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One copy of Hamdullah Hamdi, 1449-1508 's Yūsuf ü Züleyḫā in Ottoman Turkish. — Multiple dates

MS. Bodl. Or. 515-518

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

Description

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Title

One copy of Hamdullah Hamdi, 1449-1508 's Yūsuf ü Züleyḫā in Ottoman Turkish. — Multiple dates

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. Or. 515-518

Date

1575/1576

Language

Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)

Contents

Author: Hamdullah Hamdi, 1449-1508 Ḥamdüllāh Ḥamdī حمد الله حمدی Title: Yūsuf ü Züleyḫā Title: یوسف و زلیخای حمدی Title: Yūsuf ü Züleyḫā-yı Ḥamdī Title: Historia Josephi et Zelichae, Turcicé

Form

codex

Physical extent

2 volumes, i flyleaf + 105 folios & i flyleaf + 84 (numbered 106-190) folios

Hands

Nasta‘līḳ in black ink with red and blue inks for headings.

Decoration

Text borders in red ink throughout.

Acquisition

Bought from the executors of the estate of Edward Bernard, 1638 1696 in 1698.

Provenance

The following inscription in Arabic on folio 1aof volume 1 suggests that this item entered the ownership of one al-Faqīr Ḥāj Aḥmad al-Jalabī (el-Faḳīr Ḥāc Aḥmed el-Çelebī ) on 1 Ramażan 1027 AH (1 Ramażan 1027 AH): هثا کتاب یوسف زلیخا صاحبه الفقیر حاج احمد الجلبی في ۱ شهر رمضان سنه ۱۰۲۷ .

The seal and a note on flyleaf ib suggest that a previous owner may have been named Khalīl ibn ‘Umar( Ḫalīl bin ‘Ömer).

Per an inscription on flyleaf i , formerly owned by E. Bernard, i.e. Edward Bernard, 1638 1696.

Subject

Sufi poetry, Persian

Joseph (Son of Jacob)--In the Koran

Love poetry, Persian

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  • Ḥamdüllāh Ḥamdī
  • el-Faḳīr Ḥāc Aḥmed el-Çelebī
  • Bernard, Edward, 1638-1697

  • Jāmī, 1414-1492

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