[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 9472
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1193
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 5 texts 191 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 191 ff. Dimensions : 254 mm x 150 mm. Script : Nestalik. Binding : Contemporary binding.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following five texts by Mehmet Rağıp Paşa (died 1176 AH/1762-63 CE) :. (I) ff 1v-80v : Telhisat, letters and official reports centred around the Peace of Belgrade in 1739;. (II) ff 81v-139r : Fethiye-yi Belgrad, a report on the capture of Belgrade in 1739. This text ends with a mesnevi (f 101r) and is followed by a number of official documents (kaimeler) and a number of takriz in Arabic by Rağıp, of which the final item occurs on f 139r;. (III) ff 140v-150v : Kasideler and tahmisat, some dealing with historical events, and some of which are in Persian;. (IV) ff 151v-190r : Gazeller;. (V) ff 190v-191r : Rubaiyat and matali'. The texts contain four unvans. The mecmua was copied by Mehmet Siyahi in 1193 AH (1779-80 CE).

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1924.

Related Material

For other collections of historical, administrative and poetical texts by Mehmet Rağıp Paşa, see Or 6248, Or 7182, Or 7198 text 1, Or 8008, Or 10952, Or 12185, and Or 14242. For more information on the author, see OM II, p. 190; GO, pp. 288-89; and Gibb IV, p. 92.

Bibliography

Several of the prose and poetical works contained within this volume penned by Rağıp were published at Bulak in 1252 AH (1837 CE).