Contains one larger yet incomplete work, one page of excerpts, and one separate leaf of notes. The main text is a Chaghatay copy of the fictional story of two lovers, همراه Hamrāh (sometimes known as همراه‌جان Hamrāh-jān) and حورلقا Ḥūr-liqā, a popular subject for literature and theatre in late 19th and early 20th c. Eastern Turkistan. Missing part of the story at the end. There is also a one-page excerpt in poor Arabic based on شیخ بهاٸي Shaykh Bahā'ī 's کتاب المخلاة Kitāb al-Mikhlāhon traditional medicine and alimentation. Contains many misspellings and misquotations; likely written from memory. . Also contains one loose leaf in Chaghatay on the same type of paper listing a number of spices, seeds, and vegetables for cooking and traditional medicine. — 19th or early 20th centuries; Kashgaria

Title

Contains one larger yet incomplete work, one page of excerpts, and one separate leaf of notes. The main text is a Chaghatay copy of the fictional story of two lovers, همراه Hamrāh (sometimes known as همراه‌جان Hamrāh-jān) and حورلقا Ḥūr-liqā, a popular subject for literature and theatre in late 19th and early 20th c. Eastern Turkistan. Missing part of the story at the end. There is also a one-page excerpt in poor Arabic based on شیخ بهاٸي Shaykh Bahā'ī 's کتاب المخلاة Kitāb al-Mikhlāhon traditional medicine and alimentation. Contains many misspellings and misquotations; likely written from memory. . Also contains one loose leaf in Chaghatay on the same type of paper listing a number of spices, seeds, and vegetables for cooking and traditional medicine. — 19th or early 20th centuries; Kashgaria

Shelfmark

MS. Ind. Inst. Turk. 18

Place of origin

Kashgaria

Date

19th or early 20th centuries

Language

Arabic

Chagatai

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Mulberry paper, possibly Khotanese in origin. Some leaves are pasted together from smaller bits to form folios of uniform size.

Physical extent

ff. 38

Hands

Script: Naskh in black ink with purple ink for some proper names and section headings. Scribe(s)unknown, but the scribes of the separate leaf and the excerpts from کتاب المخلاة Kitāb al-Mikhlāh on folio 36bmay be the same, given the similarity in both hand and subject matter.

Acquisition

Given to the Library by a certain "Gen. Younghusband" in December 1880, probably Major General John William Younghusband , brother-in-law to explorer Shaw, Robert, 1839-1879. (Explorer Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir, 1863-1942 , John William's son, was never a General, and in any case was too young to have donated this manuscript to the library, having only been born in 1863.)

Provenance

From the collection of Shaw, Robert, 1839-1879.

Subject

Medicine, Arab

Herbs

Romance fiction, Persian

Medicine, Persian

Nutrition

Romance fiction, Turkish