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A collection of anonymous poetic legends about the life of the Prophet , ‘Alī, Fāṭimah and the martyrdom of Ḥusaynin Old Anatolian Turkish or Archaic Ottoman. — Multiple dates

MS. Huntongton 507

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

A collection of anonymous poetic legends about the life of the Prophet , ‘Alī, Fāṭimah and the martyrdom of Ḥusaynin Old Anatolian Turkish or Archaic Ottoman. — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Huntongton 507

Date

25 March 1583

Language

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

Contents

1. folios 1b-30b Author: anonymous Title: poem on the life of the Prophet Muḥammad in Old Anatolian Turkish
2. folios 31a-206a Author: anonymous Title: Kitāb-ı maḳtel-i Ḥüseyn Title: کتاب مقتل حسین
3. folio 207a Author: anonymous Title: eleven Old Anatolian Turkish bayts on the subject of Fāṭimah
4. folio 208a-233a Author: anonymous Title: Old Anatolian Turkish mes̠nevī on the lives of the Prophet Muḥammad and ‘Alī
5. folio 234b-236a Author: anonymous Title: very short Old Anatolian Turkish mes̠nevī in praise of Muḥammad
6. folio 236b-275a Author: anonymous Title: short Old Anatolian Turkish mes̠nevī in praise of Muḥammad
7. folio 275b-279a Author: anonymous Title: short prose tract in Old Anatolian Turkish on the Prophet Muḥammad
8. folio 279b-320b Author: anonymous Title: Mi‘rāc-ı Muḥammed Muṣṭafā Title: معراج محمد مصطفی
9. folio 320b-321a Author: anonymous Title: several short prose pieces in Archaic Ottoman Turkish
10. folio 320b-321a Author: anonymous Title: Vaṣiyyetname-yi Mevlānā Muḥammed bin Ferāmürz eş-şehīr bi-Mevlānā Ḫusrev raḥmet Allāhu ‘aleyh Title: وصیّت‌نامهٔ مولانا محمّد بن فرامرز الشهر بمولانا حسرو رحمة الله علیه
11. folio 320b-321a Author: anonymous Title: short prayers in Archaic Ottoman Turkish

Form

codex

Physical extent

312 folios

Hands

Script: Nesḫ in black ink. Written in multiple hands. Scribes unknown.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Provenance

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Subject

Karbalāʾ, Battle of, Karbalāʾ, Iraq, 680

Martyrdom--Islam

Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, -680--Death and burial

Shiite poetry, Turkish

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  • Yūsuf-ı Meddāḥ
  • anonymous
  • Lūṭ oġlı Yaḥyā
  • Ḳasṭamonılı Şāẕī
  • Fāṭimah
  • Şādī Meddāḥ
  • Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī
  • ‘Āşıḳī
  • Huntington, Robert, d. 1701

  • ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib,‏ Caliph,‏ ca. 600-661

  • Muḥammad, Prophet, d. 632

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