Copies of letters
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Summary View
- Country
- United Kingdom
- City
- London
- Institution
- British Library
- Repository
- St. Pancras
- Collection
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Shelfmark
- Or. 61
Contents
- Copies of letters (Anonymous)
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- Author
- Anonymous
- Show other names
- Anonymous (authorised)
- Title
- Copies of letters
- Notes
- Written by Sultans Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481 and Bayezid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1447 or 8-1512 to contemporary princes, and vice versa, from 848 to 913 [1444-1508 CE] , without title or editor's name
- The letters form part of the collection of state-letters compiled by Feridun, bey, d. 1583, and presented by him to Murad III, Sultan of the Turks, 1546-1595 a month after his accession, A.H. 982
- Main language of text
- Ottoman Turkish and Persian
- Bibliography
- MS Studies
- von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph. Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches, grossentheils aus bisher unbenützten Handschriften und Archiven. Vom Carlowiczer Frieden bis zum Frieden von Kainardsche: 1699-1774. Hartleben: Pesth, 1836, 16.
- Catalogue
- Flügel, Gustav Leberecht. Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königliche Hofbibliothek, 1865, 282.
- Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 80-83.
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 1 ff (A single sheet)
- Dimensions of folio
- width 38.1cm, height 55.9cm
- Columns
- 2
- Ruled lines
- 62
- Decoration
- Red-ruled margins
History
- Date of copy
- 17th century