Versified treatise on common Arabic grammar and Arabic and Persian vocabulary in 30 poems. Titles are in Arabic; verses are in Ottoman Turkish with the vocabulary words in Persian and Arabic.
Incomplete copy of an Ottoman Turkish translation of a work on geographical places, plants and animals; ends abruptly at the beginning of "faṣl fī al-buqūl al-ṣighār". Text commissioned by Osman Shah bin İskender Paşa. The first two leaves are in Arabic. Worm damage in the gutter and lower, outer corner, text mostly unaffected. The copy is in several different hands.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 828Origin: As appears in colophon on p.42, transcription of opening work completed 27 Muḥarram 1238 [ca. 14 October 1822]. Transcription of second work and addendum likely completed around the same time.Binding: Pasteboards (very thin, only a few layers) now covered in printed laid paper (in blue-green) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures (board linings) in splendid block-printed paper with floral and fruit motifs (carnations, etc.) in dark blue, red, yellow and green ; sewn in black thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in black and cream, fairly good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with signficant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper, etc.Support: European laid paper of two types ; opening type (appears toward close of volume as well) with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of a bird on a pedestal (see p.6, 16, 20, 28, 30, 31, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; next type with 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 32 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks including crescent (visible in p.54, 58, 62, 64, 86, etc.) and "S" (visible in p.84, 100, etc.).Decoration: Keywords, section headings and symbols rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; mainly one clear, Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots ; incipit page of second work (p.44) in a different hand.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 4 V(40), VI (52), IV (60) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.59-60).Colophon: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت رسالۀ مقنطره سنه ١٢٣٨ فى ٢٨ م يوم الاثنين"Explicit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "سمت قبله يه مطابق اولدى قبله دخى قوس ارتفاعك طرفنه واقع اولدى" ; [Risale-yi ceyb-i afaki] "صويه وارنجه درنلكى سكزبجق زراع اولدى وقس على هذا تمت م"Incipit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "الحمد لله الذى جعل على البحر الاحضر [الاخضر] الفلك قناطير المقطنراة ... وبعد بو افقر عباد الله مصطفى بن على الموقت بالجامع الحاقانى السليمو ... وبو رسالۀ كفاية الوقت لمعرفت الدائر وفضله والسمت برله تسميه ايلدم ..." ; [Risale-yi ceyb-i afaki] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين آلات ارتفاعيه دن ربع الدائرى تصبير ... آلت ارتفاعينك جيب طرفنده اولان دوائر وخطوطك بياننده دير قوس الارتفاع ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work (p.4) and rubricated heading at opening of second work (p.44).Ms. codex.4. p.115-p.117 : Tarik-i eshel-i ceyb-i irtifa.3. p.44-p.114 : Risale-yi ceyb-i âfakî/ Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.2. p.43 : [blank].1. p.4-p.42 : Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.Careful copy of two treatises by Muvakkit Mustafa b. Ali (d.1571), timekeeper in the mosque of Sultan Selim II (r.1566-1574), the first on the use of the almucantar or bridged quadrant (rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt) in 12 bābs and the second on the use of the sine quadrant (rubʻ mujayyab) in 22 bābs (compare his Vafiyetü’l-evkat and Rub-i müceyyeb).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 829Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, both works apparently copied by Hacı Hafız Ömer (al-Ḥājj Ḥāfiẓ ʻUmar) with transcription completed 1232 [1816 or 1817].Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in shades of orange, red, and blue) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some staining, abrasion, moisture damage, spine slant (slightly cocked), warping, etc.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and lion watermark (tail and face visible in p.14, 15, 86, etc. and legs and ground visible in p.10, 20, 110, etc.) ; staining and tide lines.Decoration: Some keywords and section headings rubricated, others overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; partially and somewhat irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, ṭāʼ, etc. as well as shaqq of kāf, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in curved strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: I (2), 5 V(52), II (56) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت ۱۲۳۲ حرره الحاج حافظ عمر غفر الله ذنوبه تم"Explicit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "سمت قبليه مطابق اولدى قبله سى قوس ارتفاعك طرفنه واقع اولدى تمت بعون الملك الوهاب تم" ; [Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat] "بلدك كى اول قيونك در يكلكى طقوز زراعدر"Incipit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "الحمد لله الذى جعل على البحر الاحضر [الاخضر] الفلك قناطير المقطنرات ... بو احقر عباد الله مصطفى بن على الموقت بالجامع الحاقانى السليمى ... وبو رسالۀ كفاية الوقت المعرفة [لمعرفة] الدائر وفضله والسمت برله تسميه ايله دم ..." ; [Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat] "الحمد لله عالم الغيب فلا يغرب عن عمله مثقال ذرة فى الارض ولا فى السماء ... اما بعد بو عبد ضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف مصطفى بن على الموقت بجامع الحاقانى السليمى بواه الله ديمكله متعارف اولان آلتده كه آلات رصديه ايجنده افاقى اولوب ... وبو رسالۀ تسهيل الميقات وتعيين الاوقات ديو تسميه ايلدم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work (p.6) and opening matter of second work (p.43).Ms. codex.5. p.109-p.112 : [blank].4. p.42-p.108 : Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.3. p.6-p.42: Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt / Mustafa bin Ali Muvakkit.2. p.5 : [blank].1. p.2-p.4 : [contents listing].Careful copy of two treatises by Muvakkit Mustafa b. Ali (d.1571), timekeeper in the mosque of Sultan Selim II (r.1566-1574), the first on the use of the almucantar or bridged quadrant (rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt) in 12 bābs and the second on timekeeping (ʻilm al-mīqāt) and the use of the sine quadrant (rubʻ mujayyab) in 22 bābs. Contents listing for both works on added leaves at opening (pp.2-4).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 413Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, decoration, etc. would suggest 17th or 18th century.Former shelfmark: "124 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf and recto of back flyleaf ; "263" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1) ; "٢٩١" on label affixed to lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in dark brown leather with brown leather over board edges and spine (likely repair) ; Type III binding (without flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in dark red-violet surface-dyed wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped lozenge-shaped central ornament (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, similar to Déroche class. NSd 5) with tooled and gold-painted accents and rule-border ; sewn in red-violet thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and red-violet, good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, significant negative draw in upper cover, etc. ; ill-fitting text block.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite indistinct) and no chain lines visible, cloudy formation, inclusions visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, light burnished, beige in color ; some breakthrough at frames ; added leaves in European paper (trace of raisin watermark, see p.154, 156, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular piece or dome with crudely drawn floral vegetal motifs in shades of pink, blue, red, white on a gold ground, surmounted by crude vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets (also defines divisions within) with outermost red and blue rules, elsewhere only gold frame appears ; section headings rubricated ; several somewhat crude illustrations appear toward the end of the text (see pp.50, 54, 55, 81, 83, 88, 96, 115, 122), all half or not quite full-page miniatures.Script: Naskh ; clear, well-formed Turkish hand in a medium line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with occasional head-serifs on free-standing alif, lām, etc., effect of tilt to the left, closed and open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes, occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; final poem in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), IV (10), 2 V(30), IV+1 (39), V (49), 3 IV(73), IV-6+6 (81), i ; mainly quaternions and quinions ; several blank leaves at opening and close of codex ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "عين عفوكله اول بزه ناظر سوزمز بودر اول وآخر تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب تم تم تم"Incipit: "سطر بسم الله اى اولو الالباب اولدى متفاح باب قفل كتاب ..."Title from rubricated heading in opening matter on p.30.Ms. codex.2. p.140-p.146 : Bahr-i tavil.1. p.2-p.139 : Kitab-i Şah u geda / Yahyâ Bey.Careful copy of Şah u geda or "The King and the beggar," most popular of the five mesnevis of the Hamse of Dukâginzâde (Dukakinzade) Yahyâ Bey Taşlıcalı (d.1578), an important 16th century Ottoman poet of Albanian origin. Illustrated with nine miniatures. Followed by an additional poem.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 410Origin: As appears in colophon on p.397, transcription completed 4 Ramaḍān 892 [ca. 24 August 1487].Former shelfmark: "493 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (mainly in blue and pink) with dark red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (marbled paper faced and leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; sewn in slate blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in slate blue and cream, only headband remains (and in fair condition) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper and leather, upper cover and spine material (including spine lining) detaching, etc. ; repair to spine / upper joint in red textile.Support: European laid paper of two types ; main type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32-35 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scales / balances in circle (round scale) with star on pole above (see p.88, 108, 186, 310, etc. and compare Piccard no.117251 Udine 1479), quite sturdy and well-burnished ; at opening of codex, another type with about 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 37 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of banner / flag / standard with cross on pole (see p.12, 28-29, 42, 48-49, 54, etc. and compare Briquet no. 5989 Palermo 1477 and Piccard nos. 122974 / 122975 Ulm 1478 - 1480).Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; written area (and columns within) surrounded by red rule-border ; simple 'tailpiece' in red consisting of floral motifs based on intersecting arcs within a circle flanks colophon.Script: Naskh with some elements of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless with only slight effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes ; extensively vocalized.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-1 (9), 7 V(79), IV (87), 3 V(117), V-2 (125), 7 V(195), 4 (199) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تمت بعون الله و حسن التوفيق تحريرا فى الرابع رمضان المبارك سنه اثنى وتسعين وثمانمائة"Explicit: "اولا عرش افسرى كرسى سريرى جهان چاكر جهابان دستكيرى"Incipit: "بحمد الواحد الاحد القديم وبسم الله ذى المين العظيم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine early copy of Şeyhî's celebrated Turkish version of the Persian allegorical romance, Khusraw va Shīrīn.
Book of predictions organized on monthly basis. Some months omitted in this copy.Title of book on f. 1r added by later hand.According to colophon (f. 18r), copy completed at the beginning of Shawwāl 841 AH [April 1438 AD] in the hand of Yūnus ibn Saqqā.With: Rûz-nâme (ff. 18v-21v).One folio missing at the beginning.17 x 12.8 cm (13.5 x 9 cm).Light-cream laid paper. Folios 14-16 worm-eaten.Written in vocalized naskh, in one column, 11 lines per pages, in black rubricated in red. Words at beginning of sentences either in red or red overlined.MS Turk 13. 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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 857Origin: As appears at close on p.165, dated 1140 [1727 or 8].Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes in hand of Eleazar Birnbaum, "Author ? | Title ? | [Title on flyleaf in a different hand KIṢṢA-I EBŪʼL MIHCAN VE SĀʼIR MUʻJIZĀT. "The Story of Abū al-Mihjan and other marvels" | The events of the early years of Islam in Ottoman Turkish. folk poetry. couplets, style possibly 15-16th cent. | Date [of copy] 1140 AH (1727-1728 A.D. | E Birnbaum June 1964" -- b. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Ḳissah i Abū al-Mahjan. Turkish A.H. 1140 (= A.D. 1727) | So Nuttall's list | Nothing found about this anywhere."Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 6Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather with dark red-brown leather now over spine (repair) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition) ; spine gold-stamped "K¨ISSA ¨I EBU L-MIHDJEN | MS. 1140" ; head edge of text block gilt ; now sewn in white thread over four recessed cords ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, staining, etc. ; repairs to spine (rebacked) and flap in dark red-brown and dark brown leathers.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart (horizontal) and three crescents watermark (roughly 95 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, 16, etc.), quite dense and sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished.Script: Naskh ; clear, spacious hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes, open and closed counters, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in conjoined dots ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 6 V(60), 2 IV(76), iii ; quinions followed by two quaternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink (now fading), Western numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips ahead 8 pages following p.90 with p.99).Explicit: "بوفاني دنياده يارى وفادار بولم ديرسك سكا يار اول سكا يار سنه ١١٤٠"Incipit: "بو بنده چاره اولورسه ايدر اول موسى بويله ددى طوتدم كنه يول ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.7).Ms. codex.Careful copy of a poetic rendering of uncertain authorship relating the tale of Abū Miḥjan ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabīb, Arab poet of the Thāqif tribe who converted to Islam in 631-2 and fought at al-Qādisīyah. Eleazar Birnbaum (who examined the manuscript in June, 1964) has characterized the form as folk poetry couplets, style possibly 15-16th cent.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 417Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest late 16th century.Former shelfmark: "٤٨٨" inscribed in black ink on upper cover label ; "141 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "٤٠٩" in black on upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (once with flap, now lost) ; doublures in dark red leather ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold painted (with recessed onlays) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, as well as tooled border ; sewn in heavy cream thread, two stations ; overall in quite poor condition with much abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, loss of flap, spine lining exposed, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, indistinct, some curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, transluscent, sturdy, beige in color, burnished ; front flyleaf and repairs in European laid paper.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by scalloped domes (in gold and red) and surrounded by swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, red, white, turquoise, lavender, etc. on a lapis lazuli ground and bordered in a band of heavy gold interlace, surmounted by rectangular piece evoking a row of scalloped domes in gold and lapis lazuli filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, turquoise, lavender, white, red, etc., entire piece surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and vegetal decoration in gold ; four half-page miniatures (wider than the written area), including miniature depicting Laylá and Qays (Majnūn) at school on p.27, miniature depicting Majnūn in the wilderness on p.60, miniature depicting Majnūn's family visiting him in the wilderness on p.81, and miniature depicting Laylá visiting Majnūn in the wilderness on p.111 ; written area surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; keywords and section headings chrysographed.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; exquisite hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), 3 IV(26), III+1 (33), IV-1 (40), 2 IV(56), III (62) ; chiefly quaternions and ternions ; final leaves lacking ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.119-120).Incipit: "اى نشاء حسنى عشقه تاثير قلن عشق ايله نباى دهرى تعمير قلن ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant (though incomplete, with end lacking) copy of Fuzulî's renowned Turkish rendering of the romance of Laylá and Majnūn. Illustrated with four miniatures (see p.27, p.60, p.80 and p.111).