Cevahir el-asdaf - جواهر الاصداف

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12991
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 320 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 320 ff. Dimensions : 249 mm x 162 mm. Script : Nesih, fully vocalized. Binding : Later binding than the text.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a short commentary on the Qur'an made by order of Ebü'l-Fath İskender of the Candaroğulları Dynasty for his son İbrahim. The first folio of the text has been repaired. This manuscript was likely copied in the 16th century CE.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from J. Thornton and Son Ltd., Oxford, on 28 February 1966.

Related Material

Other copies of this work can be found at Or 1143 and Or 11270. For more information on the work, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 3-4.

Bibliography

Part of the text of this work has been published in Zajączkowski, Ananiasz, Studja nad je̜zykiem staroosmańskim = Études sur la langue vieille-osmanlie: 2; Wybrane rozdziały z anatolijskotureckiego przekładu Koranu (Krakow: Nakładem polskije akademii umieje̦tnosćiö 1937).