Hamayil - حمائيل

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 13054
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1828
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Slavic languages Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • Codex 240 ff Materials : Paper. Dimensions : 173 mm x 102 mm. Foliation : European, 240 ff. Ruling : No text boxes, texts occasionally written inside circles. Script : Nesih. Ink : Black ink with catchwords, titles, and occasional special passages in reddish-orange. Binding : British Museum binding.

Scope and Content

A miscellany of prayers and religious tracts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and a Slavic dialect used by the Lithuanian Tatars, written in Arabic script. This manuscript was copied in 1828 by Mustafa Bahdanovich in Tatar Street in the city of Slonim (Belarus).

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in January 1967.

Related Material

For more information on the manuscript's genre and context, see Meredith-Owens, G. M. and Nadson, Alexander, 'The Byelorussian Tartars and their Writings,' The Journal of Byelorussian Studies, 2:2 (1970), pp. 140-176. https://brill.com/view/journals/bela/2/2/article-p140_1.xml?language=en&ebody=pdf-46507; and Lewicka, Magdalena, 'The Literature of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - characteristics of the Tatar writings and areas of research,' Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 4:1 (2016), pp. 1-16. https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.1515/jolace-2016-0001