Publication Date
Between 30 September 1520 and 6 September 1566 CE
Publication Place
Turkey, Istanbul -
Subject
Turkish Manuscripts
Type
Book
Language
Ottoman
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
1225.6 × 29.9 cm.
Library
University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries
Record ID
de5f9a11-5f57-42c4-a498-ed89be159ea7
Library Location
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford - Bodleian Library MS. Marsh 196
Date
Between 30 September 1520 and 6 September 1566 CE
Notes
An Ottoman Turkish scroll displaying the genealogies of major dynasties of the Islamic world before and after Islam, starting with the Biblical kings and prophets and the Old Persian kings and ending with the Ottoman Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān.
Katalog Açıklaması
<a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_23108">Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World</a>
Katalog Tanımlayıcısı
Ethé 2045
Önceki Sahibi
Marsh, Narcissus, 1638-1713
El Yazısı
Clear and careful naskh.
Düzen
Blocks of text interspersed with genealogical charts and vignettes.
Menşe Notu
Probably completed during the reign of Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān, i.e. between 30 September 1520 and 6 September 1566 CE; likely İstanbul.
Köken
The Library of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, d. 1713. The Marsh bequest entered the Bodleian Library in 1714.
Kayıt Menşei
Manuscript description based on the observation of the manuscript by Nicholas Kontovas in consultation with Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
