MS. Thurston 26 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
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Vaṣiyetnāme-yi Birgeli
Language(s): Ottoman Turkish
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The well-known exposition of the Muslim faith, both in its theoretical and practical aspects, according to the Sunnite creed, a kind of Muslim catechism, by Taḳīüddīn Muḥammed bin Pīr ʿAlī Birgeli or Bergevī (a native of Berga or Pergamum), who was born A.H. 929= A.D. 1523, and died A. H. 980 or 981=A.D. 1573, 1574. It was completed A.H. 970=A.D. 1562, 1563, comp. H. Khalfa iii. p. 373, No. 1615; G. Flügel iii. p. 127; Rieu, p. 6; W. Pertsch, p. 52, and Berlin Cat., pp. 37 and 125; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, pp. 168 and 461; J. Aumer, pp. 4 and 5; Fleischer, Dresden Cat., No. 59, and Cat. Lips., No. 6; Krafft, p. 163; Zenker, No. 1463 sq.; and Journal Asiatique, 1843, ii. pp. 32 and 55, and 1859, i. p. 524 (in the last two publications all the printed editions and translations are enumerated). Chief Eastern editions since A.H. 1218 in Scutari, Constantinople, and Būlāk; a metrical Tartar translation appeared in Kasan, 1802. Some select portions have also been printed in Dieterici's Chrestomathie Ottomane, Berlin, 1854, pp. 38-43. French translation by Garcin de Tassy in his 'Exposition de la foi musulmane,' Paris, 1822, and in his 'L'islamisme d'après le Coran,' Paris, 1874. Beginning: الحمد لله الذي هدانا للاسلام و جعلنا من امة محمد عليه الصلوة والسلام الخ. Dated A. H. 1088=A. D. 1677/1678, by Velī bin ʿAbdülkerīm.
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Consisting of three short pieces, the first beginning, on fol. 1b: هر مكلّف یعنی عاقل و بالغ اولنه اولا لازم و واجب اولدر که الخ; the second, on fol. 4b: غازی خضوع و خشوع اوزرینه ادا ايلمك ادا ايلمك اولدر که اذان اوقندوغى وقتن الخ; the third, on fol. 7a: الحمد لله .... بوندنصكره معلوم اولا که هر عاقل و بالغ اولان کشیه الخ. Dated beginning of Ẕī l-ḥicce, A. H. 1088=A. D. 1678, end of January.
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A tract on the rites and observances in Islām. It begins: اسلام بودر اسلامک شرط بشدر الخ. It ends on fol. 78a and is followed, on ff. 78b-82b, by some pieces in verse and prose on the same topics, and تفسیر فاتحه شريف, a Turkish commentary on the first sūra of the Qur'ān, on fol. 79a.
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1 column of 13 lines per page
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Script: Nesḫ
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Provenance unknown but not given by Thurston [see Summary Catalogue, 2.ii, 798-801].
Presented to the Bodleian Library in 1661 by William Thurston, a merchant of London, in 1661.
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