"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."
Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Persian ghazals (ff. 1b-16b). Nesimi, Dīvān-i Nesīmī (ff. 19b-190a).Dimensions: 21.8 × 13.5 cm (size of leaf). 15 × 78 cm (size of written area).Hand: Taʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
Small collection of poetry written on a long, narrow notebook bound along the top (safīnah style) chiefly in Ottoman Turkish with some Arabic and Persian; a number of pages are blank.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 436Origin: As appears in colophon at close, copy executed by Safr ʻAlī ibn Khudāwirdī al-Kaffawī (Sefer Ali bin Hüdaverdi el-Kefevî) with transcription completed mid-Dhū al-Ḥijjah 962 [October-November 1555].Former shelfmark: "120 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in purplish maroon cloth with brown leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pinkish paper with red fibers ; sewn in white thread, six stations, apparently over two wide tapes ; overall in fairly good condition with only minor abrasion, small split in spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced roughly 30 mm. apart and watermark of anchor (two line) in circle with six-pointed star above, mainly cream in color (a few leaves tinted pale yellow), quite sturdy though transluscent, burnished ; one bifolium marbled (blue and white) on only one surface.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of a series of gold bands outlined in black fillets with additional colored bands and rules (in green, blue, red) ; triangular accent pieces appear in opposite corners of the written area, for opening leaves contain text in white (nearly lost) on a gold ground with arabesque border in blue or green, but mainly contain chī cloud or arabesque design in black, red, etc. on gold ground with arabesque border in blue, green, black, etc. ; elucidation (Persian) often rubricated or in green ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with blue, red, or green accents ; text of incipit page set off by cloud-bands in red lines ; margins of incipit and facing page gold-flecked.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; large, elegant Crimean [?] hand ; serifless with characteristic elongation of horizontal strokes, effect of words descending to baseline, etc.Layout: Written mainly in 3 hemistiches (in six lines) alternating with 5-7 lines of Persian commentary / elucidation per page, all on the diagonal ; occasionally additional lines appear in the accent pieces of the opposite outer corners.Collation: i, III-1 (5), 3 III(23), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب المجموع في اواسط ذي الحجة المبارك كتبه [كذا] عن يد الضعيف النحيف المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى غفر الله ذنوبه سفير على بن خداوردى الكفوى في تاريخ سنه ٩٦٢ تم"Explicit: "جامی ارباب و فاجر زه عشقس نروند جوهر خود می شناس ار در وجودت جوهر است سر مبادت کرا زین رآه قدم بار کشی"Incipit: "[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعظم اسماء علیم حکیم] محترمان حرم انس را کوس شه خالی و بانک غافلش دردسرست تازه حدیثیست ز عهد قدیم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a selection of poems by Jāmī (d.1492) in Persian and Arabic with interlinear commentary / elucidation in Persian and occasional added elucidation in Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 346Origin: As appears in colophon at close of opening section (p.19) executed by Muḥammad ʻAlī Tabrīzī with transcription completed 5 Ṣafar 1286 [ca. 17 May 1869]. As appears in colophon at close of second section (p.41) executed by Muḥammad ʻAlī Tabrīzī with transcription completed eleven days later 16 Ṣafar 1286 [ca. 28 May 1869].Former shelfmark: "379 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on interior of lower cover.Binding: Boards covered in seafoam green coated and textured paper ; Type III binding (without flap) but not flush (too large) ; board linings in untinted paper ; sewn in green-blue thread, four stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, upper cover detached at spine, text block fully detached at spine except for opening and closing leaves still affixed to spine lining and hinges, lifting and losses of paper (particularly at spine), etc.Support: Paper (possibly European wove paper) tinted a striking magenta color, quite well-burnished to glossy, thick and sturdy (possibly two thicknesses).Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of each of the three main sections (p.2, 20, 42), mainly consisting of a large cartouche carrying a statement indicating the original patronage in white bordered in gold vegetal motifs set in a delicate array of swirling vegetal and floral motifs in black, white, light blue, red, lavender, turquoise, etc. and set in a well of turquoise or lapis lazuli ; written area throughout bordered in a gold frame, often with outermost blue rule ; keywords, section headings, abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords), and occasional vocalization in white ; textual dividers in the form of four dots in white.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite specimen of Persian calligraphy ; bold hand in a heavy line, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongation and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes ; headings mainly in an elegant seriffed naskh or tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in roughly 14 lines per page, with written area often divided to two or three columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: 3 IV(24), IV+1 (33) ; exclusively quaternions (one anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [opening section] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمام شد اين نسخۀ شريف و بانجام رسيد اين نامۀ لطيف در روز دوشنبه پنجم شهر صفر المظفر سنه ١٢٨۶ در دار السلطنۀ تبريز بيد اقل خلق الله محمد على تبريزى ١٢٨۶" ; [second section] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "در روز جمعه شانزدهم شهر صفر المظفر من شهور سنه ١٢٨۶ هزار و دويست و هشتاد و شش من هجرة النبويه على صاحبها افضل الصلوة و ازكى التحية در دار السلطنه تبريز بيد بندۀ فانى و عبد مذنب جانى تراب قدم ارباب قلم محمد على تبريزى صورت انجام و اختتام پذیرفت"Incipit: "جهة وزیری که رایات جهانداری و کامکاری به قبۀ فلک زنگاری ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy reproducing several calligraphy specimens (qiṭʻāt / kıt'alar) executed by Mīrzā Sanglākh, Muḥammad ʻAlī Khurasānī (d.1877) for Muḥammad ʻAlī Pāshā, his son Ibrāhīm Pāshā, etc. including a selection of his own poetry in Persian and an assortment of offical letters and addresses, mainly in Turkish, from a range of viziers.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 419Origin: Lacks detailed colophon though partially effaced patronage statements appear with each work, and the statement following the final work (p.168) is dated 1098 [1686 or 7].Former shelfmark: "514 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures and lining of envelope flap in marbled paper (mainly in red and brown) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted central ornament in a diamond shape (filled with crosshatch pattern) with rosette accents and stroke pendants, as well as tooled and gold-painted border in a series of s-shaped stamps with flanking fillets and rosette accents ; sewn in pink thread, two stations, failing ; worked chevron endbands in blue and yellow, only headband remains ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (mainly at fore edge flap), spine slant (slightly cocked), etc. ; repair to spine (rebacked) in cream textile.Support: non-European laid paper of a few types ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, for most fairly distinct, some appearance of curving) and somewhat irregular chain lines (mainly single but with occasional groups of two) sometimes appearing about 25 mm. apart, cloudy formation, dark beige to light brown in color, fairly thin and transluscent, well-burnished ; another type with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (fairly distinct) and occasional chain lines visible, typically tinted pale blue, mint green, pink or yellow, well-burnished.Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of each main work (see pp.8, 46, 58, 138), each consisting of a variation on a rectangular panel with gold cartouche (in one case carrying title, see p.58) surmounted by a semi-circular piece or dome overlaid with delicate floral and cloud motifs on grounds in gold and shades of dark and light blue with decorative bands and surmounting vertical stalks (tīgh) ; headings, keywords, excerpts, and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords) rubricated ; headings in selection of poetry chrysographed ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas and gold discs ; occasional overlining in red ; written area and divisions within surrounded by narrow gold frame defined by black fillets.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) and naskh ; elegant Ottoman hands in a medium line ; opening works (through p.148) in a fine nastaʻlīq/talik, serifless with effect of inclination to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots ; final works in careful naskh, two clear Ottoman hands, opening hand (pp.152-157) mainly serifless, compact yet vertically elongated with dramatic inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, free assimilation of letters, pointing in strokes or distinct dots ; second hand (p.160 to close) partially but somewhat irregularly seriffed, spacious and neatly formed with slight tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iv, V(10), IV+1 (19), III (25), 4 V(65), II+3 (72), II (76), V (86) ; chiefly quinions ; final leaves and some pages between works left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves serving as flyleaves at opening).Incipit: [Rahatü'l-eşbah] "حمد بيحد و شكر لا يعد اول حي وقيومه كه حياتى سرمديه [؟] در آز الده ... وبعد بو اضعف العباد اعنى وجدى ناصراد ... ونامنه راحة الاشباح فى بيان الارواح ديدم ..." ; [Risale-yi Hakikat-i nevm] "يا واجب الوجود يا فائض الجود جناب عزتكدن مأمول وعالى حضرتكدن ... وبعد بو فقير وحقير اعنى وجدى پر تقصير دير كه وقتا كيم راحة الاشباح نام رساله نك تحريرندن فارغ اولدمسه مراد ايدندمكه حقيقت نوم ايله حقيقت رؤيا بياننده بر رساله تحرير وآنده انواع واقسام رؤيايى على طريق الاجمال تسطير ايدم ... دانى اوچ مقاله اوزرينه ترتيب ايلدم وبالله التوفيق ..." ; [Risale-yi Kutü'l-ervah] "منت اول خداي منانه مخصوصدر كه آدمك روحنى تشريف اضافت ونفخت فيه من روحى ايله جميع ارواحدن ممناز ايلدى ... اما بعد بو فقير دلداده اعنى وجدى افتاده دير كه بوندن اول بعض اخوان صفانك التماسلريله راحة الاشباح نامنده بر رساله مفيده تحرير وانده روح انسانى حقنده وآرده اولان اقاويله اجمالا تسطير ايتمشيدم ... قوت الارواح اسميله مسمى اولمغه ..." ; [treatise on eşbah, etc.] "نحمدك يا واجب الوجود ونشكرك يا ذا الفضل والجود ونصلى على حبيبك المصطفى وعلى آله وصحبه اهل الصفا وبعد بو فقيره تردد ايدن ياراندن [؟] ابراهيم چلبى ديمكله معروف وطلب علم ومعرفتله موصوف بر ياغار ورفيق وفادار ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.9.Ms. codex.14. p.169-178 : [blank].13. p.168 : [partially effaced patronage statement].12. p.166-p.167 : Hādhā Sharḥ Aṣḥāb al-kahf.11. p.160-p.165 : [masāʼil opening with "Masʼalah ʻan al-nisāʼ al-Ṭahārāt...etc."].10. p.158-p.159 : [blank].9. p.152-p.157 : [selection of poetry].8. p.149-151 : [blank].7. p.138-p.148 : [another treatise on eşbah] / İbrahim Çelebi [?].6. p.137 : [blank].5. p.58-p.136 : Risale-yi Kutü'l-ervah.4. p.55-p.57 : [blank].3. p.46-p.54 : [Risale-yi Hakikat-i nevm ile hakikat-i rüya beyanında].2. p.44-p.45 : [blank].1. p.8-p.43 : Rahatü'l-eşbah fi beyanü'l-ervah / Ahmet Vecdi Efendi.Elegant copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of several brief treatises in Ottoman Turkish on spirits, sleep, dreams, the afterlife, etc. opening with a work by Ahmet Vecdi Efendi (d.1633), followed by a selection of poetry and excerpts in Arabic on assorted masāʼil, etc. Contributions to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 383Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; İsmail Paşa claims in Īḍāḥ al-maknūn (Keşfe'l-zunun zeyli) that Katip Mustafa completed the composition in 1070 [1659 or 60] but material addressed in the text suggests a dating after 1663 (see p.35, etc.) ; paper certainly suggests 17th century.Accompanying materials: Torn scrap with depiction of pyramid and Sphinx at Giza in gold on one side and text in Greek on the other side (paginated pp.135-136).Former shelfmark: "۳۲۳" inscribed in ink in label on upper cover ; "78 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in dark red-brown leather with recycled paper (manuscript waste) and linen repair over spine (possibly to reattach upper cover, now detached from textblock with spine leather visible underneath) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in an elegant marbled paper (mainly in blue, pink, orange, light green, etc.), hinges in a different marbled paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted lozenge-shaped central ornament and tooled border ; sewn in light pink and blue thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 25-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of paschal lamb in four-lobed circle watermark (see p.2, 32, 96, etc. and compare Piccard inv. J 340/no. 86802 / Venice 1662 and Heawood 2840 / Verona 1678, and "agneau pascal" marks nos.1-24 / 1635-1670 in Velkov, Les filigranes dans les documents ottomans), burnished, sturdy and mainly cream in color with some leaves tinted pale pink ; flyleaves and occasional leaves within the gatherings (carrying text in the same hand) with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown-star-crescent (80 mm. long parallel to chains, see front flyleaf, p.16, 134, etc.).Decoration: Keywords chrysographed ; section headings rubricated ; excerpts from Qurʼān, etc. overlined in red ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs and red inverted commas (in threes).Script: Dīvānī and naskh ; elegant hand ; serifs, looped descenders and many letterforms characteristic of dīvānī script, freely though not excessively ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline ; extensively vocalized ; Qurʼānic passages, etc. in naskh.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, III+5 (11), 6 V(71), I+1 (74), V (84) ; chiefly quinions ; final leaves left blank ; a few lacuna for rubricated headings, etc., in one case empty written area crossed through with red ink, see pp.137-138 ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "حمد وسپاس وشكر بى قياس اول منشئ مناشير صحايف ارض وسما ... امانتى [؟] مشار اليه فاضل احمد پاشا حضرتلينه تفويض بيوريلوب وفقير وحقير واهب طريق انشا وراغب دلع املا كاتب مصطفى زهدى ... روضة الغزا اسميله تسميه ومرسوم ... دور بيان جنك استورغون وفتح قلعۀ اويوار خير اثار"Title from opening matter on p.14.Ms. codex.Elegant, yet possibly draft copy (müsvedde / مسوده, see inscriptions on pp.1 and 2), of a brief history by Katip Mustafa Zühtü ( Kātib Muṣṭafá Zuhdī ) addressing Ottoman military campaigns against the Habsburg Empire, namely the campaigns of Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Paşa (d.1676), including the taking of the fortress of Nové Zámky (Uyvar) in 1073 (24 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1073/30 July 1663). Appears to include the text of Tarih-i Uyvar (compare Istanbul University TY2488).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 879Origin: As appears in colophon on p.105, copied [and authored ?] by Jaʻfar ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Qummī with transcription completed in Tehran 6 Rabīʻ II 1296 [ca. 30 March 1879], presumably on the order of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qajār (r.1848-1896) "حسب الامر وفرمايش جناب مستطاب سرور مكرم مخدوم و معظم" (see closing matter on p.105).Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 14 A manual of Persian and Turkish conversation in 4 bāb. Copied in Tehran in 1296" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Portion of a page torn from Luzac catalog, 1911, with description of this manuscript "2546 Persian-Turkish conversations. A ms. containing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in parallel columns. Neatly written, the Persian in Nīm-Shikastah, the Turkish in Naskhī. 8vo. Leather-binding. pp. 93. Written at Teheran, A.H. 1296." as well as penciled note (likely in hand of E. Husselman "n. f. in Mich. Isl. MSS." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes | 19th century [in hand of Emilie Savage-Smith ?]" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.7-8).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 28Binding: Pasteboards covered in light orange-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in purple-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers in blind-tooled in mitred-panel style ; sewn in cream thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support:European "laid" paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark "A PIRIE & SONS 1877" (see p.12, 22-23, etc.) ; embossed with medallion carrying the Lion and Sun emblem of the Iranian state (officially adopted by Muḥammad Shāh Qajār in 1836).Script: Naskh and shikastah-nastaʻlīq ; a compact, elegant hand ; Persian text in shikastah-nastaʻlīq, compact and freely ligatured with effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in distinct dots, elongation of horizontal strokes and sweeping descenders (many reversed or recurved) ; Turkish text in a fine naskh, mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, open and close counters, some free assimilation of letters.Layout: Written mainly in 7 lines per page, divided to two columns with Persian in right column and Turkish in left column ; list of vocabulary at close in four columns.Collation: i, 3 VI (36), IV (44), II (48), i ; three senions followed by a quaternion and a binion ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," [and authorial ?] reads "باتمام رسيد در دار الخلافه طهران صانها الله عن الحادثات [؟] بتاريخ يوم يكشنبه ششم شهر ربيع الثانى ١٢٩۶ وانا اقل خلق الله ... جعفر بن حاجى [؟] محمد حسين القمى اللهم اغفرها بحق الحق والنبى المطلق فى سنه ١٢٩۶"Explicit: "يعنى تمام اولدى حسب الامر وفرمايش جناب مستطاب سرور مكرم ومخدوم معظم باتمام رسيد ..."Incipit: "اشبوه رساله تكلم ايچون درت باب اوزره تبويب اولنون ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.11.Ms. codex.Elegant copy (possibly autograph) of a treatise addressing conversational phrases in Persian and Turkish in four chapters witha Turkish preface, parallel Persian-Turkish text, and a brief glossary at the close.
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, date among tables, etc. would suggest late 18th century or early 19th century.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1056Binding: Wrapped in a short length of brown leather (unlined, limp) attached to opening of roll ; rolled around narrow wooden dowel (with finials of wood), not affixed to roll ; roll comprised of two lengths of parchment joined together ; overall in fair condition with minor pest damage and abrasion of leather.Support: Parchment ; two sturdy pieces joined with adhesive (seams and overlap visible) ; writing seemingly on hair side ; pale yellow in color ; opening piece 570 mm. long, ; second piece 380 mm. long ; some warping, creasing and cracking, loss of ink.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of roll consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece filled with large, swirling floral vegetal motifs mainly in dark pink, white and light blue on a gold ground, set in a well of red-orange and gold and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; keywords and numerals and alternating columns or rows of headings and numerals rubricated ; tables framed in heavy gold bands outlined with black fillets ; narrower gold bands set apart headings and define margins ; rows and columns of tables defined by black fillets.Script: Naskh ; chiefly a clear Ottoman hand in a medium line, small and compact ; mainly serifless with very slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, curvilinear though somewhat flattened descenders, etc.Layout: Single column consisting of a series of tables (thirteen in total) with notes addressing occasions, etc. in the margins framing the tables along the length of the roll.Explicit: "بو روزنامه ده تحرير اولنان سمت قبله نك قاعدسى املا مولده واسلامبولك طولنه وعرضنه مساوى اولان زمينلرده صحيح ساعت لر ايله بو جدولده كى مقداره كلدكده بر كمسنه كونشه قرشودوره تمام قبل توجه اتمش اولور بو روزنامه ده امساك اتمك ايچون ... كمسته اون بش دقيقه ... كرك ..."Incipit: "بو غر نامده محرم كلدكده شهور عربينك تحتنده اولان ارقاملرى سكز خانه ده اولان ارقامك سنه ده هر برينه ضم ايده ديز وهفته كونلرينك تحتندن ..."Title from closing text (at end of roll) describing contents.Ms. roll.Elegant copy of what appears to be a version of the almanac or calendar attributed to Darendeli Mehmet Efendi (Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān al-Dārandalī, d.1739) addressing qiblah direction, times of prayer, times of imsāk (15 minutes before time given which corresponds to dawn), etc. in rotulus format (i.e. scroll opening vertically). See King, "Part II. A Survey of Tables for Regulating the Times of Prayer," pp.442 (Fig. 14.4 b-c), 444-445 and Osmanlı astronomi literatürü tarihi (İhsanoğlu, Ed.), vol.1, no.271, pp.406-410.
Origin: As appears in colophon at close of roll, copied by Mehmet Zuhuri in the medrese (madrasah) of Mahmut Paşa Veli. Date of transcription not specified. Date with notes on paper lining leather wrap and added between month and day tables provides a terminus ante quem of 1868. Table of years covers 1261 [1845 or 6] through 1349 [ca. 1933]. Rubricated date between tables (1194 [1780 or 81]) may reflect date of transcription of the exemplar or date of composition of this recension.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1055Binding: Wrapped in a length of dark red-brown leather (lined with paper) attached to opening of roll ; rolled around narrow wooden dowel affixed to end of roll, finials of ivory or bone with inlaid wood and metal ; roll comprised of two lengths of parchment ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and tears.Support: Parchment ; two pieces of slightly different thicknesses joined with adhesive (seams and overlap visible) ; writing seemingly on hair side ; opening piece 610 mm. long, thin, but thicker and sturdier than second piece ; second piece 322 mm. long, quite thin and even transluscent ; some abrasion and tears, minor pigment burn.Decoration: Opening rectangular panel may have once contained a horiscope, now effaced with traces of blank and orange ink (elsewhere orange ink has been used to apply writing over effaced contents of مدخل اذر columns) ; keywords and alternating columns or rows of headings and numerals rubricated ; jadwals surrounded by "gold" frames, gone to green ; outer margin defined by a narrower rule of the same.Script: Naskh ; chiefly a clear Ottoman hand in a medium line, small and compact ; mainly serifless with very slight effect of inclination to the left, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, free assimilation of some letters (hāʼ joined to preceding dāl, etc.), point of nūn often assimilated with abbreviated bowl, etc.Layout: Single column consisting of a series of tables (twelve in total) with notes addressing occasions, etc. in the margins framing the tables along the length of the roll.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "سوده محمد ظهورى بمدرسۀ محمود پاشا ولى"Explicit: "بو روزنامه ده تحرير اولان سمت قبلنك فائده سى بودر كه دائما صحيح ساعتلر بو جدولده كى مقداره كلدكده برادم كونشه قرشودورسه تمام قبليه توجه اتمش اولور وبو ضحوۀ كبرانك فائده سى قلبه كبى صحيح ساعتلر بو جدولده كى مقداره كلدكده ضحوۀ كبرى اولور وصوم ايچون امساك كمنه اون بش دقيقه مقدم اتمك كركدر م"Incipit: "بو غره نماده محرم كلدكده شهور عربينك تحتنده اولان ارقاملرى سكز خانه ده اولان ارقامك سنه ده هر برينه ضم ايده دز هفته كونلرينك تحتنده ..."Title from closing text (at end of roll) describing contents.Ms. roll.Carefully executed copy of what appears to be a version of the almanac or calendar attributed to Darendeli Mehmet Efendi (Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻUthmān al-Dārandalī, d.1739) addressing qiblah direction, times of prayer, times of imsāk (15 minutes before time given which corresponds to dawn), etc. in rotulus format (i.e. scroll opening vertically). See King, "Part II. A Survey of Tables for Regulating the Times of Prayer," pp.442 (Fig. 14.4 b-c), 444-445 and Osmanlı astronomi literatürü tarihi (İhsanoğlu, Ed.), vol.1, no.271, pp.406-410.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 871Origin: Lacks dated colophon though discussion of diagrams on p.3 address the years 1064-1066 [1653-6] ; paper, etc. suggests 17th century ; dated birth notice on p.15 provides rough terminus ante quem of 1712.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 20Binding: Boards covered in mauve cloth with red-brown leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted laid paper ; spine carries raised bands and is gold-stamped "RUZNAME-I-HAZRET-I-SHEYKH VEFA" ; sewn in white thread, eight stations, rather tightly bound ; stuck-on endbands in yellow ; head edge gilt ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and countermark "V G" under trefoil visible (see p.6, etc.) ; pastedowns/flyleaves and added leaves in a much later laid paper.Decoration: Simple 'headpieces' carry headings for most of the tables, consisting of rectangular pieces with cartouches set in fields of green, blue or red ; written area surrounded by triple rule-border in red and black ; keywords, headings and some numerals and symbols (in tables and diagrams) rubricated ; consisting mainly of tables and diagrams.Script: Naskh ; compact Turkish hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.Layout: Varies though each page after opening with circular diagrams (see p.2) typically with 5 lines of text above table and a varying numer of lines adjacent to table ; frame-ruled.Collation: ix, IV (8), ix ; nine blank added leaves (including flyleaves) inserted before and after leaves carrying the text ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, center of lower margin on the recto of each leaf only ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (does not include added leaves).Explicit: "احتراز لازمدر رياضتدن وسوار اولمقدن الله اعلم"Incipit: "اكر يكشنبه حرفندن غفلت اولنور ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490) comprised mainly of tables for calendar conversion, etc. with instructions in Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 821Origin: Lacks dated colophon though discussion on p.1 addresses the year 1126 [1714 or 15] as an example and discussion on p.3 address the years 1064-1066 [1653-6] ; date in diagram on p.3 1157 [1744 or 5] may suggest a date of transcription ; paper, etc. would suggest 17th or 18th century.Accompanying materials: Slip with notes inserted at close.Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin) covered in black, red, orange and white mottled paper (sponge painted or faux marbled look) with red leather over spine and edges/turn-ins ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted wove paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; overall in fair with minor pest damage, abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (roughly 80 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, etc.), sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Written area surrounded by double rule-border in red and black ; keywords, headings and some numerals (in tables and diagrams) rubricated ; numerous tables and diagrams.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Varies though each page after opening two with circular diagrams (see pp.2-3) typically with 3 lines of text above table and a varying numer of lines adjacent to table ; frame-ruled.Collation: III+3 (9) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "شرح دائره سال حرف يكشنبه اسان وجهله بيان اولندى ... روزنامۀ حضرت شيخ وفا قدس سره اكر يكشنبه حرفندن غفلت اولور ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the calendar or almanac of Şeyh Vefa (Muslihittin Mustafa, d.1490) comprised mainly of tables for calendar conversion, etc. with instructions in Turkish.
Poetry on astrological significance of each day depending on positions of stars and times of day when various stars exert their influence. Arranged according to days and hours of appearance of each star.With: Kitâb-ı usûl-i melhame (ff. 2r-19r).17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).Light-cream laid paper.Written in vocalized naskh, in two columns, in black rubricated in red, 13 lines per page.Copied in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā, most probably in 841 AH [1438 AD], the date of the first title in the volume(see f. 18r).MS Turk 13. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 137Origin: As appears in colophons on p.135, p.270, and p.457, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar Abīʻzādah (İsmail Ömer Abizade) in Erzurum. Transcription finished in Dhū al-Qaʹdah and Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1109 [May-July 1698].Accompanying materials: Slips carrying notes inserted (paginated pp.75-76, pp.197-198, pp.379-380).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 92. Sharh al-awamil."Binding: Pasteboards once covered in marbled paper (in yellow, light green, and pink ; see envelope flap) with dark red leather over spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and cream, tailband in good condition, tailband damaged with core exposed ; overall in poor condition with flap entirely lost, significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather (especially foreedge flap), delamination of boards, staining, moisture damage, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (horizontal) ; sturdy and well-burnished ; watermark difficult to examine but appears to include a line of wreath or scrollwork ; two quires in a different European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and double-headed eagle watermark ; dark cream and crisp but sturdy.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; clear and compact Turkish hand ; virtually serifless though occasional stray head-serif appears on lām or alif of lām alif ligature ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; many closed counters ; mainly tapered descenders ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; alif maqṣūrah and final yāʼ often mardūdah ; freely ligatured with final hāʼ often joined preceding rāʼ, dāl, etc.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 V(60), III (66), I (68), 6 V(128), II+1 (133), I (135), V (145), VIII (161), 6 V(221), I (223), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and inserts, skips two pages between pp.441-442).Colophon: [1] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد واحقر الطلاب اسماعيل بن عمر الملقب بابى زاده غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه في شهر ذي القعدة في يوم السبت في سنة تسع ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف تمت تم تم تم في وقت قبيل العصر في بلدة ارزن الروم ... في محل دار اغا جى تمت; [2] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد واحقر الطلاب اسماعيل بن عمر الملقب بابى زاده غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه في يوم الثلثاء في شهر ذي القعدة في سنة تسع ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف تم تم تم" ; [3] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد و احقر الطلاب اسماعيل بن عمر الملقب بابي زاده غفر الله له ولوالديها واحسن اليهما واليه في وقت الظهر في يوم الاحد في شهر ذي الحجة في سنة تسع ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف في بلدة ارزن الروم ... في محلة دار اغاجى اللهم احفظنا من شرور انفسنا يا رب العالمين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين تمت تم تم تم"Incipit: "الحمد لمن وجب علينا ثناؤه ... وبعد فاني لما رأيت الطالبين يطلبون شرحا للعوامل الشيخ الامام عبد القاهر يجل اعرابها اردت ان ابين اعرابها بقدر طاقتي ... وسميته بالدرنوج [؟] وما توفيقي الا بالله ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. p.278-p.457 : "... اما بعد فهذه كلمات مفهومات فهمنا من كلام الشراح لمتون النحو ... ".4. p.271-p.277 : [blank].3. p.142-p.270 : "با حرف جر اسم لفظا مجرور مجرود يدر بانك مضاف اولمش ...".2. p.136-p.141 : [blank].1. p.4-p.135 : "الحمد لمن وجب علينا ثناؤه ... وبعد فاني لما رأيت الطالبين يطلبون شرحا للعوامل ... اردت ان ابين اعرابها ... وسميتها بالدرنوج [؟]".Clear copy of a collection of three anonymous commentaries on ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī's (d.1078?) al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah, on Arabic syntax, with the first commentary providing iʻrāb and the second in Turkish. Text of the matn is included with each.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 674Origin: As appears in colophon on p.229, copied by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, known as Khayr [?] Allāh Zādah (Hayrullahzade Mehmet İbrahim) with transcription completed during the last days of Muḥarram 1053 [April 1643].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf, "IL 247a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled laid paper (blue and salmon on white) with dark brown leather over spine and fore-edges/turn-ins ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in pale pink paper ; sewn in dull pink, two stations ; only traces of endbands remain, blue and pink threads over leather core ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of spine leather, delamination of boards at corners, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-29 mm. apart (horizontal), crown-star-crescent watermark (see p.74, 75, 80, etc.) and "A C" under trefoil countermark (see p.74, etc.), sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished ; another type occasionally interspersed with the first, having 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart (horizontal), and three hats watermark (see p.174, 175, etc.), thinner, crisper and darker in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; overlining in red ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; rather fine Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation of horizontal strokes, quite rounded with mainly curvilinear descenders (some sweeping, rightward descenders mainly majmūʻah), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, point of final nūn set quite deep in bowl, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 11 V(110), V-1 (119) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "جف قلم زائرة عن تسويد هذه السير النبوى عم بعون الله الملك العزيز الغني عن يد اضعف عباد الله تعالى محمد بن ابراهيم الشهير خير [؟] الله زاده المولوى الخطيب اصلح شانهم وصانهم عما شانهم وقع الفراغ في اواخر محرم الحرام لسنه ثلث وخمسين والف م"Explicit: "خواجۀ عالم ايله صلى الله عليه وسلم پاك ومجلى وحليۀ صحت ايله محلى اولوب مدة العمر درد پاى كورمك اولمدى تمت الحمد لله على التمام وعلى حبيبه افضل السلام"Incipit: "كنون وقتست كزكلك سخن كوى بسوى ذكر پيغمبر نهم روى"Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the first part of Veysî's work on the sīrah of the Prophet. Numerous poetic and other excerpts on added leaves at opening and close of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 377Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; dated inscription on recto of second front flyleaf provides a rough terminus ante quem of 1796 ; paper, decoration, etc. also suggest late 18th century.Former shelfmark: "464 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "٤٥٠" also on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in gold-flecked yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite stamped (with gold-painted orange recessed onlays) mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition incorporating chī clouds, compare Déroche class. NSd), pendants and cornerpieces with tooled and gold-painted accents (rosettes, strokes, etc.) as well as elaborate guilloché roll borders built up from a series of s-shaped stamps and defined by gold fillets ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in dark pink and thread and with gold sheed, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, etc. ; subtle repair to fore edge flap.Support: non-European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (mainly vertical, curved, fairly distinct) and irregular chain lines occasionally visible, some inclusions, beige in color, crisp and transluscent though quite sturdy, highly burnished ; added table of contents mainly on European wove paper, well-burnished (burnisher's marks visible) ; partial offset of upper portion of headpiece in margin of incipit facing page (p.21) ; flyleaves in European laid paper.Decoration: Brilliant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Siyer-i Veysî on p.20, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in pink, orange, red and yellow on fields of gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition in gold, pale green, pink, yellow, red, etc. on a gold ground, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with gold and red accents, entire piece set in a well consisting of bands of red with white accents, pink with red accents, and gold interlace ; another illuminated headpiece at opening of second part of Siyer-i Veysî on p.178 ; still another superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Zeyl-i Nabi on p.320, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold and pink, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition in gold, pale green, pink, orange, etc. on a gold ground, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with gold and red accents, entire piece set in a well consisting of bands of red with white accents, pink with red accents, and heavy gold interlace ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within (poetic passages, etc.) defined by narrow faint gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings, key words and passages, and occasional vocalization rubricated or overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing in conjoined dots ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 34 V(340), ii ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: [Siyer-i Veysî] "جناب پيغمبرى اولمديغنه دليل جليل لا ينتطح فيه عنزان نابفه سيله [؟] تسليت بخش خاطر عمير اولدقلريدر والله تعالى اعلم بحقايق الامور" ; [Zeyl-i Nabi] "اشتماليله اعلاى درجات امتيازده جلو كر قلنمق شيوۀ خفيۀ تقديردن مستبعد دكلدر والله تعالى اعلم"Incipit: [Siyer-i Veysî] "كنون وقتست كزكلك سخن كوى بسوى ذكر پيغمبر نهم روى" ; [Zeyl-i Nabi] "يا رب سحاب فيضى باران ايله اول فيضله كشت كامى ريان ايله ..."Title from opening of added table of contents (p.2).Ms. codex.7. p.320-p.677 : [Zeyl-i Nabi] / Nabi.6. p.318-p.219 : [blank].5. p.178-p.317 : [Siyer-i Veysî, part 2] / Veysî.4. p.177 : [blank].3. p.20-p.176 : [Siyer-i Veysî, part 1] / Veysî.2. p.12-p.19 : [blank].1. p.2-p.11 : [table of contents].Elegant copy of Veysî's (d.1628) work on the sīrah of the Prophet through the battle of Badr in two parts, followed by the continuation (dhayl / zeyl) composed by Nâbî (d.1712). Table of contents on added leaves at opening (pp.2-11). Contribution to the cataloguing from H. Mottaghi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 445Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 17th or even very late 16th century.Former shelfmark: "427 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards faced in purple silk [?] with green straight-grain leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (textile faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in spring green surface-dyed paper ; leather edging silver-stamped with scrollwork / s-shaped motifs ; now sewn in magenta thread, six and four stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover, flyleaves and opening leaf fully detached from remainder of text block, splitting of spine leather, minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persianate) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, mainly pretty indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, quite dense and sturdy though transluscent, well-burnished, beige in color ; flyleaves in European wove paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening consisting of rectangular piece carrying empty gold cartouche flanked by swirling vegetal design (in gold, lavender, red, pink and white) on fields of light blue and gold surounded by heavy border in red and white with gold outline and surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) carrying similar vegetal composition set into a green and gold well or frame and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in light blue ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold bands flanking a red band all outlined in black fillets ; section headings, keywords (author's name, etc.), and text of ḥadīth chrysographed ; a few keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; elegant Turkish hand ; virtually serifless with tilt to the left, many open counters, curvilinear descenders, and some elongation of horizontal strokes ; extensively vocalized (in black ink).Layout: Written mainly in 13 lines per page ; column of written area divided to two columns for text of preface/prologue, elucidation, and epilogue whereas text of headings and ḥadīth fill the column width ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V (10), V+1 (21), ii ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords possibly lost to trimming.Explicit: "عمر اولوب ايرنجه روزقيام سكا والكه صلوة وسلام الحمد لله على التمام والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد خير الانام وعلى آله الكرام واصحابه العظام"Incipit: "ايلدي حق بزي بحمد الله قائل لا اله الا الله"Title from preface (fol.4a).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of one hundred ḥadīth accompanied by paraphrase in Turkish verse by Latîfî (Abdüllatif Çelebî Kastamonulu, d.1582).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 443Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.24a (p.47), composition finished in the first part of Rabīʻ al-Akhīr 1120 [June 1708]. Copied by al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh, that is the renowned Ottoman calligrapher, Seyyid Abdullah of Yedikule (Yedikuleli Seyyid Abdullah Efendi, d.1731), favorite pupil of the celebrated calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698). Signed by the mudhahhib / müzehhip (gilder) in the lower edge of the frame on fol.24a (p.47) in a miniscule hand "ذهبه عبدي شاكر؟ سليمان مذهب شهرياري", seemingly Şakir Süleyman müzehhip Şehriyari.Former shelfmark: "345 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "234" inscribed in pencil on 'title page’.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark green leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns, flyleaves (made endpapers) and interior of envelope flap in red surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers bear large central gold-stamped (recessed onlay) scalloped mandorla , pendants and corner pieces along with tooled and gold-painted rolled guilloché border with gold fillets ; vegetal design within the decorative elements has been accented with red paint and that of the mandorla evokes Déroche class. Nsd 7 ; design carries over to envelope flap ; chevron endbands in red and white have suffered some losses in good condition despite minor abrasion and edge wear though textblock has completely detached, some losses in spine lining and sewing.Support: non-European (early 18th century Persianate?) laid paper with laid lines running horizontally spaced roughly 7-8 laid lines per cm. and some sagging, no chain lines, burnished to glossy, some undissolved fibers ; flyleaves of European laid paper.Decoration: Superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consists of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the title of the work in white surmounted by a w-shaped piece with a network of tīgh and flowers above, all filled with floral design in blue, gold, green, pink, orange, and red ; exquisite illuminated headpiece on fol.3a (p.5) consists of a w-shaped piece with cartouche carrying the section heading and floral decoration in blue, gold, white, pink, green, orange and red surmounted by tīgh in blue with red accents ; illuminated headpiece on fol.4b (p.8) consists of a rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the section heading for the first hadith surmounted by a semicircular piece with tīgh above in blue and red accents all filled with floral decoration in blue, gold, green, white, pink, orange, and red ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes and floral vegetal motifs appear hear and there throughout ; ruled in a frame consisting of gold bands and black fillets ; text rubricated with some sections headings, key words, etc. in red ; main section headings in white. Signed by the illuminator in the lower edge of the frame at close (fol.24a / p.47) "ذهبه عبدي شاكر؟ سليمان مذهب شهرياري"Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; slight tilt to the left ; seriffed with right sloping head-serif on lām of definite article, ṭāʼ, etc. but free-standing alif sans serif ; colophon more ligatured ; main section in headings tawqīʻ.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 2 V (20), II (24), i ; two quinions and a binion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Authorial" and "Scribal," rectangular, reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تسويده بعون الله الملك المنان على يد مترجمه الفقير احمد بن عثمان المدرس باحدى المدارس الثمان في اوائل شهر ربيع الاخر لسنة عشرين ومائة والف كتبه الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير الداعي بدوام الدولة العلية السيد عبد الله"Dedication: Ahmet III (1673-1736), son of Mehmet IV at opening (fol.1b-2a) "السلطان احمد خان بن السلاطان محمد خان".Explicit: "بو بنده كمينه ثنا معتاد لرى ميداذ سخنور يده تهمت خبط وخطا ايله تعيير اولنميه. بيت هركس مر هون بذل مقدور لنكانه دوئ خامه معذور. تاريخ ختام صحت اباد فيلسوف سخن اراى خرد فهم ايدوب ما حصل معنانى ديدى تاريخنى بو تاليفك صحت اباد شفاپيرانى"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين باحسان الى يوم الدين بعد هذا باعث جمع حديث اربعين ..."Title from headpiece on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the commentary of Aḥmad Tāʼib ibn ʻUthmān, known as Osmanzade, on forty hadith.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 391Origin: Culmination with Sultan Abdülmecid I suggests a dating during his reign (i.e. 1839-1861) though bulk of roll (three opening lengths through Sultan Mustafa III, r.1757-1774) likely produced earlier, even during his reign. Final length certainly produced at a different time than the opening lengths with a different paper, narrower written area, wider gold frames, and exclusive use of gold bands (and wreath motifs) and black fillets to set off and join roundels.Binding: Wrapped in a length of layered paper attached to the opening of the roll, covered in spring green silk and red leather tooled in exquisite vegetal design (swirling leaves and flowers set in almond-shaped form) in two contrasting shades of gold (compare design on cover of Isl. Ms. 276) with wide, heavy woven silk ribbon wound to secure it ; narrow wooden dowel is affixed to the inner end of the roll ; roll comprised of four main lengths of paper with additional length lining the interior of the leather wrap ; housed in custom box for protection.Support: European laid paper of two main types, in several lengths glued together ; three opening lengths in a type with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical, i.e. along the length), chain lines spaced 28-31 mm. apart (horizontal, i.e. across the width), and watermark with three points only partially visible, resembling star (compare no.559 dated 1772 in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottman Empire, vol.1) or possibly foolscap or crozier ; final length in type with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, i.e. across the width), chain lines spaced 27-29 mm. apart (vertical, i.e. along the length), and watermark of eagle with wings and legs spread, "G F [A]" below ; all highly sized and burnished.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of scroll, consisting of small rectangular piece with two empty cartouches surmounted by large, elaborate spray of plumes, leaves, floral bouquets and ribbons in varied shades of blue, lavender, pink, red, yellow and green on a stippled gold ground, bordered in bands of pink, blue, white and gold ; interior of leather wrap surrounding the scroll appears just above this headpiece and carries in a rectangular field of stippled gold a composition of similar motifs with large central floral bouquet (in shades of pink, blue, lavender, yellow, etc.) set in a basket with plumes / leaves (in shades of lavender and white) at the four corners, surrounded by pattern of flowers and saz leaves in gold on a light blue ground ; introductory text and field of genealogical diagrams surrounded by gold frame ; names of sultans in opening three lengths of paper appear in roundels bordered in gold bands with outermost red and blue rules, with names of siblings, offspring, etc. in roundels of red and gold rules, all linked by further lines in gold or red ; names in final length of paper bordered in roundels of gold bands and black fillets only, with gold bands linking them ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs in opening lengths of paper ; keywords and dates rubricated throughout.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with effect of words inclining to the right and descending to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in conjoined dots, final or free-standing nūn with point set above or just inside wide, dramatically angled bowl, freely ligatured.Layout: Genealogical diagram (genealogical tree) preceded by introductory text in 21 lines.Incipit: "طبقۀ ملوك عثمانيان بونلرك اجدادى آل سلجوق ايله تركستاندن خروج ايدوب خراسان وعراق وازربيجان وسائر ممالكى مسخر ايدوب يوز يتمش يل اخلاص وعيد الجواز نام مقامده اولوب ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening.Ms. composite roll.Elegant silsilename of the Ottoman sultans through Abdülmecid I (r.1839-1861) in rotulus format (i.e. scroll opening vertically).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 381Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 18th century.Former shelfmark: "177 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather with dark red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in silver-flecked orange paper, hinge and pastedown once covered with pink wove paper ; upper and lower covers block-stamped with gold-painted vegetal design and central mandorla of blue paper, red paper, and green silk covered by gilded leather filigree and surrounded by pendants and cornerpieces as well as tooled border and block-stamped, gilded rectangles above and below, band of red paper, blue paper, and green silk lozenges covered with gilded leather filigree, flanked by tooled borders in gold, and surrounded by tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps in gold ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green, dark blue, and pink thread ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, pest damage, loss areas, and corner damage, large losses in upper pastedown.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; first type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 22 mm. apart, burnished, thin and crisp with watermark of grapes surmounted by a cartouche inscribed with "I R" and a crown motif (see p.184, etc., compare 2384 in Heawood lf. 94, Raison no. 22, p.28, 385 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1727) ; second type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, burnished, thin and crisp with watermark of grapes surmounted by a cartouche inscribed with "GAILLIARDON [?]" and a crown motif (see p.200, etc., compare Raisin no.30 A, pp.28-29, 52, 387 in Velkov, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1749).Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of a rectanglular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by vegetal designs in pink, red, white, and gold on a blue field surmounted by a w-shaped piece filled with vegetal designs in pink, red, white, and gold on a blue field with delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue above, all set in a well of red bands with white crosses, a thick band of geometric interlace, and a thin blue band with white crosses ; additional illuminated headpieces on pages 451, 609, and 932 less elaborate than the initial headpiece and each with scalloped semi-circular piece surmounting similar rectangular piece ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of a thick gold band defined by black fillets, divisions within defined by thin gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords and headings mainly rubricated but also supplied in blue ink (p.154-159), in orange ink (p.438-450), and chrysographed (after p.1218) in certain sections ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas mainly in dark red but supplied in blue ink p.154-159, in orange ink p.438-450, and chrysographed after p.1218).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, and pointing mainly in conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, occasionally divided to two or three columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 63 V (630), IV+1 (639), i ; chiefly quinions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "وبارك لنا فيهم و جعلنا في لاآخرة من مجاوريهم "Incipit: "ابتدى بسم ربى المتعال مالك الملك واهب الامال ..."Title from inscription on added 'title page' (front flyleaf).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Tacüʻt-tevarih, the celebrated history of the Ottomans from their beginnings to the death of Selim I (r.1512-1520) carefully composed by the well-known Ottoman şeyhülislam, statesman and historian, Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d.1599). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Introductory treatise on logic in form of commentary on Porphyry's "Isagoge" (d. 305).According to colophon (f. 7v), copy completed on 26 Cemâziye'l-âhir 1207 AH [February 8, 1793 AD] in the hand of Ahmed Âmidî.Written in naskh script, in one column, 19 lines per page, in blakc rubricated in red. Overlined words.20.8 x 15.2 cm (16.5 x 8.5 cm).Thin cream laid paper. No cover. Water-damaged: folios stuck to each other.MS Turk 33. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Watermarks: Sun; hillock. See Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950), nos. 2610-2616 and no. 3897.Text rubricated; marginal corrections in hand of copyist (same as that of Mich. Isl. Mss. 835,2-4,7-11); pages foliated; "yā kabīkaj" (invocation against bookworms) written on pp. [1] and [5]; vol. has edge title.Date based on that in colophon of Mich. Isl. Ms. 835,6.[10] Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Hidāyat al-sāʼil fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-kāmil, pp. [246-265]; [11] Muḥamamd ibn ʻAlī al-Khayrī al-Jabartī ibn Zurayq, al-Nashr al-muṭayyab fī al-ʻamal bi-al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [266-282].[6] Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī, Hādhihi risālat Muṣṭafá al-muwaqqit fī aʻmāl al-aṣṭurlāb, pp. [104-182]; [7] Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī, Hâzâ risale-i-muaddel el-nahār, pp. [188-208]; [8] Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī, Hâzâ risale-i-zāt el-kürsî, pp. [210-237]; [9] Ḥusayn ibn Khalīl Qrlfj Zādah, Risālat al-rubʻ al-mujayyab, pp. [238-244];Pp. [6-17]. Bound with: [2] Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī, Risālat al-muqanṭarah, pp. [18-33]; [3] Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī, Risale-i-rubʻ el-mucayab, pp. [36-75]; [4] Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Murrī, Risālah mulakhkhaṣah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-ālah al-rusūm al-mujannaḥah, pp. [78-95]; [5] Two faṣls on the use of the astrolabe, pp. [97-100];Treatise on the calendar.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 393Origin: As appears at close of final table on p.241, transcription of that section completed 1267 [1850 or 51]. Other sections continuing the tables likely date from around the same time, though later additions (by subsequent readers / owners) also appear (see final entry on p.129 dating to 1277 [1861]). Many sections including the opening matter, opening of the chronological and other tables, khātimah, etc. appear to date much earlier, likely the late 17th century given that the chronological matter for these sections ends around 1080 [1669 or 70] (see p.95).Former shelfmark: "518 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red / maroon leather ; Type III binding (without flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings and flyleaves in orange surface-dyed European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi) with gold-painted accents and border ; sewn in yellow thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and purple, head and tail damaged (core nearly exposed) ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, lower cover detaching at split joint, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types ; main type with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32-33 mm. apart (horizontal) and three crescents watermark (100 mm. long perpendicular to chains, see p.18, 60, etc.), thick, sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished ; later sections (pp.97-140, 147-208, 215-226, 238 to close) on other papers including one with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (vertical) and watermarks of crescent with face in profile in shield and "A" below (see p.98, 100, etc.) and eagle with "GFA" below (see p.102, 114, etc.) also "A G" countermark (see p.150) and double-headed eagle (see p.244, 252, etc.) ; flyleaves and added leaves on still two other papers, one with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27-30 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star-crescent watermark (71 mm. tall parallel to chains, see p.4, 8, etc.), sturdy and beige in color, the other with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 16-33 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of three circles with crown above, cross in top circle (see p.6, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece at opening on p.18 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold, pink, lavender, red, and white on grounds of gold and dark blue, surmounted by scalloped dome filled with swirling floral vegetal composition in gold, pink, lavender, red, white and yellow on grounds of dark blue and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, entire piece set in a well of lavender defined by "gold" bands ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of narrow bronze colored band defined by black fillets with outermost red rule, divisions within (for tables) in red rules, in final sections red rules only ; keywords and some headings rubricated, others in blue, green or orange ; textual dividers in the form of gold and red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant hands (hand changes at p.96) ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes ; headings in many of the tables in a large, elegant naskh.Layout: Written in 19-21 or 29 lines per page (opening matter, i.e. preface and introduction, and khātimah), with tables (جداول) divided to roughly 8-21 rows (in roughly 26-29 lines) and two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), 4 V(48), VI (60), V (70), 2 VI(94), V (104), VI (116), V (126), i ; mainly quinions with a few senions ; several leaves among the chronological tables ruled but left partially or entirely blank (see pp.138-140, pp.148-149, pp.157-166, etc. ); catchwords present ; foliation (begins with table on p.30) in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and added leaves at opening).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب سنه ١٢۶۷"Incipit: "حمد وثنا وشكر بى انتها اول مبدأ اول جل وعلايه كه فهرست غرايب كاينات وفذلكۀ عجايب واقعات اولان اوراق پر اثمار توارخى ... وبعد چون فن جليل القدر تاريخده فضل وشرف مقرر ... در كتابه وضع تقويم كيفيتى تعليم ومنشأ تواريخى تفهيمده ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1) and from closing matter (p.211).Ms. composite codex.Elegant composite copy of Kâtip Çelebi's collection of chronological tables (through 1059 [1649]) intended as an index to his Fadhlakat al-tawārīkh [فذلكة التواريخ , or Fezleke], with continuation. The chronological tables are preceded by an introduction, followed by tables of the various pre-Islamic (see p.141) and Islamic (see pp.142-147) dynasties, and tables for the Ottoman sultans (see pp.150-156), Şeyhülislam (pp.167-175), Grand Viziers (pp.180-193), etc. and closing matter (pp.209-211). Final entry in the chronological tables is for the year 1277 [1861] with the death of Sultan Abdülmecid I and ascension of Sultan Abdülaziz I (see p.129), though the tables are ruled and headed through the year 1321 [1903-4] (see p.137).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 834Origin: Pertains to the Jalālī year 1235 [1856-1857] suggesting a date of transcription around this time ; watermarks consistent with such a dating. Illuminated heading on opening horiscope suggests transcription in Istanbul.Binding: Limp cover in heavy coated and textured paper, surface-dyed a pale yellow and embossed with pattern of plumes, scrolls, and floral motifs ; sewn in spring green and dark blue thread, six stations, through paper cover ; overall in fair condition with staining and abrasion ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of lion rampant guardant (see p.2, 8, 28, etc.) and initials "NR" in arms (see p.4, 6, 26, etc.) very similar to Eineder no.1018 dated 1806 but with "NR" rather than "AB" ; creamy buff in color (yellowish hue), crisp and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Written area and tables throughout defined by gold bands and black lines ; heading of opening horiscope diagram chrysographed "لع يل ١٢٧٢ سال عالم بأفق دار السلطنه العلية العثمانيه" ; many headings and keywords / symbols rubricated.Script: Mainly naskh and naskh with elements of ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hands ; elegant naskh employed for most headings, some entries and some annotations ; more compact naskh with elements of ruqʻah used for other annotations and some headings ; forms resembling siyakat letterforms used in table entries ; elucidation of symbols employed entered on opening page (p.1) above and alongside the horiscope diagram.Layout: Written area divided to accommodate tables of 14 columns and 16 rows (with 15 of the rows carrying two lines each corresponding to the days of the month), headed by outlines of square charts divided to 12 (4 central squares and 8 triangles corresponding to the celestial houses) ; prickings for ruling the tables evident in the outer and lower margins.Collation: VII (14) ; single septenion ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Careful copy of an astronomical almanac (natījah / rūznāmah / ephemeris) for the Jalālī year 1235 (indicated as the 778th, see p.2) preceded by horiscope (ṭāliʻ) for the year (given in the corresponding Hijrī / Rūmī value, 1272, see p.1). Presumably observed at Istanbul. Corresponding Hijrī, Rūmī, old Yazdagardī and Coptic calendars dates are given. Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1051Origin: As appears in colophon at close on p.630, Tarih-i Fezleke copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan, known as Miftāḥīzādah (Miftahizade Mustafa b. Hasan) with transcription completed in Dār al-Salṭanah al-Qusṭanṭanīyah (Istanbul) mid-Ṣafar 1117 [June 1705]. As appears in colophon at close on margins of p.313 (fol.١٤٩ a) , Tuhfetü'l-kibar also copied by Miftahizade Mustafa b. Hasan with transcription completed in Istanbul end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1117 [March 1706]. Transcript of Mizanü'l-hak ends abruptly and lacks colophon (see p.388), though hand suggests that it was also entered by Miftahizade Mustafa b. Hasan, likely just after the transcription of Tuhfetü'l-kibar.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (once with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in mint green, gold- and silver-flecked paper, made endpapers / flyleaves in marbled paper (chiefly in red, green and blue) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (recessed onlays), gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, symmetrical but without chi clouds) and pendants, as well as tooled and gold-painted cornerpieces and chain borders (series of s-shaped stamps) ; edges of text block tinted yellow ; primaries sewn through textile spine lining, reversed leather glued on top, lapped upon lower cover ; sewn in dark rose thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and sage green ; overall in fair condition with flap lost, boards delaminating, lifting and losses of leather, minor pest damage, etc. ; subtle repairs at board edges (tail and head).Support: European laid paper with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of three hats or caps (tre cappelli, see pp.16, 22, 32, 40, 622, etc.), cream in color, quite sturdy, extremely well-burnished to glossy ; some cockling, minor moisture damage toward close of codex ; added table of contents on another European paper of "raisin" type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (vertical) and watermarks of names (see p.6, etc.) and grapes (raisin) with crown and name "A. GALLIARD [?]" above (see p.2, 8, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text (on p.14, following added table of contents), consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying section heading in red "في سنة الف" flanked by swirling floral motifs on dark blue (reminiscent of lapis) and gold grounds, surmounted by a scalloped w-shaped piece with swirling floral vegetal motifs in shades of pink, light blue, orange, red and yellow on grounds of gold and dark blue, all set in a well of heavy gold interlace, narrow gold bands and bands of blue and red with white crosses and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in dark blue with red accents ; incipit and facing pages surrounded by heavy gold frame defined by narrower gold band, black fillets and outermost red fillet, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower gold frame defined by black fillets ; headings and keywords rubricated ; some overlining of other keywords in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with effect of words gently descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, some sweeping descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final and free-standing nūn with an angled bowl, not exceptionally wide with point nearly assimilated.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; additional texts glossed in margins in varying number of lines on the diagonal on certain pages ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), 31 V (316), i ; exclusively quinions with ternion for added table of contents for entire codex ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, distinct for each of the two texts glossed on the margins ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Tarih-i Fezleke] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم هذا الكتاب المستطاب بعون الله الملك القديم الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد مصطفى بن حسن الشهير بمفتاحى زاده فى بلدۀ دار السلطنة القسطنطنية فى اواسط شهر صفر الخير لسنه سبع عشره ومايه والف م" ; [Tuhfetü'l-kibar] "Scribal," reads "تم هذا الكتاب بعون الله الملك القديم الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد مصطفى بن حسن الشهير بمفتاحى زاده فى بلدۀ دار السلطنة القسطنطنية فى اواخر شهر ذالقعدۀ شريفه لسنه سبع عشره ومايه والف"Explicit: [Tarih-i Fezleke] "مقدما حسن اغايه حيله ايدن حلواجى محمد قونيه ده قتل واخذ اولمغين" ; [Tuhfetü'l-kibar] "برر برر اجرا ايلمك اسبابه بولندن مباشرتك شرطى در الله تعالى ميسر ايليه امين" ; [Mizanü'l-hak] "وبو كه كشف الظنون عن اسامى الكتب والفنون نامى قونلوب سابقا مسوده سن"Incipit: [Tarih-i Fezleke] "سنۀ مزبوره محرمنك غره سى كه يوم السبت در هجرت نبويه نك اوجيوز اللى درت بيك درتيوز طقسان طقوزنجى كونى اولوب ..." ; [Tuhfetü'l-kibar] "ابتداء تاريخ تحفة الكبار سرنامۀ داتسان جهان ستان حمد وسپاس خداوند زمين وزمان اولمق ...وبعد چون تاريخ هجرة نبويه بيك اللى بش ساله ايروب كلام معجز اثار نبويه ما صدقى اولان فتوحاة اسلاميه دن كريد فتحى ظهور ايلدى ... اسمنه تحفة الكبار فى اسفار البحار ديدى ..." ; [Mizanü'l-hak] "الحمد لله الذي جعل العقل حجة في خلقه وايد الشرع به فيما يفرق بين الباطل وحقه ... وبعد اول آفرينش دن برو ميان ارباب دانشده عقل ايله نقل توامان ومعقول ومنقول فرسى رهان ايدوكى ... اكا بناء نزاع اولنان مسئله ده طريق برهانى بيان ايچون برايكى سطر تسويد اولنوب ميزان الحق فى اختيار الاحق دينلدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from edge title and inscription on 'title page' for added table of contents (p.1).Ms. codex.6. p.314-p.388 (margins) : Mizanü'l-hak fî ihtiyari'l-ahak / Kâtip Çelebi.5. p.65-p.313 (margins) : Tuhfetü'l-kibar fi esfari'l-bihar / Kâtip Çelebi.4. p.64 (margins) : Fihris-i Kitab-i Tuhfetü'l-kibar.3. p.62-p.63 (margins) : [four signed favorable blurbs (taqrīẓ)].2. p.13-p.630 : Tarih-i Fezleke / Kâtip Çelebi.1. p.1-p.12 : [table of contents].Elegant volume carrying three works by the renowned Ottoman scholar Kâtip Çelebi (d.1657), preceded by a table of contents for all three. In the main written area appears his Tarih-i Fezleke, a chronicle of Ottoman history addressing the years 1000 to 1065 (1591 to 1654-5). Two additional works are glossed with deliberate placement on the margins: first his Tuhfetü'l-kibar fi esfari'l-bihar, a history of Ottoman naval engagements through 1067 (1656) preceded by four signed favorable blurbs (taqrīẓ) and contents listing (fihris) and finally Mizanü'l-hak fî ihtiyari'l-ahak, his final work, addressing controversial questions of doctrine or practice with proposed solutions and concluding with an autobiographical account of his life and works (this copy incomplete).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 382Origin: As appears in colophon on p.625, copied by ʻAbd Allāh al-Shahrī [?] ibn Muḥammad (Abdullah eş-Şehri bin Mehmet) with transcription completed 2 [?] Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1181 [ca. 20 April 1768].Former shelfmark: "457 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards faced in dark maroon and framed in dark brown leather (extending to edges/turn-ins, leather faced and edged framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; board linings (doublures) in elegant marbled paper (in black, blue, dark green and red) ; upper and lower covers carry lozenge-shaped central ornament and pendants filled with gold-tooled or incised and gold-filled vegetal composition on dark brown recessed onlays, along with tooled borders in gold ; now sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and light blue, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, spine slant (slightly cocked), etc. ; repairs to flap in red leather, small repair at head of fore edge flap in red leather, spine rebacked in red leather, and hinges rehinged.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (mainly vertical, somewhat distinct, curved) and irregular, single chain lines occasionally visible (mainly horizontal), cloudy formation, sturdy, beige in color, well-burnished ; some staining ; small repairs (fills).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold with red and green accents, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition mainly in gold, with red, green, and pink accents on fields of gold and dark blue, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, entire piece set in a well consisting of bands of pink with red accents, light blue with dark blue accents, and gold interlace ; another illuminated headpiece (dome) at opening of second section on p.294 ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame defined by black fillets, divisions within (poetic passages, etc.) defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, compact Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly serifed with small teardrop head-serifs on occasional ascender (lām, ṭāʼ even alif) , slight effect of tilt to the left, many closed counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in conjoined dots or strokes, free assimilation of letters.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 31 V(310), II (314) ; almost exclusively quinions followed by a binion ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, often cut off ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد وقع الفراغ عن يد الضعيف عبد الله الشهرى بن محمد غفر الله ذنوبهما ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات لسنه ۱۱۸۱ ذا الحجه فى يوم ٢ [؟] تم"Explicit: "وهدايت صمدانيه سن بدرقۀ طريق ايليه آمين بحرمة الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله على الاتمام والصلوة والسلام على نبيۀ سيد الانام وعلى اله واصحابه الكرام ومن تبعهم باحسان الى يوم القيام"Incipit: "يا رب بو رياض ايچره زلال كرمكله بو تازه قلم اشلمه سن بارور ايله"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the official Ottoman history covering the years 1157-1165 (1744-1752) composed by official historiographer (vak'anüvîs / vakanüvîs), Süleymân İzzî (d.1755).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 372Origin: As appears in colophon on p.60, transcription [and composition?] completed in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1021 [December 1612 or January 1613].Former shelfmark: "377 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf ; "٥" on spine label.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures also in a dark red leather with elegant gold-tooled central ornament of interlace, roughly diamond shaped with pendants, along with gold-tooled border ; hinges now in purple, gold-flecked paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi) with pendants and tooled border (also in gold) ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; in fair condition with lifting and losses of leather (particularly at upper board), delamination of boards, staining, etc. ; repairs to spine, fore edge flap, board edges, etc. in black and red leathers.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, fairly indistinct) and rare chain lines visible, sturdy and well-burnished, medium cream in color ; many of the bifolia guarded ; flyleaves in European laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 27 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of figure holding scepter (other hand at waist), sturdy and well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of large, wide rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by gold pendants overlaid with delicate gold arabesques incorporating chi clouds and floral accents (in white, pink, red, light blue, turquoise, etc.) on grounds of blue (cobalt) and gold, surmounted by a wide, scalloped w-shaped piece filled with similar arabesques and floral motifs on grounds of gold and blue, all set in a well / bordered in narrow bands of light blue with dark blue crosses and dark pink with red crosses flanking a band of heavy gold interlace ; written area throughout surrounded by gold frame ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red ; occasional keywords and headings rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; exquisite hand in a medium line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in conjoined or distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 3 V(30), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present but often obscured ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal [?]", triangular, reads, "تمت الرساله بعون الله تعالى فى سنه احدى وعشرين والف فى شهر ذى القعده"Explicit: "اى برادر عاشق بونك چاره سى بر شيخ مرشد صحبتنده والمقدر هج مكسه صحبتندن محروم كتدوكى يوقدر مكر كه بيكده برى اوله ان شاء الله تعالى"Incipit: "سنريهم آياتنا فى الآفاق وفى انفسهم حتى يتبين لهم انه الحق بل و اكآه اولكم آفاقده نشانلر واردر سنك نفسكده داخى واردر پس هر كمسه كه عالمك نشانلرن كندو نفسنده بولدى اللهى بلدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a brief treatise on Ṣufism.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 820Origin: As appears in colophon on p.326, copied by Osman Zeki (ʻUthmān Zakī) with transcription completed 18 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1279 [ca. 6 June 1863]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.326) composition completed 1180 [1766 or 7].Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in bright yellow surface-dyed coated paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted border and corner accents ; sewn in red thread, two stations, many broken ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, staining, detached at spine (bulk of the textblock is loose), etc.Support: European laid paper with 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of an eagle (p.12, etc.) and lion in shield / arms (see p.10, etc.), beige in color, sturdy though crisp, heavily burnished.Decoration: Most keywords and headings rubricated, others in blue ink ; written area of incipit and facing page (pp.14-15) surrounded by a series of red and blue rules, elsewhere written area surrounded by red rule-border ; numerous line diagrams and tables mainly in red ink (see p.45, 48, 49, 52, 151-2, 179, 184-6, 191, 267-8, 275, 311, and 325) ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words inclining to the right and descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), 16 V(166), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; final three leaves ruled but left blank ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins at opening of table of contents) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (referenced in cataloguing).Dedication: As appears in opening matter on p.15 (and in added 'title page' inscription preceding table of contents on p.1), translation executed for Sultan Mustafa III (r.1757-1774).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "بو تاريخ تمام ترجمه ١١٨٠" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "حرره الفقير السيد عثمان زكى من تلاميذ بكرى عبد الرحمن افندى غفر عنه البار سنه تاسع وسبعين ومائتين والف شهر ذى الحجه يوم ثامن عشر تمت كتاب"Explicit: "درجه ودقيقه سنده واقع اولمشدر پس عون عنايت ربانى وتوفيق سعادت رفيق سبحانى ايله بو تحفۀ شريفك ترجمه سى رسيده حسن ختام اولمغله تبركا تيمنا در حال اخذ ارتفاع النوب زائچۀ اتمام كشيده وتسطيره قلندى الحمد لله على الاتمام والصلوة والسلام على خير الانام واله وصحبه الكرام ايليه رب الانام بادشهى مستدام كلدى بو تاريخ تمام ترجمه ١١٨٠"Incipit: "حمد سپاس بيحد وقياس اول مالك الملك على الاطلاق وفياض كلشن سراى انفس وافاق تعالى شانه عن الفهم والادراك ... پس ذكراتى تحفۀ لطيف نك مؤلفى اولان نهال حديقۀ علم وعرفان وثمره شجره واتقان وعليشاه ابن قاسم خوارزمى رحمة الله عليه علم حساب ونجومده ممتاز الامثال اولمغله ... فن مذبورده مفصل ومشروح بر نسخۀ بينظر جمع وتعبيه واشجار واثمار اسميله تسميه ايدوب ... ایچون لسان تركى اوزره ترجمه سنه بو عبد العزيز كم بضاعه يى مأمور بيورملريله ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy of Subhizade Hekîmbaşı Abdülaziz Efendî's (d.1783) Turkish rendering of the astrological treatise, Ashjār va as̲mār or S̲amarah-i shajarah-i nujūm, by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī Shāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Khuvārizmī al-Bukhārī. Table of contents at opening (pp.2-11).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 425Origin: As appears in colophon on p.345, copied by Hacı Süleyman ( الحاج سليمان / al-Ḥājj Sulaymān ) with transcription completed 8 Ṣafar 1188 [April 1774]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon on pp.344-345, composition completed 2 Ṣafar 1094 [January 1683].Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures red-brown leather, lower hinge in block-printed paper (floral motifs in blue, red and yellow) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (gold-painted recessed onlays) central lozenge-shaped ornament (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 5) and pendants, along with gold-painted accents and tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; doublures carry gold-flecked outline of exterior ornament ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream (or pale yellow) and dark brown, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with some lifting and losses of leather, abrasion, staining, spine slant (slightly cocked), etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat distinct, curved) and occasional chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, beige in color ; flyleaves in pale lavender, silver-flecked European paper (with three hats / tre cappelli watermark).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents in pink and gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece with swirling floral motifs (in pink and gold), surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) with floral motifs in red and gold, all set in a well of gold bands ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame consisting of gold bands and black and red fillets ; elsewhere written area surrounded by red-rule border ; textual dividers in the form of gold and red discs ; keywords rubricated.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on lām, effect of tilt to the left, mainly open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 16 V(160), VI+1 (173), i ; almost exclusively quinions with a final senion ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes inner flyleaf at opening).Dedication: As appears in opening matter on p.5, likely composed for the grand vezir Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa (d.1683).Colophon: "Authorial," reads "بو نسخۀ زينا وترجمۀ رعنا [؟] قلم مترجم عبد فقير ايله بيك طقسان درت صفر الخيرينك ايكنجى سبت كونى تمام اولدى وانا الفقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير الى رحمه مولاه الغنى القدير محمد بن محمد الشهير بردوسى زاده بعونه تعالى" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "بو كتاب عنبرين نقابك كتابتى نسخۀ مؤلفدن تحرير اولديغى نى محرر مذكور اشارت ايتمكله صحيح نسخه اولمغه بو نبذۀ پر تقصير الحاج سليمان اشبو كتاب مستطابى تكميل ايدرمكى منظورى اولان مؤمنين بو فقيرى ومترجم ... دعا ايله يادايده لر تم في ۸ ص سنه ١١٨٨"Explicit: "ايدر كه ذكر اوتان روايت بو يايده اولان مسموعا نمرك الله اعلم احسنيدر احسنى لفظى ايله ترجمه پايانه ايردى فلله الحمد والمنه ... بو نسخۀ ..."Incipit: "حمد بى غايه وثناى بى نهايه اول ذات بيچونه اولسونكه احكام شرع قويمى محكم كتابى ايله ... مترجم كتاب عنبرين نقاب محمد بن محمد الشهير برودوسى زاده ايدركه چونكه دستور اسمان بايه وصاحب خورشيد سايه مسند فروزكار فرمانى ... اعنى وزير مصطفى پاشا دام غروفشا ... بر نيچه اموردن استفسار ايلدكده اما رحمه الله تعالى حالاميان علماده خراج ابى يوسف عنوانيله معروف ومشهور اولان كتابى تأليف بيورمشلر ايدى ديوب كتاب مذكور محاسننى شرح وبيان ايلمشدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Turkish rendering by Rodosîzade Mehmet bin Mehmet (d.1701) of Abū Yūsuf's (d.798) treatise on the kharāj, or land tax, written for Hārūn al-Rashīd (ca. 763-809).
Two Ottoman Turkish translations of Persian poems, copied in the same hand. The first is the Gulistān of Saʻdī and the second is the Pandnamāh of ʻAṭṭār.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 825Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; circumstances of composition, paper, etc. suggest late 19th century (see p.88 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries").Binding: Boards faced in a streaked or veined paper resembling effect of tree marbling (tree calf, marble calf, marbled leather), mainly in dark blue, with printed 'waste' visible beneath and red leather over spine ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; paper labels on spine ; sewn in white thread, four stations ; overall in quite poor condition with much abrasion, staining, losses of paper and board, lifting of leather, detached at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of crescent (with human profile) in shield (see p.10, 11, etc.) and "Andrea Galvani" (see p.6, etc. and compare nos.1159 and 1161 dated 1871 and 1874 respectively in Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, vol.1 as well as p.89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries"), cream in color, quite thick and well-burnished ; minor pest damage, some moisture damage (tide lines and staining).Decoration: Keywords, table headings and numerals rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-border, table divisions also in red rules.Script: Naskh approaching ruqʻah ; clear, compact Egyptian [?] hand ; serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters.Layout: Opening matter (pp.2-4) mainly in 28 and 31 lines per page, followed by several pages of sample calculations (pp.4-9), then the tables of varying dimensions.Collation: 3 V(30) ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "محفوظ زحل ... مح مشترى ... مح مريخ ... محفوظ زهره ... محفوظ عطارد ... تم بعناية الله وتوفيقه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي خلق العرش والكرسى والاكوان والصلاة والسلام على النبى المبعوث في اخر الزمان ... اما بعد عرفاى اولى الابصار ذوى الاستبصاره معلوم اوله كه علم حساب علوم جزئيه نك اشرفى اولمغله عند المحاسبين مشهور ومتعارف اولان رصد جديد قسينى نك زبان افرنجيدن لسان تركى يه ترجمه سنه فضيلتلو خليفه زاده اسماعيل افندى موفق الوب لكن بو انه قدر تسهيلنه ... بو قليل البضاعه طوراق باشا زاده مير ابراهيم الاستانبولى جعل الله التقوى زاده نك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the set of astronomical tables for the period beginning with the opening of the year 1237 [September 1821] and concluding with Shawwāl 1240 [May-June 1825] (see opening matter on p.2) and covering a large geographical area, executed by Durak Paşazade Mir İbrahim el-İstanbulî from the translation from French to Turkish by Halîfezâde İsmail Çınarî of the tables by César-François Cassini de Thury (d.1784).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 672Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label "IL 67" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, though now lost) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pink surface-dyed laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped (with orange recessed onlays) and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi type) and pendants with gold-painted strokes and rosette stamp accents , along with gold-painted border in a series of s-shaped stamps flanked by gold fillets ; sewn in dark blue or black and dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, some damage ; overall in fair condition with loss of flap, some abrasion and staining, textile (likely linen) repair to spine, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) with crown above (p.68, etc.) and names with date (possibly 1756 [?], see p.69, etc.), medium cream in color, thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; another type with 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of scrollwork with lion and "F A" below (see p.624, etc.).Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.2 consisting of narrow rectangular piece carrying the basmalah flanked by gilt swirling vegetal pattern surmounted by larger rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents (in white, red and gold on fields of red and blue) surmounted by a remarkable w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in white, green, red, and black on a gold ground along with inset dome carrying painting depicting the Prophet's mosque at Medina (al-Masjid al-Nabawī) in white, blue, and grey on a pink ground with sky and mountain in background (in shades of blue and grey) ; w-shaped piece flanked by vegetal pieces in blue and orange-red and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in a dark pink and blue ; entire headpiece set into a series of elaborate well borders consisting of a colored band (blue, light pink, dark yellow, dark pink to red, and green) with a series of crosses in a contrasting color ; written area surrounded by gold frame ; textual dividers in the form of gold and red discs ; keywords and text being commented upon overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 35 V(350), III (356) ; almost exclusively quinions ; fol.119b (p.236) and fol.120a (p.237) left blank (perhaps intended for some never-completed depiction of the tombs of the Prophet, Abū Bakr and ʻUmar) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (mistakenly begins anew on p.239 after lacunae) ; quire numbering in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, appears often on the verso of the final leaf of the quire ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between p.3 and p.4 and drops ten pages followed p.679 with p.670).Colophon: " تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب استانبولده يكى والده سلطان جامع شريفنده پنچره ديبنده امت محمد وعظ نصيحت ايدن محدث مفسر شيخ اعمى داود زاده محمد افندى مرحومك تاليف ايلدوكى دلائل الخيرات شرحيدر كتابك اسمى بودر كتاب توفيق موفق الخيرات لنيل البركات في خدمت منبع السعادات ديو تسميه اولنمشدر رضاء الله فاتحه"Explicit: "رب العالمين اويله الله عظيم الشانكه جمله عالم لرك [عالملرك] موجودى ومربيسى ومالك متصرفيدر"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي صلى بنفسه على النبي عليه اكمل الصلوة والتسليم ... اما بعد حق سبحانه وتعالى حضرتلرى نوع انسانى جملدن مكرم وعقل فهم ادراكى تفهيم وعلمله جملدن ومفخم قره ودرياده بعيديرلره كتمده كندينى واحمال كتورمكه بنكلر احسانيله معظم وانواع طيبات ومستلذات انعاملريله متنعم قلديغنه سر حكمت كندويى توحيد واصناف عبادت ايله قوللق اولدغنى ... بو كتابه توفيق موفق الخيرات لنيل البركات في خذمت منبع السعادات ديو تسميه اولندى ..."Title from opening (recto of leaf carrying p.4) and colophon (p.699).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the commentary by Kara Davutzade Rumi Mehmet b. Ahmet Efendi (d.1756) upon Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, al-Jazūlī’s (d.1465) celebrated collection of prayers for the Prophet.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 394Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "495 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in pale pink laid paper, flyleaves surface-dyed mint green ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted corner accents (mainly rosettes) and border (guilloché roll flanked by gold fillets) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and brown, fairly good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor staining, etc.Support: European laid paper with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of three stylized top hats with feathers (see p.6, 10, 170, etc. and compare Heawood 2594, Venice 1831 and Eineder 709, Venice 1814) and "C + B" (see p. 2, 168, etc.), quite sturdy and well-burnished, cream in color ; minor foxing.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece carrying the basmalah surmounted by scalloped dome filled with floral vegetal design in gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) also in gold with entire piece set in a well of gold ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; keywords (including catchwords) and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, mainly open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 8 V(80), III (86), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present (rubricated) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "شاعر شرمى جلبى ميدان اشمش راميلردن اولوب جكدوكى مرتبه رميه قادراتجى ايدى رحمه الله عليه نقاش زاده اسمعيل تازه نوجوان اولوب تيراندازيره مسلم وممتاز ايدى خاتمة رساله"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد الذى فضل الرمى على سائر الاسلحة اجمعين وامر بالرمى لكل كبير وصغير من المؤمنين ... وبعد بو فقير پر تقصير عبد الله الكاتب بجامع مرحومه ومغفور بها والده سلطان طاب ثراها بو رسالۀ سكزباب اوزره تزيين وتنميق ايليوب تذكرۀ رمات تسميه ايلدم ..."Title from opening matter (p.2).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the work on archery by Abdullah el-Kâtip (of the Valide Sultan Camii) with descriptions of archery grounds in Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa, etc. as well as biographical notices for distinguished archers.
On writing (inshāʼ). It begins with an Arabic-Ottoman glossary of terms used in writing official and unofficial letters (f. 1v-3r), followed by a tutorial on writing letters. The following types of letter are included: from inferiors to superiors (f. 10v-14r), letters home (f. 14v-17r), from a child to his grandfather (f. 17v-19v), from a father to a son (f. 20r-22r), from a son to his mother (f. 22v-24v), from a mother to her child (f. 25r-26v), petition addressing the Sultan (f. 27r-28r), an emancipation certificate (f. 28v-30v), and newspaper writing (f. 31r-34v); a short lesson on basic arithmetic follows (f. 34v-35r). Two inserts laid in: a telegraph receipt, and a sheet in nastaʻliq shikastah about accounting in Persian.
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.