Hümayun-name - همايون نامه

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7233
  • Dates of Creation
    • 984
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 202 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 202 ff. Dimensions : 272 mm x 170 mm. Script : Nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish version of the fables of Bīdpāᵓī made from the Anvār-i Suhaylī by Ali Çelebi (died 950 AH/1543-44) who dedicated it to Süleyman I. On the last folio of the work is a short and incomplete Persian-Arabic-Ottoman Turkish glossary. The manuscript was copied at İstanbul in 984 AH (1576-77 CE).

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Related Material

Other copies of this work can be found at Or 1138, Or 5608, Or 7232, Or 9717, Sloane MS 3586, Harley MS 3280, Add MS 7842, and Add MS 15153. An extract from the work can be found at Sloane MS 3248. More information on the text and the author can be found at Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 227-28; and Rossi, p. 247.

Bibliography

The Hümayun-name has been printed in Bulaq in 1251 AH. An abridged version entitled Simaru'l-Esmar, was published by Osmanzade Tayyip in Istanbul in 1256 AH. Another abridgement by the same author but entitled Zübdetü'l-nesaih, is mentioned by Aumer in the Munich Catalogue, No. 198-99. Partial French translations by Galland and Cardonne have been published under the title Contes et Fables Indiennes in Paris in 1724 and 1778 CE, and in the Panthéon Littéraire, Contes orientaux, pp. 329-549. Extracts, translated by A. Royer, will be found in the Journal Asiatique, 4e série, vol. xii, pp. 381-416, and vol. xiii, pp. 415-453. See also Diez, 'Ueber Inhalt und Vortrag des Königlichen Buches,' Berlin, 1811, and S. de Sacy, Calila et Dimna, p. 51.