An anonymous prose translation into Ottoman Turkish of نصر الله منشی Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Persian translation of کلیله و دمنه Kalīlah wa Dimnah, itself based on the Arabic translation (from either a Pahlavi or Sanskrit version) of ابن المقفع Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ . — Multiple dates
MS. Marsh 61
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
An anonymous prose translation into Ottoman Turkish of نصر الله منشی Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Persian translation of کلیله و دمنه Kalīlah wa Dimnah, itself based on the Arabic translation (from either a Pahlavi or Sanskrit version) of ابن المقفع Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ . — Multiple dates
Shelfmark
MS. Marsh 61
Date
October 1587
Language
Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
Contents
Form
codex
Physical extent
ff. 122
Hands
Script: Naskh in black ink. Scribe(s) unknown.
Acquisition
The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.
Provenance
The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713 .
Subject
Fables, Arabic
Fables, Indic
Fables, Persian
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