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Or 14253

Record Id:
032-003952729
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14253
Title:

Catalogus Codicum qui Turcice aut Jaghataice conscripti in Bibliotheca Richiana exstant 1849. Nos. 7830-7939.

Scope & Content:

This volume contains a descriptive catalogue in Latin of the Ottoman and Eastern Turki manuscripts collected by Claudius Rich (1787-1821) now found at British Library shelf marks Add MS 7830-7939.

The manuscripts are described in numerical order, one per folio. In most cases, the verso is blank. Add MS 7848 has a heading but no entry. There is no index.

The present catalogue was compiled by Josiah Forshall (1795-1863). Forshall joined the British Museum Department of Manuscripts in 1824. He served as Keeper of that Department from 1827, and also as Secretary to the Museum from 1828 to 1850, completing this catalogue towards the end of that period. He also produced several other catalogues.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 text, 118 ff
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Chagatai
Latin
Turkish, Ottoman
Scripts:
Arabic
Latin
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
19th century
Calendar:
Gregorian
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material : Lined laid white paper, three folios of which are azure; marbled end papers

Foliation : European, 123 ff, of which 5 are blank

Dimensions : 328 mm x 198 mm

Script : Good copper-plate hand

Watermarks : WHATMAN/TURKEY MILL/1846; the folio 1 and two of the blanks bear the watermark J COLES/1848

Binding : Morocco half-binding

Source of Acquisition:
Transferred to the British Library from the OMPB staff reference collections in March 1985.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Forshall, Josiah, Reverend Keeper of Manuscripts afterwards Sec British Museum
Rich, Claudius James, antiquarian, 1787-1821,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66558894
Places:
London, England
Related Material:

More information on the collections and on Cladius Rich can be found in Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum.

Information on Rich and his collections are provided in Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum III, pp. XI-XII.

A brief catalogue in Latin, drawn up by Rich himself, was published in Mines de l'Orient III, p. 329, and IV, pp. 111, 288, and 455.

For more information on Josiah Forshall, see DNB XX, p. 11.