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Record Id:

032-003573853

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Add MS 7886

Title:

Abushqa - ابشقه

Additional Titles:

Al-luğat al-neva'iye ve al-istişhadat al-çağata'iye

Scope & Content:

A dictionary of Turkic words compiled especially from the works of Alisher Navoiy, with copious explanations, all explained in Ottoman Turkish. This work is commonly known as the Abushqa from the first word explained within it.

The author, who is unknown, was apparently an Ottoman-speaker who began the list about fifty years after the death of Alisher Navoiy (906 AH/1501 AH) and completed it, according to the manuscript Vienna MS No. 91, on the third day of Safer 959 AH (30 January 1552 CE).

A prologue in Chagatai in Mesnevi verse is prefixed to the vocabulary. It contains an elegy to Navoiy's writings. There is also a list of 28 different works by Navoiy that the author of the current work consulted for the compilation of the vocabulary, which is found under the entry for agha on f 14r.

The manuscript, which was likely completed in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century, is written in Nastaliq with red-ruled margins. A separate addendum (ff 267-273) is in a later hand and is dated 1234 AH (1818 CE).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 text, 273 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Chagatai
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic (nastaliq Variant)

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1818

Date Range:

18th century-Early 19th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Paper

Foliation : Western, 273 ff

Dimensions : 190 mm x 120 mm

Ruling : Red-ruled margins

Script : Nastaliq

Publications:

The Abushqa was first published with a Hungarian translation, but without the poetical quotations, by Armin Vambery in Budapest in 1862. A complete edition of the text has since been given by M. Veliaminov-Zernov, with a preface containing an exhaustive account of the work and its sources, in St. Petersburg in 1869.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Navoii, Alisher, 1441-1501,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010878029X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22198747

Subjects:

Vocabularies

Places:

Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe

Related Material:

Copies of the same text are found in Vienna MS No 91; Munich MS No. 221; and St. Petersburg MS No. 594.

Related Archive Descriptions:

Or 7178