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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: early Ottoman history
    sub title: the Oxford Anonymous chronicle (Bodleian Library, Ms Marsh 313)
  title info:
    title: Oxford Anonymous chronicle (Bodleian Library, Ms Marsh 313)
  name:
    name part: Bodleian Library
    name part: Marsh 313.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Kastritsis, Dimitris J.
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of commentary,
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ota
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 253 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm.
  abstract: The manuscript translated here contains one of the most important texts for understanding the development of early Ottoman historiography in the fifteenth century. The so-called Oxford Anonymous chronicle is a comprehensive history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish, compiled from various sources to tell the story of the dynasty from its rise to the year 1484 (AH 889). Like several other histories produced around the same time, some of which it influenced, it presents the Ottomans in the context of wider Islamic history and contains a coherent argument for their superiority over other dynasties. The manuscript had previously belonged to the Dutch orientalist Jacob Golius (d. 1667). Although its history is largely unknown, it was probably a presentation copy made for Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512). The work itself is a product of Bayezid's patronage, and shows a strong preoccupation with the perennial Ottoman problem of dynastic succession. Fully one third of the manuscript contains an older text recounting in epic terms the struggles of Mehmed I against his brothers (1402-13). The obvious explanation is that when Oxford Anonymous was compiled, Bayezid II was also facing a rival claimant to the throne, his brother Cem Sultan (d. 1495).
  table of contents: Introduction. Oxford Anonymous (Marsh 313) in the context of early Ottoman historical writing ; Description and history of the manuscript ; The author and circumstances of composition ; Overview of the contents ; The introductory chapters and their significance ; The sections on Ottoman history -- Translation. Preface ; Chapter 1 ; Chapter 2 ; [Lacuna] Inquiry 2 (Orhan) ; Inquiry 3 (Murad I) ; Inquiry 4 (Bayezid I) ; Inquiry 5 (Mehmed I) ; Inquiry 6 (Murad II) ; Inquiry 7 (Mehmed II) ; Inquiry 8 (Bayezid II).
  note: historical introduction, translation, and commentary by Dimitri J. Kastritsis.
  note: Translated from the Ottoman Turkish.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-232) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bodleian Library.
      name part: Marsh 313
    genre: Translations into English
  subject:
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
    temporal: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
    temporal: 1288-1453
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    geographic: Turkey
    topic: History
    temporal: 1453-1683
    genre: Sources
  classification: 956.1/01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Translated texts for Byzantinists ; 5
  identifier: 9781786940681 (hbk.)
  identifier: 178694068X
  identifier: 9781786940681
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170524
    record change date: 20190718162251.0
    record identifier: in00004051852