MS. Thurston 21 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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İnşā'-i Oḳçızāde

Language(s): Ottoman Turkish

Title: İnşā'-ı Oḳçızāde
Title: انشاء اقچی زاده
Incipit: دولتلو و سعادتلو و مرحمتلو سلطانم حضرتلرینگ الخ
Author: Oḳçızāde Meḥmed Şāhī اوقچی زاده محمد شاهی
Muḥammed bin Muḥammed Oḳçızāde محمد بن محمد اوقچی زاده
Şāhī شاهی

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A small collection of specimens and models for letterwriting, both official and familiar, by Muḥammed bin Muḥammed Oḳçızāde, with the taḫalluṣ of Şāhī, who died AH 1039 AD 1629/1630. Beginning: دولتلو و سعادتلو و مرحمتلو سلطانم حضرتلرینگ الخ. Larger collections of letters by the same Oḳçızāde are described in Rieu, p. 97; W. Pertsch, p. 208, and Berlin Cat., pp. 58 and 59; G. Flügel i. p. 285; Krafft, p. 29, No. 88; Cat. des MSS. et Xylographes, pp. 530 and 540; Hammer, Geschichte des Osman. Reiches, ix. p. 248, No. 166, etc. Copied in Ẕī l-ḳaʿde, AH 1052=AD 1643, Jan./Feb., by Muḥammed bin ʿAbdüllāh.

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. § (141) 2179.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 17 folios
Dimensions (leaf):

Layout

1 column of 11 lines per page

Hand(s)

Script: dīvānī

History

Origin: Place of origin unknown. Ẕī l-ḳaʿde 1052 AH; January/February 1643. CE

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.

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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