Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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

Oriental Manuscripts

Douce Collection

Contents

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

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

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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