[Şerh-i Kaside-yi Bürde] - [شرح قصیدۀ برده]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 13200
  • Dates of Creation
    • 19th century
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 46 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 46 ff. Dimensions : 209 mm x 135 mm. Ruling : Red-ruled text frames. Script : Nesih, fully vocalized, with the Arabic text larger than the other languages.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a commentary on the Qaṣīdat al-burdah (قصيدة البردة) of al-Būṣīrī (died 694 AH/1294-95 CE) by Seyit Ahmet İbn-i Mustafa called Lali (died 971 AH/1563-64 CE). He gives a translation of each verse into both Ottoman Turkish and Persian together with an Ottoman Turkish interlinear version. This manuscript was likely copied in the middle of the 19th century CE.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in October 1969.

Related Material

Other copies of this work can be found at Or 12120 and Or 17007. For more information on the Arabic original poem, see Brockelmann G.1, p. 264, and S.1, p. 467. For more information on the translator, see OM II, p. 51.