Abstract: Contains two works on alchemy.Binding note: Half-leather binding with flap, rubbed.Contents: 1. fol. 1a-60b: Mecmuat ül-mücerrebat min ül-kâf. Comprises 8 chapters, each including several alchemic recipes.Contents: 2. fol. 61b-70a: A treatise inspired by alchemic passages found in the works of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, al-Ghazālī, Sulṭān al-Ẓāhir Baybars, and the Mamlūk Sulṭān Barqūq. First 6 fol. are in Arabic, the remainder in Ottoman Turkish.Ms. codex.Physical description: 16-17 lines per page; written in naskhī and taʻlīq scripts in black on white glazed paper. Captions in red.
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.
Abstract: A collection of works in Sufism. The texts are in different hands and of different dates; two of them were copied by, and all would appear to have been put together by Mehmet Nuri to keep in the Kaderi zaviye (see statement of vakıf below).Binding note: Half leather binding with envelope flap. Marbled paper on covers and the envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, fore edge flap and around edges of covers. Endleaves in orange paper. Lining to the envelope flap in green paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown fabric.Contents: 1. fol. 1b-59a: Risale-yi Nuriye / Mehmet Tahir Efendi.Contents: 2. fol. 59b-61a: Risale / Ibn al-ʻArabī.Contents: 3. fol. 61b-66b: Risale-yi meratib-i nefisContents: 4. fol. 67b-79b: Risale-yi sırr ül-devran / Abdülkadir ibn Abdullah el-Tursi.Contents: 5. fol. 80a-92b: Delil-i büdela / Kaygusuz Abdal.Contents: 6. fol.94a: DuaContents: 7. fol. 94b-95b: ZikirContents: 8. fol. 96a-96b: DuasContents: 9. fol. 97a: a recipe.Ms. composite codex.Title from fol. 1a.Two of the works are dated: text 3 is dated 21 Muḥarram 1224 (1809) -- colophon (fol. 66b); text 4 is dated Shaʻbān 1311 (1894) and was copied by Mehmet Nuri el-Kadiri (the scribe of the vakıf statement on fol. 1a) -- colophon (fol. 79b). Text 2 is also in his hand.All texts are written inside a single-line frame in red ink. Texts 1, 3 and 5 are written in small naskh in black ink with use of red and have 16-19 lines per page. Texts 2 and 4, written by Mehmet Nuri, are written in a casual, medium small nastaʾlīq in black ink with use of red and green. Fol. 1b-2a have a wide gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, with a large gold leaf head piece decorated with purple and blue watercolors on fol. 1b. Text 3 is decorated with red and green watercolors, used for headings and breaks, and sections of the text are written inside a number of circles outlined in red and finished with gold leaf. Most texts have catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Different glazed European paper.
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. 376Origin: As appears in colophon on p.460, copied from the sound copy in the possession of Şeyhülislam Ahmet Ârif Hikmet Bey Efendi ( احمد عارف حكمت بك افندى , d.1859, son of İbrahim İsmet Bey Efendi) by the son of (Necl) Meşrepzade [Meşrebzade] Ali Raik ( نجل مشرب زاده على رائق / Najl Mashrabʻzādah ʻAlī Rāʼiq) with transcription completed 3 Ṣafar 1264 [January 1848].Accompanying materials: Piece of yellow-tinted European laid paper carrying a sample of calligraphy in naskh (nesih) executed by Mustafa known as Bektaş Ağazade (مصطفى الشهير ببكتاش اغا زاده) found between pp.272-273.Former shelfmark: "357 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2).Binding: Pasteboards covered in green leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in gold-flecked pink 'marbled' paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite recessed stamped (with gold-painted recessed onlays) mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. NSd) and pendants with tooled rosette and gold-painted accents, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on flap ; sewn in pink and yellow (from p.240) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather, etc.Support: European wove paper, light brown in color, highly sized and burnished, quite crisp though sturdy.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in pink, red, yellow, green, etc. on fields of gold, surmounted by scalloped dome or w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition in green, light blue, pink, red, yellow, etc. on a gold ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with gold and red accents, entire piece set in a well of dark pink blended with white ; another brilliant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.12, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in pink, red and yellow on fields of lapis / cobalt and gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal composition in gold, pink, yellow, red, etc. on a lapis / cobalt ground with gold accents, itself surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with gold and red accents, entire piece set in a well of red blended with yellow ; written area surrounded by heavy gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost red rule, divisions within (table of contents, poetic passages, etc.) defined by narrow faint gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings, key words and passages, etc. rubricated or overlined in red ; simple illuminated tailpiece on p.460 consisting of vegetal designs flanking the close of the text.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; small, compact Turkish hand ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 22 V(220), III (226), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد تم تسطير هذا الكتاب المستطاب بعون الله وتوفيق الملك الوهاب من النسخة الصحيحة الشريفة المجلية والنفيسة اللطيفة التى استصحبها ملجاء الفحول والفضلاء ومرجع المخارير والعلماء نسخة مشايخ الاسلام وعمدة العلماء الاعلام اعنى به عصمت بك افندى زاده السيد الحاج احمد عارف حكمت بك افندى ادامه الله تعالى بالعز الابدى وكان الباعث تحرير الكتاب ترغيب وتشويق من ذلك الجناب وانا الفقير الى الاء ربه الخالق نجل مشرب زاده على رائق وكان الفراغ من تهزيز براعة [؟] التحرير في اليوم الثالث من صفر الخير لسنه اربع وستين ومائتين والف من هجرة من برى من امام وخلف تم"Explicit: "اقدام وحصين صعب بن معاذ استحلاصنى [استخلاصنى] نصب العين اهتمام ايتديلر"Incipit: "پیشكاه باركاه كبريا ... و تعظيم تحفۀ حمد وسپاس تقديم اولنوب ... حقير قره چلبي زاده عبد العزيز فقير اولدركه اكر چه اول فرمان فرمانى باركاه رسالت ... الفوائح النبويه في السير المصطفويه نام درج الدرده درج وتنظيم اولنوب ..."Title from opening matter on p.14.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the work on the Prophet attributed to Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi (d.1658). Table of contents at opening.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 385Origin: As appears in colophon on p.144, copied by Mustafa Asım, grandson of Rasihzade (Rasihzade Hafîdi Mustafa Asım), with transcription completed in the first part of Ṣafar 1262 [January 1846].Former shelfmark: "348 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.2).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark red leather with gold-painted central mandorla and pendants ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces along with tooled border in gold ; sewn now in light brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, moisture damage, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to fore edge flap in recycled finished leather (gold-painted and tooled), repair to spine in black leather, fill for onlay of cornerpiece in upper cover from recycled finished leather (stamped), rehinged ; cover likely much earlier than transcript / text block and here recycled.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat distinct, curved) and no chain lines visible, cloudy formation, inclusions visible, crisp and sturdy, highly sized and burnished to glossy, buff colored.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and notabilia rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in conjoined dots ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses ; frame-ruled.Collation: V+1 (11), 6 V(71), I (73) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد الاولين والآخرين وعلى اله واصحابه وعترته الطاهرين وعلى سائر الانبياء والمرسلين وقد وقع الفراغ عن التحرير والتزبير بعون الله الملك القدير راسخ زاده حفيدى مصطفى عاصم غفر الله ذنوبهم وستر عيوبهم فى اوائل صفر الخير المنسلك بسلك سنه اثنى وستين ومائتين بعد الالف"Explicit: "بو مختصر رسالۀ مرآت الصفا بهم نشيدۀ شيرازۀ جمع وتنميق اولمق ... زبان عبد فقير كوهركش رشتۀ اولديغى الفوايح النبويه فى السير المصطفويه نام كتاب صحت نصاب عمدۀ اهتمامنه تحميل اولندى والله يهدى الى سواء السبيل وهو حسبى ونعم الوكيل"Incipit: "پیشكاه باركاه كبريا بيناهيه [بى نهايه] از سرا جلال وتعظيم حمد وسپاس بى قياس تقديم اولنوب ... حقير قره چلبي زاده عبد العزيز فقير اولدركه بو ايام فاضلۀ ... مناقب سعادت عواقب رسل كرام ... فرائد الفوائد مرآت الصفا نام نام درج الدررده اولنوب ..."Title from opening on p.3 and close on p.143.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the work on the sīrah of the Prophet by Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi (d.1658).
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. 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. 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. 371Origin: As appears at close on p.108, transcription completed Jumādá II [?] 1174 [January-February? 1761].Former shelfmark: "425 [?] T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in marbled paper (in light and dark blue, light and dark pink, and dark green) ; upper and lower covers carry lozenge-shaped central ornament filled with gold-tooled vegetal composition, accompanied by tooled rosettes and gold-painted accents as well as guilloché roll border in gold ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in light red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in spring green and pale pink [?], tailband damaged ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, detaching at spine (revealing spine lining in leather with primaries sewn through),etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, fairly distinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, some leaves tinted (brown, yellow, beige, pale pink) and or gold-flecked ; a few bifolia of European laid paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling arabesques and floral motifs (in gold, red, blue, pink, white) around an empty gold cartouche, set in a well of gold bands flanking a band of red and a heavy band of interlace and surmounted by elaborate vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue ; incipit page silver-flecked ; written area throughout bordered in a heavy gold frame defined by black fillets and outermost red rule ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; illuminated tailpiece anchoring text at close on p.108 consisting of swirling floral vegetal composition in gold, pink and red with blue chī clouds and border.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, elongation of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 V(50), III (56), i ; almost exclusively quinions (with final ternion) ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.75-76).Colophon: "ح م سنه ١١٧٤ ج"Explicit: "جخى كلام بونكله انجامه ايروب رساله تمام اولدى حق سبحانه و تعالى جمله مزه حسن خاتمه ميسر ايدوب طريق برهان رضاى رحماندن آيرميه بمنه وكرمه ولطفه"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل العقل حجة في خلقه وايد الشرع به فيما يفرق بين الباطل وحقه ... وبعد اول آفرينشدن برو ميان ارباب وانشده عقل ايله نقل توامان ومعقول ومنقول فرسى رهان ايدكى ... اكه بناء نزاع اولنان مسئله لرده طريق برهانى بيان ايچون ... ورق تسويد اولنوب نامنه ميزان الحق فى اختيار الاحق دينلدى ..."Title from opening matter on pp.2-3.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Kâtip Çelebi's final work (composed in 1067/1656), addressing controversial questions of doctrine or practice with proposed solutions, and closing with an autobiographical account of his life and works (khātimah / hatime, beginning on p.91).