Poetry, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
A scrapbook of Turkish poetry, interspersed with a few prose pieces, merely a rough compilation, several pages of which are only filled with one or two lines. A great number of poems are by Nasîmî...
Dates
- Creation: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Extent
47 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Turkish
Shelfmark
MS. Laud. Or. 175
Arrangement
Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘A 28’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 327
For a full description in English, see:Beeston, A. F. L, H. Ethé and E. Sachau, Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (3 vols., Oxford, 1889-1953), no. 2156
Custodial History
Presented to the library by Archbishop Laud, 1635. Manuscript 1682 acquired by the Bodleian Library
Dimensions
6in. by 3 3/4 in.
Repository Details
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