MS. Marsh 43 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Marsh Collection
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A collection of historical miscellanies stories and tracts.
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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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.
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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.
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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.
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حکایت بایزید بسطامی, a tale of Bāyezīd Bisṭāmī (who died A. H. 261=A. D. 875), on fol. 103b.
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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.
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حکایت مروان, a story of Marwān, on fol. 111a.
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نصائح ملوك, advices to kings, on fol. 111b.
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رسالة مشكلات, a treatise on difficult questions on fol. 113a.
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رسالة علم الفراست ارسطالیس a treatise on physiognomy, ascribed to Aristotle, on fol. 119b.
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وصیت‌نامه حضرت علی الله کرم وجهه, the last will of ʿAlī on fol. 123b. No date.
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Physical Description
Layout
1 column of 17 lines per page
Hand(s)
(Hand 1) Script: Nesḫ
(Hand 2) Script: Dīvānī
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713.
The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.
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