Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader Turkish MS 135
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Reference Number:
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Turkish MS 135
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Parent Work Title:
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A mid 18th-century Collection of Fables
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Date Created:
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18th century [middle]
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Description:
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Collection of Fables, eighteenth century Turkish manuscript bound in boards covered in multicoloured marbled paper and with a leather backing. Written on paper, 17lines; catchwords; Naskh; red borders; gold borders on lb-2a; a simple gold headpiece on f. lb; rubrics in red; completed on 25 Rabī’ al-Ākhir 1174 (4 December 1761). The collection bears no title or the name of an author. Consists of 149 brief moralistic tales in which animals are the protagonists and each of which ends in an explanation of their meaning. Animal and human figures and others play a role in these stories; marginal corrections; marginal numbers in red from the 30th fable onwards.
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Language Code:
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tur
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Language:
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Turkish
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Subject:
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Turkish literature
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Item Height:
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198 mm
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Item Width:
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135 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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Schmidt, Jan. A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library at Manchester. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2018-11-28
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2018-12
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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