Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Or 13020

Record Id:

032-003420750

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003420750

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100063326657.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 13020

Title:

[Miscellany of religious works]

Scope & Content:

A miscellany of religious works written in a Slavonic language in the Arabic script containing elements of both the south and west Slavonic languages. It begins with a series of anecdotes taken from the Qisas al-anbiya (Kısasu'l-enbiya), interspersed with commentaries on some of the shorter Surat of the Qur’an, commencing with Surah XXXVI. It is difficult to determine whether these are all parts of one work. The heading bab does appears to confirm this, although the abwab are not numbered. From f 86v to f 102v there is the complete text of a Turkish poem on the Mi’raj of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم entitled Dastan-i Miraç with an interlinear translation into the Slavonic language.

The author’s name, Hajji Mahmud, is found in the penultimate line but is glossed as Hajji Muhammad, probably in error, in the translation. After this poem come further religious discourses, including (ff 120r-v) the Prophet Muhammad's صلعم physiognomy (hilyet). Imperfect at the beginning and end and damaged by damp.

This manuscript was probably copied in the late 18th or early 19th century CE in western Belarus.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

[{ "id" : "032-003420750", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 13020: [Miscellany of religious works]" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003420750

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003420750

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, ff. 125

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Slavic languages
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1775

End Date:

1825

Date Range:

18th century-19th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

Place of Origin:

Belarus (?)

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Paper

Dimensions : 320 x 200 mm

Foliation : European, 125 ff

Pricking and Ruling: Black ink with occasional catchwords in red.

Script : Nesih

Binding : Western European

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in June 1966.

Information About Copies:

There is a copy of the poem Dastan-i Miraç in the Vatican Library (Vat. Turco 17/3. See Rossi, p. 12, where it is entitled Mirac ül-nebi, but no author’s name is given).

Publications:

Akiner, Shirin, Religious Language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab. A Cultural Monument of Islam in Europe (With a Latin-Script Transliteration of the British Library Tatar Belarusian Kitab [OR 13020] on CD-ROM), Mediterranean Language and Culture Monograph Series 11 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Muhammad, the Prophet,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121032851,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97245226

Places:

Belarus, Europe

Related Material:

For more information on the manuscript and its context, see Akiner, Shirin, 'Oriental Borrowings in the Language of the Byelorussian Tatars,' SEER, 56:2 (April 1978), pp. 224-241