Various dates (966-1219 1558-1804). Addressed to various local rulers in Yarkand and Kashgar.Documents written in Yarkand, Kashgar and Samarqand. Some (all?) of the documents appear to be later copies of the original documents.MS Turk 70. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Twelve documents in Chagatai ; one in Persian.
Manuscript. Chagatai; some Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran; possibly between Tabriz and Shiraz. Paper; cream color laid paper; opening page (detached) has unwan in blue and gold; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; pages divided into two columns separating the text, each framed with a blue and gold border; black ink. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines. Library of Congress. Turkic manuscript, M33. Binding; binding is dark brown leather with originally gold, now bronze color embossed medallions; front cover and opening pages completely detached; inside covers also brown leather decorated with blue medallions; end papers have grafitti. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
One copy of a hagiography of the Khojas of Kashgaria by محمد صادق کاشغری Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāšġarī, most commonly known as تذکرهٔ عزیزان Taz̲kira-yi ʻazīzān, followed by a single half page (folio 124a) of miscellaneous notes in a later hand. Additionally, the recto of a loose leaf designated folio 10A by a modern foliator contains unidentified fragments in Chaghatay and Persian. Front and back paste-downs consist of 4 leaves of unidentified Chaghatay prose taken from an unknown source.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Anonymous, Excerpt from a Chaghatay prose work (Inside upper board, Inside lower board). Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāšġarī, Taz̲kira-yi ʻazīzān (fols. 1a-123b). Anonymous, Fragments in Chaghatay and Persian (fol. 10Aa-b). Anonymous, Notes in Chaghatay (fol. 124a-b).Contents note: Notes in Chaghatay and English on folio 1a.Dimensions: 35 × 23.3 cm (size of leaf).Hand: Nasta‘līq in black ink. Scribe(s) unknown, but has left some remarks on fol. 1a.Layout: Single column of 19 lines per page.Origin note: Place and date of origin unknown, but likely 19th c. AD Kashgar.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.
One incomplete copy of a hagiography of the Khojas of Kashgaria by محمد صادق کاشغری Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāšġarī, most commonly known as تذکرهٔ عزیزان Taz̲kira-yi ʻazīzān.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Written in Late Eastern Chaghatay, sometimes known as "Eastern Turki", showing some influence from the spoken language in its evolution to Modern Uyghur. Missing the beginning and end of the text.Contents note: Notes in Chaghatay and English on folio 1a.Dimensions: 28.1 × 17.1 cm (size of leaf).Hand: Nasta‘līq in black ink. Scribe(s) unknown.Layout: Single column of 19 lines per page.Origin note: Place and date of origin unknown, but likely 19th c. AD Kashgar.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.
One copy of a hagiography of the Khojas of Kashgaria by محمد صادق کاشغری Muḥammad Ṣādiq Kāšġarī, most commonly known as تذکرهٔ عزیزان Taz̲kira-yi ʻazīzān, followed by a single leaf (fol. 165a-b) of anonymous Chaghatay poetry. Fols. 163-164 are blank save red framing borders and some later scribbles.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents note: Considerable notes and marginalia on the inside covers and flyleaves in both black ink and pencil in Late Eastern Chaghatay in a relatively unsteady or unskilled hand.Contents note: Fols. 163-164 are blank save red framing borders and some later scribbles.Decoration: Red framing borders throughout. Floral frontispeice in green and red ink on fol. 1b. Floral doodles in black on the margins of fols. 1b and 1b, as well as 164b and the inside lower board.Hand: Poor Nasta‘līq in black ink with red ink for punctuation, overlines, words heading sections such as بیت bayt , شعر ši‘r , قصه qiṣṣa , and قطع qaṭ‘ , and the name of the Prophet. Scribe(s) unknown.Origin note: Place and date of origin unknown, but likely 19th century AD Kashgar.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Kut, Günay. Supplementary catalogue of Turkish manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with reprint of the 1930 catalogue by H. Ethé. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.
Unbound.Written in one column, 16 lines per page, in black. Text framed within double black lines and each line also framed within double black lines.According to the colophon (f. 28v), copy completed in 1322 AH 1904 or 5 AD in Kashgar.MS Turk 71. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Chagatai.
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. Four miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 10¾ × 7¼ in.Hand: Small but distinct Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953."The first mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah. For the other three surviving volumes of a five volume set copied by the same anonymous scribesee: MS. Elliott 408MS. Elliott 317and MS. Elliott 339."
Binding: Lacquered boards with floral decoration.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. 8 miniatures. Floral borders.Dimensions: 13 × 8½ in.Hand: Small Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953."The fourth mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah."
Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldDecoration: Unwan. Miniatures. Decorative borders.Dimensions: 12⅞ × 7⅞ in.Hand: Small Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953."The fifth mathnawī of Navāʼī's Khamsah."
فنون البلاغةFull catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldHand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.