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Or 7001
- Record Id:
- 032-003652967
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003652967
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102481607.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 7001
- Title:
- [French-Ottoman Turkish Codex]
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains the following five documents, possibly collected by a French dragoman in the 18th century CE:
ff 1r-27v : Fragmens de grammaire turc;
ff 28r-121v : Phrases turcs et français;
ff 122r-136v : Poésies de Chahidi, the well-known Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE). This copy is imperfect at the beginning and was copied in 1150 AH (1737-38 CE);
ff 155r-205r : Contes en turc. Fragments d'anecdotes, oral literature commencing with the story of Leyla and Mecnun (ff 155r-186v) and followed by an incomplete recension of the Tale of HasanŞah (ff 187r-204v) in Divani script;
ff 205r-213r : Fables turcs.
The texts are all copied in different hands, the majority using Nastaliq.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003652967", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 7001: [French-Ottoman Turkish Codex]" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003652967
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003652967
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 213 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Persian
Turkish, Ottoman - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials : Paper
Foliation : Western, 213 ff
Script : Nastaliq, Divani, Latin
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe
- Related Material:
-
Another French translation of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi can be found at Or 7003.
Ottoman Turkish versions of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi can be found at Harley MS 500 text 1, Harley MS 5454, Harley MS 5458, Harley MS 5487, Harley MS 5494, Or 3216, Or 7328, Add MS 7004, Add MS 10007, and Sloane MS 3583.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 10007
Add MS 7004
Harley MS 500
Harley MS 5454
Harley MS 5458
Harley MS 5487
Harley MS 5494
Or 3216
Or 7003
Or 7328
Sloane MS 3583