Câmâsb-nâme
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Summary View
- Country
- United Kingdom
- City
- London
- Institution
- British Library
- Repository
- St. Pancras
- Collection
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Shelfmark
- Add. 24962
Contents
- Câmâsb-nâme (Mūsa ‘Abdī, fl. early 15th century)
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- Author
- Mūsa ‘Abdī, fl. early 15th century
- موسی عبدی
- Show other names
- Mûsâ Abdî
- Mūsa ‘Abdī , fl. early 15th century (authorised)
- موسی عبدی (variant)
- Mûsâ Abdî, fl. early 15th century (variant)
- Biographical notes
- The biographers of Turkish poets do not mention any ‘Abdī at that early period
- Title
- Câmâsb-nâme
- کتاب جماسبنامه
- Notes
- An epic poem written in old and comparatively pure Turkish about the hero Jamasp, son of the Prophet Daniel
- The work has a panegyric on the reigning Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451, at the close of which the author says that he wrote this translation for that sovereign, and entitled it Camaspname; but he gives no clue to the original from which it was derived
- Main language of text
- Ottoman Turkish
- Bibliography
- Catalogue
- Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 167-168.
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 180 ff
- Dimensions of folio
- width 17.8cm, height 26.7cm
- Columns
- 2
- Ruled lines
- 15
- Decoration
- The manusript contains ten coloured drawings of a rather rude style of execution, and much defaced. They occur on
- Foliation
- f. 11 ,
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- f. 20 ,
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- f. 74 ,
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- f. 84 ,
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- f. 96 ,
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- f. 103 ,
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- f. 108 ,
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- f. 135 ,
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- f. 152 and
- Foliation
- f. 158
- Hand
- Copyist: Muṣṭafá Ibn Nūr ‘Alī, fl. 16th centuryمصطفی ابن نور علی
History
- Date of copy
- 16th. century