Tercume-yi Kâbusname - ترجمۀ قابوسنامه

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7501
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1139
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 149 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 149 ff. Dimensions : 212 mm x 145 mm. Script : Nesih, vocalized.

Scope and Content

This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known Persian book on morals Kaykāʾūs Ibn Iskandar Ibn Qābūs. The work was translated by Nazmizade Hüseyin Murtaza for Hasan Paşa, governor of Baghdad, in 1117 AH (1705-06 CE). The first folio of this recension is missing. The manuscript was copied in 1139 AH (1726-27 CE).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased in 1910.

Related Material

Another copy of the same translation can be found at Add MS 7841. Other translations of the same source text can be found at Or 3219, Or 4130, and Or 7320. For more information on the translator, see OM III, pp. 152-54, where the date of his death is given as 1134 AH (1721-22 CE). For more information on the text, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 116-17.