Codices Manuscripti is a series of manuscript catalogues which is published on behalf of Leiden University Library.

ISSN 0169-8672, volume 39 The research for this volume was made possible by a generous grant of the Netherlands Organization of Advanced Research (NWO) in The Hague (project number: 301-39-004).

The cover illustration is derived from Cod.Or. 12.365, f. 185b, a picture of a bison found in an illustrated copy of an anonymous, 16 “'-century description of the New World, Tarïh-i Hind-i garbT. The frontispiece is derived from Cod.Or. 12.363, f. 16b, a page from a late 18th-century copy of Katib QelebT’s Cihan-niima, with a map showing (top left) the Bosphorus and some provinces of south-eastern Rumelia (right).

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