[Cevahir el-asdaf] - [جواهر الاصداف].

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 11270
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 279 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 279 ff. Dimensions : 212 mm x 154 mm. Script : Nesih, fully vocalized. Ink : Black ink for Ottoman Turkish text, red ink for Arabic text. Binding : Contemporary binding with inlaid medallion.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a short commentary on the Qur'an made by order of Ebü'l-Fatih İsfandiyar of the Candaroğulları Dynasty for his son İbrahim. It is probably the second volume of the set, beginning with Surah IX (al-Tawbah) and ending with Surah XXIX (Al-ᶜankabūt). The text of the tefsir is in Old Anatolian Turkish. This manuscript was likely copied in the 16th century CE.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum in 1931.

Related Material

Copies of other parts of the original text might be found at Or 1143 and Or 12991. 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).