is also sometimes styled خواب‌نامه, and under this title it has been printed in Būlāk, A. H. 1252; another edition of the work is found in Veysī's collected works, published Constantinople, A.H. 1286. Beginning, on fol. 71b: نسیم چمن آرای حمد و ثنا اول پادشاه جهان آفرین حضرتلرینگ طراوت بخش الخ. The beginning of Rieu's copy appears here, but with slight modifications, on fol. 74b, 1. 5 ab infra.

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. § (253) 2291.
3.
Title: Tefekkürnāme-i Nihānī Efendi
Title: تفکرنامه نهانی افندی
Author: Nihânî, Nacak Fâzıl, -1519
Nacaḳ Fāżıl Nihānī نجق فاضل نهانی
Nihānī Efendi نهانی افندی

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تفکرنامه نهانی افندی, an incomplete collection of short tales and anecdotes, on fol. 95b. Whether Nihānī Efendi, the author, is identical with the poet Nihānī, quoted above in Ethe No. 2149, is impossible to say.

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. § (253) 2291.
4.
Title: Ḥıkāyet-i Bāyezīd-i Bisṭāmī
Title: حکایت بایزید بسطامی
Author: Abū Yazīd Bisṭāmī, Ṭayfūr ibn ʻĪsá, d. ca. 874
Author: Bāyazīd al-Bisṭāmī al-Thānī, ʻAlī ibn ʻInāyat Allāh, fl. 16th century

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حکایت بایزید بسطامی, a tale of Bāyezīd Bisṭāmī (who died A. H. 261=A. D. 875), on fol. 103b.

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. § (253) 2291.
5.
Title: Ḥikāyet-i Ḥātim-i Aṣṣam
Title: حكايت حاتم اصم
Author: Ḥātim Aṣṣam
Ḥātim-i Aṣṣam
حاتم اصم

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حكايت حاتم اصم, a tale of Hatim the deaf who died A. H. 237=A.D. 851/852, on fol. 110b.

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. § (253) 2291.
6.
Title: Ḥikāyet-i Mervān
Title: حکایت مروان

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حکایت مروان, a story of Marwān, on fol. 111a.

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. § (253) 2291.
7.
Title: Neṣā'iḥ-i Mülūk
Title: نصائح ملوك

Title: Neṣāyiḥ-i Mülūk
Title: نصایح ملوك

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نصائح ملوك, advices to kings, on fol. 111b.

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. § (253) 2291.
8.
Title: Risāle-i Müşkilāt
Title: Risāle-yi Müşkilāt
Title: Risālet-i Müşkilāt
Title: Risālet Müşkilāt
Title: Risālat Mushkilāt
Title: رسالة مشكلات

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رسالة مشكلات, a treatise on difficult questions on fol. 113a.

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. § (253) 2291.
9.
Title: Risālet ʿilmi l-ferāset Erisṭālīs
Title: Risālat ʿilmi l-farāsat Arisṭālīs
Title: رسالة علم الفراست ارسطالیس
Author and Attributed name: Aristotle
Erisṭālīs, Arisṭālīs, ارسطالیس
Aristotélēs Ἀριστοτέλης

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رسالة علم الفراست ارسطالیس a treatise on physiognomy, ascribed to Aristotle, on fol. 119b.

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. § (253) 2291.
10.
Title: Vaṣiyetnāme-i ḥażret-i ʿAlī Allāhu kerreme vechehu
Title: وصیت‌نامه حضرت علی الله کرم وجهه
Author and Attributed name: ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, ca. 600-661 علی بن ابی طالب

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وصیت‌نامه حضرت علی الله کرم وجهه, the last will of ʿAlī on fol. 123b. No date.

Language(s): Arabic

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. § (253) 2291.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 127 folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 20.32 × approximately 12.7 cm.

Layout

1 column of 17 lines per page

Hand(s)

(Hand 1) Script: Nesḫ

(Hand 2) Script: Dīvānī

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.

The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.

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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