Abstract: Contains copies of imperial edicts sent to Crete and petitions presented by Cretans reflecting their social and economic concerns. Ms. likely belonged to an Ottoman bureaucrat in Crete.Binding note: Quarter leather with boards.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: Dated 1143 AH (1730 or 31) (fol. 10b).
Abstract: Vaqıf document. Signatures and stamps of three judges on fol. 1a; witnesses listed on fol. 10b.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Ms. codex.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on heavy glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Some staining and smudging. In good condition.Decoration: On fol. 1b, illuminated unvan in gold and color. Text framed in double gold lines; phrase stops in the shape of gold disks with red and blue dots.Origin: 15 Muḥarram 1162 H 5 January 1749 (fol. 9b).
"Physical description: pages 1-225 divided into two columnsall text within a golden frametitles cover both columns. 21 lines per pageexpertly written nasta'liq (more than one hand)illuminated opening piece (page 2)full leather Oriental binding with gilded ornamentation (borders) with marbled inside paper. Previous owners name in Latin: Haggi Osman Nuriddin (page 1). Page numbers added later on top.""Unidentified poetical composition (mostly Mathnawiand a number of dubayt)entitled Khazinat al-Bayan wa-Safinat al-'Irfan fi Muhimmat al-Insan wa-Maqasid al-Ginan (title on p. 13)or Nizam al-Maram (title on pp. 222224)or Nizam-i Balaghat (p. 220). Headings of sections are often in Persian. There is no indication of an author."
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.
Abstract: "Kınalızade's work on ethics in 3 books (kitāb) composed in 1565 (fol. 6b-261b)Abstract: followed by two short treatises also on ethicsAbstract: virtue and moral qualities (fol. 263b-280b and 280b-296b)Abstract: the first of which is in Arabic and consists of a list of different concepts conditioning those qualities and the explanations thereofAbstract: starting with al-tawakkulAbstract: al-jahlAbstract: khawf al-dhamm wa-ḥubb al-madaḥ etc.Abstract: and the second is in Arabic and Ottoman and is dedicated to Sultan Abdülhamid I (ruled 1774-1789)."Binding note: Brown leather with a gold tooled mandorla with pendants in the center and 4 gold tooled corner pieces in foliage pattern on upper and lower covers. Envelope flap with same gold tooled design, consisting of a small mandorla, 2 corner pieces, and gold guilloche and fillets around the edges. Spine, fore-edge flap and borders of upper and lower covers repaired in different brown leather. Pastedowns and envelope flap lining in yellow paper sprinkled in silver. Fore-edge lining in olive fabric.Ms. composite codex.Title from the lower edge of text block.Main text was copied by Derviş Mehmet Ahlakî on the 15th of Shaʻbān 997 (1589), this being the 30th copy which he did -- colophon (fol. 261b). Given the dedication to Sultan Abdülhamid I, the second and third texts, which are written continuously, are from the 18th century and were subsequently bound with the first.Main text: 19 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined with three lines in black ink, with headings and verses in separately outlined sections. Fol. 6b has an illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) made in gold leaf with dark and light blue, orange and purple watercolors. Fol. 6b, 12a, 21a, and then every 10th leaf has a circular medallion on the margin, made with gold leaf with foliage pattern in black ink in the center with red circle around it and blue ink around the edges. Fol. 112b-116a have margins sprinkled in gold. Glazed dark cream paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink starts with 1 on fol. 7. Texts 2 and 3: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text written within a single line frame outlined in red ink. Very thin light cream glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres.Ms. additions: Several short inscriptions on fol. 1b; table of contents on fol. 2b-3a; two ownership statements on fol. 6a, one in the name of Mehmet Celaleddin, accompanied by a stamp dated 189 (1775-76), and the other in the name of Ömer Hüsameddin, dated 26 M 1227 (10 February 1812).Incipit text 1: درر زواهر حمد وثنا وغرر ظواهر سپاس وستايش كه كثرت افراد فرايدينه سلك شهور وايامده احتمال اجتماع وانتظامExplicit text 1: وعليه التكلان انه مفضل منعم حنان منان تمت الرساله المجموعه من مكارم الاخلاق بعون الله الملك الخلاقIncipit text 2: من الكلمات الصحيحة الدين النصيحة الحمد لله ... وبعد فان الدنيا الفانية سريعة الزوالExplicit text 2: مراد ما نصيحت بود وكفتيم حوالت با خدا كرديم ورفتيمIncipit text 3: الحمد لله ... وبعد فان العقل والنقل متطبقان وفى المآل متوافقانExplicit text 3: واستعمال اصناف حيل ومكايده بهر حال قيام عقلا وشرعا خير المرامدر
Abstract: Collection of hymns and prayers, many of which were used in tekkes (chapter houses of dervish orders) in the Ottoman Empire.Spine title.Explicit:عليدر ظل رشر دانم على در مر حمتمكاتم
Abstract: An anonymous Ottoman military history of the Serbian front, written with the intention of being a guide to that region and covering the period from the conquest of Belgrade in 1521 to the year 1685-86. According to the text (see incipit), it was composed at the request of the Sultan (Süleyman II (ruled 1687-1691)?).Binding note: Brown leather on spine and around edges of covers, the latter decorated with a gold guilloche and two gold fillets. Olive and green foliage motif glazed paper on covers. Pastedowns in dark cream paper.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 3a.Copied in 1144 (1731 or 1732) -- colophon (fol. 30b).23 lines per page. Written in a casual small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 3b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with overlaid floral motif in green, orange, red and white watercolors, and with radiating sprigs in blue watercolor along the top edge. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper, most of it light cream, with a few sheets of dark cream and light purple stained paper.Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انزل علي نبيه وجاهدوا في سبيل الله حق جهاده ... وبعد اشبو رساله وبر صورت اولنماسنه باعث ولي النعم حضرتلرينك حاكباي عاليلر ينه عرض قلنمشدر كه سبب تذكر وترحم اولهExplicit: تاريخ هجرتك بيك طقسان يدي در كه اول زمانندن بري قرق التي قرال اولمشدر
Abstract: "Nabi's Tarih-i KaminçeAbstract: followed by a short autobiographical text by a certain Mehmet ? set in Baghdad at the end of the 17th century."Binding note: Blue and brown marbled paper over pasteboard with envelope flap. Red leather on spine, fore-edge flap and around edges of covers and the envelope flap. Endleaves and lining to the envelope flap in glazed light green stained paper.Contents: 1. Fol. 2b-32b: Tarih-i Kaminçe / NabiContents: 2. Fol. 33b-37b: An autobiographical note / Mehmet ?Ms. composite codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.Text 2 has a colophon dated beginning of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1249 (1834).21 lines per page. Written in a small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red. Texts are continuous, both are written in same hand and on same paper. Both texts written within a frame outlined in a single line of red ink, with fol. 2b-3a and fol. 33b-34a within a double gold leaf frame outlined in black ink and illuminated head pieces on fol. 2b and fol. 33b. Floral tail pieces in gold ink on fol. 32b and 37a. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper, stained yellow. Several couplets of verse on fol. 1b in a later hand.
Abstract: "Mehmet Emin Vahit Paşa's account of the 1822 Greek uprising on the island of Chios."Binding note: Brown leather with gold tooled panel design made with a gold guilloche and fillets around the borders of covers, and two gold fillets to form an inner rectangle with small rosetta stamps inside each of its corners. Rebacked with spine in different leather. Bottom edge of lower cover also rapaired in same leather as on spine. Marbled paper pastedowns.Ms. codex.In Ottoman Turkish.Title from fol. 1b.Copy completed on the 29th of Ramaḍān 1243 (1828) -- colophon (fol. 34a).21 lines per page. Written in a small nastaʻlīq in black ink with some use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a double-line frame in red ink, except on fol. 1b-2a which have a wide gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece in gold ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Cream wove paper with watermarks.Incipit: سبحان من قال فى كتابه الكريم وما النصر الا من عند الله العزيز الحكيم معلوم اولو الهى در كه دودهء شوكت اندودهء خلافت عظمالرىExplicit: برا وبحرا بو غزادن بالاتر نيجه نيجه فتحات جليله يه مطهريت دائما بنده كان دولت عليه لرين ولشاد وسرور واعدالرين برباد ومقهور ايليه
