Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 399Origin: As appears at the close in the margin of p.92, date of 1123 [1711 or 12] accompanying presentation statement to "the late" Damat İbrahim Paşa [perhaps the earlier but not Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Paşa (d.1730) who was not even married to Fatma Sultan until 1717]. Paper, etc. are entirely consistent with an 18th century dating.Former shelfmark: "428 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1) ; "122" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.5).Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in dark maroon leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures in marbled paper (in pink, yellow, blue) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled border and accents ; sewn in pink thread, four stations ; only traces of endband primaries remain ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (vertical) and assorted raisin watermarks including grapes under cartouche and crown (p.92, etc.), grapes alone (p.16, etc.) and cartouche alone, dark cream in color, fairly transluscent though sturdy, crisp, highly sized and burnished to glossy ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper with three hats watermark.Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece at opening on p.6 consisting of a scalloped w-shaped piece with floral vegetal decoration in pink, lavender, blue, red, and white on fields of gold, blue and green (turquoise), set in a well of red and white and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame ; margins and columns within also outlined by gold rules ; red discs accent the text ; whole passages of the gloss rubricated or chrysographed to set off the designs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 7 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled ; marginalia in exquisite shapes, mainly floral, quite artistically arranged.Collation: ii, 4 V(40), IV (48) ; quinions followed by a quaternion ; final four leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Explicit: "فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات بو كتابى اوكرن ايج اب وحيات شاهدى يه هر كيم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفى"Incipit: "بنام خالق وحي وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550) with extensive marginal glosses in exquisite shapes.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 400Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.166-167, Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî copied by al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad (Hacı İbrahim bin Hacı Mehmet), keeper of the two lamps in the service of the sultan [?] ("الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية"), with transcription completed Jumādá I 1135 [February-March 1723]. Index lacks dated colophon though transcription likely executed around the same time ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: Inserts carrying continuation of glosses (paginated pp.73-74, 155-156).Former shelfmark: "٣۰٣" inscribed in black ink on upper cover ; "۱۷٥" inscribed in black ink on front flyleaf ; "550 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on back flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown to black leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings in marbled paper (mainly in blue-green, lavender, orange, and red), leather hinges (not extension of spine lining in this instance) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (red recessed onlays), gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, along with tooled accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll defined by gold fillets) in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, damaged with cores exposed ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor staining and abrasion.Support: European laid paper of several types ; in opening work (through p.60), mainly a type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24-26 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermark of crown with heart above grapes (raisin, see p.42, 44, 45, 48, etc.) and countermark "AS" [?] (see p.52, etc.), quite sturdy, beige in color, burnished, and a thinner and smoother type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.22, etc.) ; in second work (p.61 to close), mainly a type with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (vertical, more distinct), chain lines spaced 23-25 mm. apart (horizontal, more distinct), and watermark of grapes under crown (see p.86, 88, 100, 102, etc.), transluscent and crisp though quite sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, beige to buff in color, and another thinner type, lighter in color, with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of lion rampant [?] watermark (see p.62, 126, 130, 162, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of index on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche (carrying the opening heading in red "باب الالف مع الباء") flanked by vegetal motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped dome or semi-circular piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in gold ; splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî on p.62, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in pink, lavender, red and orange on a blue and pale gold ground, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with elegant swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, pink, white, blue, lavender, orange, red, etc. on a pale gold and blue ground, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents, entire piece set in a well of light blue, pink and gold bands ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within and margins defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords, sections headings, numerals, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant Ottoman hands ; bulk of index in a delicate naskh, partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured (with point of final nūn usually conjoined with bowl), fully vocalized ; final portion of index (see p.58) in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik) ; Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in another elegant naskh in a bolder line, mainly serifless (though serif rarely appears) with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, fully vocalized ; glosses accompanying Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî in a quite compact naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik).Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; for every other leaf, entire written area (at roughly the ruled marginal dimensions) is devoted to gloss ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III+4 (10), IV (18), V (28), I+1 (31), 5 V(81), I+1 (84), i ; chiefly quinions ; occasional lacuna on leaves ruled for glosses ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips opening leaf).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "ولما من الله على محرر هذه السطور بتنميق الحروف على قواعد الرسم المخبور حمده على انعامه وفضله وكرمه اذ اهله لنعم عليه منها ملابس وكل نعمة منها عنده هي انفس النفايس وكان محررها الفقير الاواه الحاج ابراهيم بن الحاج محمد الخليفة على السراجين المخصوصين بالخدمة السلطانية الراجى كل منهما عفو مولاه فى تاريخ سنة خمس وثلاثين ومائة والف من شهر جمادى الاولى من السنة المزبورة غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة ولجميع المسلمين م م م"Explicit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات بو كتابى اوكرن ايج آب حيات شاهدى يه هركيم ايلرسه دعا ايده محشرده شفاعت مصطفا"Incipit: [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] "بنام خالق وحى وتوانا قديم وقادر وبينا ودانا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.62-p.167 : [Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî] / Şahidî İbrahim Dede.2. p.60-p.61 : [blank].1. p.2-p.59 : [index for the vocabulary of Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî].Elegant copy of the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550) with extensive glosses (occupying every other leaf), preceded by an index of the vocabulary arranged by letter.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 395Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, paper, etc. suggest 18th century. According to date provided in a chronogram at the close ("بو تحفۀ حرمينم قبول [ايده] مولى") composition completed in 1093 [1682 or 3]. Date inscribed on 'title page' may provide a rough terminus ante quem of 1795.Former shelfmark: "510 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards faced in red cut velvet (or flocked cloth or felt, low nap, see envelope flap) with dark red brown leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (textile faced, leather edged framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in olive green European laid paper (fleur de lis watermark visible in lower board lining) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled borders in gold ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink [?], damaged with losses to headband ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc. ; subtle repairs to fore edge flap, etc. ; rehinged (paper).Support: non-European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and no chain lines visible, medium cream in color, quite thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; front flyleaf in European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of cross with initials below.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in white with red and orange accents on a ground of gold and blue (cobalt), surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with similar floral vegetal decoration in white with orange and red accents on fields of gold and cobalt, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents, entire piece set in well of blue and red bands with white accents ; floral accents in gold flanking the basmalah at opening on p.2 ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within defined by narrower gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; bold, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 3 V(30), IV (38), VI (50), 4 V(90) ; chiefly quinions with a quaternion and a senion ; final two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "ديدم تمامنه نابى بو نسخه نك تاريخ بو تحفۀ حرمينم قبول ايله [ايده] مولى"Incipit: "اى بيت حرامى صف غفرانه مقام وى باب سلامى مدخل دار سلام ..."Title from front flyleaf.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Ottoman poet Nabi's account of his pilgrimage (ḥajj) to Mecca and Medina.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 676Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.313-14, composition of the work completed in the first part of Jumādá I 1063 [March-April 1653] with transcription of this copy completed 17 Shaʻbān 1174 [ca. 24 March 1761].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover, "IL 44" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (swirling vegetal design, somewhat reminiscent of marbling, in black and pink on a blue ground) with red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked endbands in dark brown and cream, damaged and nearly detached with threads undone and cores exposed ; overall in fair conditon with minor abrasion, lifting of spine leather, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of names (see p.214, 215, etc.) and lion (or other four-legged beast / quadruped, see p.312, 317, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece at opening on p.6 consisting of a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) with swirling floral vegetal decoration in lavender, red, green, etc. on a field of gold and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red ; keywords, words being elucidated (as notabilia in margins), and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame, elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; an elegant Turkish hand, serifless, with dramatic tilt to the right, elongation of horizontal strokes, and mainly closed counters, though adhering fairly closely to the baseline.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), 16 V(162) ; almost exclusively quinions ; final five leaves originally left blank, now carry excerpts in a large bold hand ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Authorial" then "scribal," reads "وقع الفراغ من الجمع والتأليف سنة ثلاث وستين والف هجرة من له العز والشرف في اوائل شهر جمادى الاولى يسرنا الله ما هو اخرى واولى ونسأل الله تعالى التسديد والتأبيد وان يجعله خالصا لوجه ... والاولياء العظام والمشايخ الفخام ارباب التجريد رب احشنا معهم تحت لوائهم يا مجيد والحمد لله على الاتمام بعون الله الملك العلام في ١٧ شعبان المعظم سنة ١١٧٤"Explicit: "دولت كونين اكا معطوف اوله فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلات وزن بودر چون رمل محذوف اوله بحمد الله تعالى بو كتاب تحفة الملوك تمام وبو علم فاخرى تأليف وتصنيف اولنان ... ان ذاك القديم كان عديدا وسيبقى هذا الجديد قديما"Incipit: "سپاس بى قياس وشكر بى مقياس اول خداى خالق جن وانسه اولسونكه ..."Title from opening matter on p.8.Ms. codex.Fine copy of a commentary on the well-known versified Persian-Turkish vocabulary of Şâhidî İbrahim Dede of Muğla (d.1550), Tuhfe-yi Şâhidî [or Tuhfe-i Şâhidî]. Contents listing on opening added leaf (p.2). Excerpts at close (from p.315) address Fawāʼiḥ al-jamāl wa-fawātiḥ al-jalāl (here Fawātiḥ al-jamāl / فواتح الجمال) of al-Shaykh Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrá (d.1221).
Abstract: Collection consisting of two unbound codices and a leaf on disparate topics.Binding note: Loose in folder.Contents: 1. leaves 1b-57a: Turkish songs. Arranged by makam. Turkish in Arabic script.Contents: 2. leaves 58b-71b: Commonplace book of Persian and Arabic poetry and extracts from religious works. Excised from a larger manuscript.Contents: 3. leaf 72: Anecdote narrated by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-ʻArūḍī, tutor of al-Amīr Abū Kālanjār ibn al-Marzubān ibn al-Amīr ʻIzz al-Dawlah. Arabic.Ms. codices.Title supplied by cataloger.Physical description: Entire collection is stained and ragged; in fair condition.Codex 1: 215 x 143 mm. 20-21 lines per page, in 1-3 columns; written in small, casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication in red, green and blue.Codex 2: 194 x 120 mm. Varying lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication.Leaf: 161 x 124 mm. 12 lines per page; written in large, casual naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Some vocalization.
A commentary on 100 verses of Tuḥfe-yi Şāhidī with discussion of poetic meter, lexicons and explanation of difficulties. A long preface by Muḥammed Muṣīb al-șehir bi-Narḫīzāde in which he describes his travels around the Eastern Mediterranean and how he came to find out about Şāhidī and his poetry introduces the work.
Copy of a history of the years 971 to 1008 A.H. (1563-1599 C.E.) in Turkey, covering the end of the reign of Süleyman I, the entire reigns of Selim II and Murad III, and the first five years of Mehmed III.