One copy of علي چلبی بن صالح ʿAlī Çelebi bin Ṣāliḥ 's همایون‌نامه Hümāyūnnāme, a retelling of the story of کلیله و دمنه Kalīlah wa Dimnahbased loosely on the Persian paraphrase known as انوار سهیلی Anvār-i Suhaylīby حسین واعظ کاشفی Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī . — Multiple dates; Exact place of origin unknown, but perhaps Bursa, given the nisba of the scribe

Title

One copy of علي چلبی بن صالح ʿAlī Çelebi bin Ṣāliḥ 's همایون‌نامه Hümāyūnnāme, a retelling of the story of کلیله و دمنه Kalīlah wa Dimnahbased loosely on the Persian paraphrase known as انوار سهیلی Anvār-i Suhaylīby حسین واعظ کاشفی Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī . — Multiple dates; Exact place of origin unknown, but perhaps Bursa, given the nisba of the scribe

Shelfmark

MS. Sale 46

Place of origin

Exact place of origin unknown, but perhaps Bursa, given the nisba of the scribe

Date

9 May 1564

Language

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

Contents

Form

codex

Physical extent

249 folios

Hands

Script: Small but clear nesta‘līḳ. Scribe: بروسه‌لی محمد بن ابراهیم بن الیاس Brusalı Muḥammed bin İbrāhīm bin Ilyās .

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece.

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1872.

Provenance

The collections of George Sale, d. 1736.

Acquired by Thomas Hunt in 1760.

The Radcliffe Library.

Subject

Fables, Indic

Fables, Persian

Fables, Arabic