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Rivāyet-i Barzī
Title
Rivāyet-i Barzī.
روایت برزی
Created
Ottoman Empire, 1700-1899.
Physical Description
1 item (48 leaves) : paper ; 200 mm x 150 mm
Language
Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Title assigned by cataloger.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Single columns of 15 lines. Catchword on each verso.
Script: Naskh.
Binding: Marbled paper over paper pasteboard, brown leather spine.
Decoration: none.
Contemporary foliation.
Contemporary annotations, pen trials, and illustrations throughout in several different hands; many drawings and doodles of castles, a janissary (f. 44), and other figures and animals. List of dates from H. 1126/1714 to 1171/1758 (f. 25a).
Bibliographical note, in French, pasted to front pastedown states that the manuscript is an excerpt of the Shahnameh.
In Ottoman Turkish.
Provenance
Unidentified bookstamp (f. 11b). Marginal note, dated H. 1163/1749, stating that the manuscript was read in Ḥüseyīn Efendi's coffee house (f. 26a). Gift of Prof. Charles C. Torrey, 1950.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of The Story of Barzī, an Ottoman Turkish translation from the Persian of Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah.
Variant and related titles
Story of Barzi
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2024
References
The Story of Barzī, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
The Story of Barzī, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations - 18th century.
Annotations - 19th century.
Folk tales.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 18th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 19th century.
Also listed under
فردوسي شاهنامه.
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