This volume contains a short treatise on religious precepts compiled in 804 AH (1401-02 CE) by Abdurrahman İbn-i Mehmet el-Aydini el-Basrevi for İsa Bey İbn-i İshak Bey, probably one of the Aydınoğlu Dynasty. It was copied by Mehmet İbn-i Musa in 1100 AH (1688-89 CE). This is followed (ff 52v-65r) by an Ottoman Turkish verse translation, without the name of the translator provided, of the Qaṣīdat al-burdah (قصيدة البردة) of Muḥammad ibn Saᶜīd al-Būsīrī, copied at approximately the same time as the first text. The Arabic original of the Qaṣīdat is included in red.
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or 12823
- Dates of Creation
- Late 17th century
- Language of Material
- Arabic Turkish
- Physical Description
- 2 texts 65 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 65 ff. Dimensions : 166 mm x 120 mm. Script : Nesih, fully vocalized (text I); nestalik, fully vocalized (Ottoman Turkish component, text II), nesih (Arabic component, text II). Ink : Primarily in black ink, with red ink for the Arabic original of text II.
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Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in January 1963.