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Or 8765

Record Id:

032-003878898

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003878898

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 8765

Title:

Mejmaïlgharaib

Additional Titles:

Le Livre des Merveilles

Mecmua'u'l-garaip

Scope & Content:

This volume contains Mejmaïlgharaib ou Le Livre des Merveilles traduit par Pierre fornetti jeune de Langue à Constantinople, 1739. On f 2v, this anonymous collection of anecdotes is described in "Avis du traducteur au lecteur" as "Ce livre n'est rien moins que ce que son titre vous annonce. C'est un ramas d'historiettes extravagantes inventées chez les Barbiers turcs; car je n'ai rien vu de plus visionaire que ces sortes de gens là". ["This book is nothing more than what its title tells you. It is a collection of short extravagant stories invented by Turkish barbers; because I have seen nothing more visionary than these types of people".]

The French translation of the stories ends on f 102v and is followed by the original Ottoman Turkish text (ff 1v-45r from the right-hand side of the volume).

The text contains a single unvan.

This manuscript is undated but probably belongs to the same period as the French version. The last folio has been added in another hand.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003878898

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003878898

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

2 texts, 147 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic
Latin

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

18th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Paper

Foliation : European, 147 ff (45 ff in Ottoman Turkish beginning on the right; 102 ff in French on the left)

Dimensions : 212 mm x 153 mm

Script : Latin, Nesih

Binding : 19th-century binding with flap, marked 'Curzon Parham. 1847. Jan. 8'

Source of Acquisition:

Bequeathed by Darea, Baroness Zouche on 13 October 1917.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Curzon, Darea, Baroness Zouche of Harringworth, 1860-1917

Subjects:

Barbers

Places:

Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe