Mahmudiye - محموديه

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7957
  • Dates of Creation
    • 997
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 39 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 39 ff. Dimensions : 204 mm x 135 mm. Script : Nesih, fully vocalized.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary compiled by a certain Mahmud in 967 AH (1559-60 CE) according to a chronogram on f 39r. It is to all intents and purposes an elaborated version of the earlier Luğat-i Firişteoğlu (f 2r). The vocabulary is divided into 34 kıt'alar, each in a separate metre. Folio 38 has mistakenly been bound after f 31. The manuscript was copied in 997 AH (1588-89 CE).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1914.

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