MS. Douce Or. C. 1 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Eleven pictures of costumes

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: Eleven pictures of costumes

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Eleven pictures of costumes, chiefly Turkish, representing, among others, a cook belonging to the footsoldiers, a chief falconer, a chief huntsman, a chief shepherd, an Arab of the desert, a toyseller, a courtesan, a bride, a man put in the pillory for selling with light weights, etc.

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. § (249) 2287.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: folios
Dimensions (leaf): approximately 312.42 × approximately 25.4 cm.

Layout

1 column of varying number of lines per page

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Francis Douce, d. 1834.

The Douce bequest came to the Bodleian Library in 1834.

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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