Summary View

Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Turcs

Shelfmark

Supplément turc 324

Contents

Nas̲r al-laʼālī (Anonymous)

Author

Anonymous

Show other names

Anonymous (authorised)

Title

Nas̲r al-laʼālī

نثر اللآلی

Notes

A compedium of a hundred sentences and moral apothegms attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, approximately 600-661 with a paraphrase in Turish and Persian muqaṭṭa‘at.

In the folio 1r there is a table of a Arabic grammar book entitle al-urjūzah (الارجوزة) and in 33v there is the first page of a treatise entitled al-Durrah al-alfiyah (الدرٌة الالفیٌة) by Yaḥyā ibn Muʻizz al-Ma‘iṭ al-Maghribī, يحيى بن معز المعط المغربي

Main language of text

Ottoman Turkish

Bibliography

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits turcs. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-33, Supplement Turc 324.

Physical Description

Number of folios

33 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 12.5cm, height 17cm

Hand

Copyist: Jamāl al-Dīn Samarqandī, official of the treasury, fl. 1496, جمال الدین سمرقندی

History

Place

al-Ruhā (Turkey)

Date of copy

15th. century