Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1046Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; hand, dates of composition, and especially paper would suggest the last two decades of the 18th century. Date of 1296 [1879] at the close of Hulâsatü'l-itibar on fol.69 is possibly a corruption of 1195 [1781], the date of composition of this work ; it appears to have been entered by the rubricator who supplied many of the textual dividers and some overlining.Accompanying materials: Slip with inscription in black ink between fol.11 and fol.12.Former shelfmark: On front flyleaf, from Bouwman Books "msturk194".Binding: Pasteboards (thin) covered in dark red brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; doublures (board linings) in fine marbled paper (ebru) in grey, light blue, light brown and black ; upper and lower covers carry a ruled rectangular central panel and gold-tooled borders in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, tailband damaged ; overall in fairly goold condition with minor abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines (horiztonal) per cm., chain lines (vertical) spaced 26 mm. apart, and watermark of scrollwork with horn in shield, crown above, trefoil and "D& C Blauw" below (mark of the Dutch papermaking firm of Dirk & Cornelius Blauw, see Voorn pp. 543-4 ; 558-9, roughly 115 x 115 mm. including name of firm, compare Gravell Nos. TJ 163, TJ 162, TJ 137, TJ 709, TJ 351 / SLD.349.2, SLD.349.1, SLD.345.1, SLD.400.1, SLD.378.1 dated 1783-1793).Decoration: Keywords and many notabilia rubricated ; written area surrounded by red rule-borders ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, very neatly formed Ottoman hand, in a medium line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots, partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV+1 (9), V+1 (20), V (30), V+1 (41), V+1 (52), V (62), V+1 (73), III (79) ; final five leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in pencil, Western numerals (supplied by book seller).Incipit: [Sefaretname] "حمد موفور وسپاس نامحصور مالك ملكوت آسمان زمين اولان خدواند جهان آفرينه سزادركه ارسال رسل ورسائل ضمننده تبيين ملل واديان ... اما بعد تقرير كمترين بندكان ديوان سامى الحاج احمد رسمى بودركه بلاد شماليۀ غربيه دن جرمانيا او آلمانيا مملكتى داخلنده في الاصل سقصونه ايالتندن معدود اولان برآنده برق سنجاغنه القطورلق نشانى ..." ; [Hulâsatü'l-itibar] "ايفاى حمد وثناى خداوند علام واجراى وضيفۀ صلوة وسلام ختامندنصكره معروض انديۀ بهيۀ كرام بودركه فاتحۀ معمورۀ عالم ..." ; [Kıta-yi Halifetü'r-rüesa] "اشبو مقالۀ مشكين كلاله بيان وفيات ... محصوره اولميوب على العموم كتاب معارف انتسابه مسرح عيون اعتبار ومنهاج رفتار وانحدار اولمق ملاحظه سيله اواخر ملوك بني اميه واوائل دولت عباسيه ده رئيس الكتاب وفن كتابت وانشاده مقتداى شيخ وشاب اولان عبد الحميد بن سعيدك شرذمۀ [؟] كتابه دستور شمائل وشعار ... بلاغت علامه سى بطريق الترجمه بو محله ذيل وخاتمه قلنمشدر وهى هذه صناعت كتابت ومنقبت فصاحت وخطابتله موصوف اولان ..."Title from inscription on front flyleaf.Ms. codex.5. fol.69b-fol.74b : [Kıta-yi Halifetü'r-rüesa] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.4. fol.28b-fol.69a : [Hulâsatü'l-itibar] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.3. fol.27b-fol.28a : [blank].2. fol.22b-fol.27a : [Layiha] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.1. fol.1b-fol.22a : [Sefaretname-yi Ahmet Resmî] / Ahmet Resmî Efendi.Fine collection (mecmua) of works by Ahmet Resmî Efendi, opening with his Sefaretname, an account of his embassy to Berlin in 1177-78/1763-64, followed by the Layiha he presented to Muhsinzade Mehmed Paşa (d.1188/1774) as the Ottomans undertook negotiations with the Russians to end the Russo-Ottoman War (1768-74), next his critical and satirical history of that war Hulâsatü'l-itibar, and closing with an excerpt from Halifetü'r-rüesa (see pp.73-81 of the 1853 Istanbul edition), his biographical work on Ottoman chief scribes, addressing the scribal arts as modeled in the work of the first great scribe of Islam, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd al-Kātib (d.750).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 369Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest 18th century.Former shelfmark: "۱٦٨" from label affixed to upper cover ; "341 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in quite dark brown (to black) leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in yellow-tinted silver-flecked paper, flyleaves in untinted silver-flecked paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (with orange recessed onlays, gold-painted) scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces, with tooled rosette and gold-painted accents as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps evoking guilloché roll ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in blue-green thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with upper cover fully detached, spine split through in several places, endbands virtually gone (only small section of core and primaries remains at tail), abrasion and losses of media, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper mainly with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) under crown (see p.4, 8, 10, 30, 250, etc.) and "DE IZERON" (see p.6, 16, etc.), crisp and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished ; flyleaves in another European laid paper with 6 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-23 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords, headings and some abbreviation symbols (mainly signes de renvoi), marginalia and vocalization rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; occasional overlining in red ; written area surrounded by a heavy copper colored frame defined by black fillets and outermost red rule.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; clear Turkish hand ; serifless with slight inclination to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, many closed counters, pointing in conjoined dots ; opening (p.2) and pp.19-20 supplied in another nastaʻlīq (talik), serifless, with inclination to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 15 V(150), II (154), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "طلب دعاء اجابت قرين وجناب ستار العيوبدن در يوزۀ بهرۀ واجعل لى لسان صدق في الاخرين در رباعيه ... در عيب نظر مكن كه بى عيب خداست تمت م م م"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذى نزل احسن الحديث ومن اصدق من الله حديثا ... اما بعد وقتا كه نظم بو ضعيف ومقصر ومكتر اوقجى زاده محمد افقر ... و بعد توفيق الاتمام بو مجموعه براعت اتسام احسن الحديث اسمى ايله وسم اولنمق ..."Title from opening matter on p.6.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the elegant versification with prose commentary of forty ḥadīth by Okçuzade Mehmet Şahî Bey (d.1629).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 380Origin: As appears in colophon on pp.990-991, copied by Mahmut, the translator/author's son, for the vizier Hazret Osman Paşa ( حضرت عثمان پاشا) with transcription completed 1 Ṣafar 1112 [ca. 18 July 1700].Accompanying materials: Slip of blue wove paper carrying notes in black ink (between pp.202-203).Former shelfmark: "٢٤٧" in black ink on spine label ; "362 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis] on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan / light brown leather framed in black leather (over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures / pastedowns and flyleaves in heavy laid paper with a speckled ebru design (marbled) in red, white, blue, green, purple, and black ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped (with gold-painted, red recessed onlays) scalloped mandorla and pendants, as well as wide, tooled and gold-painted border in a series of s-shaped stamps (forming guilloché roll) flanked by gold rules ; design continues on flap ; sewn in blue thread, broken for many of the gatherings in the first half of the text and sometimes repaired with red thread ; worked chevron endbands in brown and light blue, losses exposing cores of head and tailband ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting (particularly where cover flanges overlap on spine) and losses of leather, envelope flap detaching from fore edge flap, etc.Support: European laid paper of at least three types ; first type with roughly 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) roughly 28 mm. apart, well-burnished, thick and creamy (see p.20, etc.) ; second type with roughly 14 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 23 mm. apart, well-burnished, thin and crisp, scrollwork / arms watermark (see p.571, etc.) ; third type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 14 mm. apart, well-burnished, thin and crisp, watermark with grapes surmounted by a cartouche with "...RBE..." written inside surmounted by a crown (compare to Heawood 2385, see p.791, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral vegetal accents in green and red on a gold ground, surmounted by a scalloped, semi-circular piece (dome) with floral floral designs in pink, lavender, red, and teal on a gold ground, itself surmounted by delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in dark blue and flecked with gold above ; entire piece set in a well of white crosses on a thin red band ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of a heavy gold band flanked by black fillets and outermost gold rule ; section headings, keywords, notabilia and some vocalization rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of discs and inverted commas in gold (incipit and facing page, pp.4-5) and red ; edges of text block decorated with floral-vegetal motifs in gold.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline and elongated horizontal strokes, fully vocalized at times.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV+1 (9), 48 V (489), III+1 (496), ii ; chiefly quinions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "قد استراحت قديمة القلم عن السياحت في ميادين الرقم ... على يد افقر من مشى تحت الخضرا... محمود ابن مترجم هذا الكتاب المستطاب ... وجعله هدية لخزانة كتب الوزير المكرم والدستور المفخم ... حضرت عثمن پاشا اناله الله بما يحبه ويشا وكثر من المستعدين من اولاه وجعل اخراه اولى من اوليه ... حرر في غرة صفر المظفر ختم بالخير والظفر من شهور سنه اثنى وعشرة و مائة بعد الالف من هجره من انزل عليه القران حرفا بعد حرف"Explicit: "وضلع امرأه ايله تعبير اولنور زيرا رسول اكرم غرابه فاسق الطلاق ومراه يي ضلعه تشبيه بيورديلر والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وله و صحبه اجمعين"Incipit: "ان احسن الاحاديث بعد الحمد لمن جعل السقف الاخضر مرفوعا ... وبعد بو كمينۀ كم بضاعه وفقير قصير الباعه ..."Title from titlepiece on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the extensive Ottoman Turkish rendering (with commentary) by İshak Hocası Ahmet b. Heyreddin (d.1708) of al-Tirmidhī's (d.892) Kitāb al-Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Copy apparently executed by the author's son (see colophon) and collated by the author himself (see collation statement on p.1). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 379Origin: As appears in colophon on p.1391, copied by Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (Mehmet b. Halil) ; date of transcription not specified ; paper suggests 18th century (perhaps mid century).Accompanying materials: a. Slip of wove paper with notes in black ink (between pp.230-321) -- b. Slip of laid paper with notes in black ink (between pp.726-727).Former shelfmark: "340 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of opening leaf (p.2) ; "٣٢ع | ٤خ" on spine label.Binding: Pasteboards covered in gold-flecked red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped (with orange paper onlay) and gold-painted mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. NA 4), surrounded by a tooled border consisting of an s-shape stamped chain in gold flanked by thin gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in pink and yellow thread in a chevron pattern ; overall in fair condition with fore edge flap lost, repairs to spine and fore edge of lower board in a darker red leather, and abrasion on upper and lower covers.Support: European laid paper of several types ; one opening type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 12 mm. apart, and watermark of grapes surmounted by a crown (see p.32) ; another with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, and watermark of "?AHE?NE" and figure (see p.46) ; another with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, and watermark of grapes surmounted by a crown with a heart motif (see p.136) ; another with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 21 mm. apart, watermark of grapes (see p.578) ; another with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines (horizontal) spaced roughly 24 mm. apart, and watermark of LANGUEDOC (see p.592) ; all well-burnished, thin and crisp.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with emtpy gold cartouche outlined in orange and flanked by floral vegetal accents in gold, light pink, and pale blue, surmounted by a scalloped semicircular piece (dome) outlined in orange and filled with floral vegetal accents in blue, pale blue, light pink, orange, and white, itself surmounted by delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue, and set in a well consisting of a thick band of light pink ; written area throughout surrounded by a thick gold frame with outer black rule ; Qurʼānic passages rubricated in a range of red shades ; overlining in red ink.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium to bold line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: II (4), 169 V (694), II (698) ; chiefly quinions ; final two leaves (following close of text) left blank ; foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كتبه اضعف العباد محمد بن حليل م"Explicit: "ومراه يي ضلعه تشبيه بيورديلر صلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله و صحبه اجمعين و الحمد الله حمدا يوافي نعمه ويكافي مزيده كلما حمده الحامدون و ذكره الذاكرون تمت بعون الحق"Incipit: "ان احسن الاحاديث بعد الحمد لمن جعل السقف الاخضر مرفوعا ... وبعد بو كمينۀ كم بضاعه وفقير قصير الباعه ... لمؤلفه احمدم ... واقوم الوسائل في ترجمة الشمائل ديو نام زد قيلدم ... "Title from opening matter on p.14.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the extensive Ottoman Turkish rendering (with commentary) by İshak Hocası Ahmet b. Heyreddin (d.1708) of al-Tirmidhī’s (d.892) Kitāb al-Shamāʼil, a collection of traditions comprising the Prophet’s characteristics. Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 673Origin: As appears at close on p.523, dated Rabīʻ II 1153 [June-July 1741] "في ربيع الاخر سنه ١١٥٤".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 spine label, "IL 35" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in now silvery laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 8), pendants and corner pieces along with tooled accents (strokes and rosette stamp) and border (rules flanking a series of s-shaped stamps) ; sewn in red and yellow (from around p.144) thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and yellow, only headband remains ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of leather (particularly at board edges), delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to spine, fore edge flap and board edges in black leather, also damaged.Support: European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of crown above cartouche with name and grapes (raisin) below (see p.16, 54, 246, etc.), sturdy and dense, beige in color, well-burnished ; some staining and tide lines.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.16, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents in gold and red on a blue ground surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with somewhat crudely executed floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow and red on fields of blue and gold with red accents ; entire piece set into a well consisting of a series of colored bands (in red, gold, yellow, and white) with crosses repeated in black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by a gold frame, elswhere central written area and margins surrounded by a red rule-border ; keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas, discs, etc. ; some overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Ottoman hands ; opening hand (through p.334) partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif on occasional lām or other ascender, marked effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, some free assimilation of letters (dots) ; from p.335 to close (as well as table of contents, pp.4-14), another elegant naskh, seriffed with left-sloping wedge or barb head-serifs on most ascenders (vertical stroke of final kāf and even shaqq of medial or initial kāf also seriffed), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, dramatic contrast of thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) in heavy strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), 21 V(216), 2 IV(232), 3 V(262), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and added leaves, mistakenly skips two pages between pp.423-424).Explicit: "اخره تفويض ايتمك استدكده زيد مجرد زراعت ايتدكلريمك حقوقلرينى ارا ايتمكله زراعت ايتمدكلرينك تفويضندن عمروى منعه قادر اولورنى الجواب اولماز"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي احكم احكام الشرع على احسن الترتيب والنظام وجعل علماء الشريعة خلفاء رسوله في بيان الحلال والحرام ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة ربه الغني محمد فقهى العينى لله در علامة زماننا ... مظهر الاحكام الربانية مفتي السلطنة العثمانية مولانا ابو الفضل عبد الله افندى اليكيشهرى فقد بذل جهده في الافتاء لذوي الحاجات ... واني لما استسعدت بخدمته [؟] العليا ... اردت ان ارتب هذا الكتاب المستطاب ليسهل الاطلاع على تفاريق الواقعات ... واثبت في الهامش نقل كل مسئلة ... فلما صار ذلك كتابا مرتبا ... سميته ببهجة الفتاوى ..."Title from opening matter (preface) on p.17.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions by Yenişehirli Abullah Efendi (d. 1742 or 3), compiled (with an Arabic preface) and annotated in Arabic by Muḥammad Fiqhī al-ʻAynī (fl. 1702). Table of contents provided at opening (pp.4-14).
Turkish calendar, with a lunar table showing the phases of the moon. Includes information on prayer times for each day of the year and astrological signs for finding the best times for curing different illnesses.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 276Origin: As appears in colophon on final panel, executed by Ömer Sırrı, one of the students of Mehmet Sadullah Efendi, known as Arabzade. Date of transcription not specified, but likely during Ömer Sırrı's training and thus before the death of Arabzade Mehmet Sadullah Efendi.Binding: Boards covered in red-brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings and lining of opening and closing panel in light blue coated and textured paper ; upper and lower covers carry exquisite tooled vegetal design (swirling leaves and flowers set off by small rosette stamps surrounding central almond-shaped form) in contrasting shades of gold, set in gold tooled borders (also in contrasting colors) in a series of s-shaped stamps and rosettes ; panels edged in red-brown leather with gold-painted rule borders and hinged together with dark pink silk ; overall in good condition ; repairs in Japanese paper (rebacked).Support: Written area on well-burnished paper (untinted or tinted blue, red, etc. or marbled), set in frames of embossed paper (with vegetal designs) tinted various shades (pale peach, olive green, orange, yellow, turquoise, light blue, red, dark green, etc.) with colors of facing panels matching.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame of heavy gold and colored bands (mainly in blue and red) set off by white fillets ; each specimen (kıta) set in a frame bordered in gold rules ; two specimens chrysographed ; leaves and floral sprays in blue, lavender, pink, green and gold flank colophon at close.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; exquisite specimen Ottoman calligraphy.Layout: Written in four lines per page with logograph for "سعي" under each line.Collation: Twelve 'panels' (mounted leaves) hinged together mainly in dark pink silk ; 'pagination' in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals in upper outer corner of panel (frame).Colophon: "نوشته شد بقلم شكتسه سيد عمر سرى كيه دار ناظر ديوان دعاوى صانه الله تعالى عن النقايص والمساوى از شاكر دان حضرت استاد مكارم اعتياد صدر والاى روم ايلى مولانا محمد سعد الله افندى الشهير بعرب زاده همه كا مش بادآ آماده"Explicit: "اثر اميدى ايله عالمده ايلدم بو قطعاتي تحرير اوقور اخوان صفا تاريخن اولدى والا اثر عبد فقير ١١٥٦ "Incipit: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعظم اسماء عليم حكيم محترمان حرم انس را تازه حديثست ز عهد قديم..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite calligraphic specimen employing Jāmī's qaṣīdah on the basmalah for mürekkebât meșki exercises, executed by one of the students of Arabzade Mehmet Sadullah Efendi (d.1843).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 402Origin: Date at close, 1205 [1790 or 91] during the reign of Sultan Selim III (r.1789-1807). Most likely executed by the master calligrapher Mehmet Esat Yesari (d.1798) as proposed by Muhittin Serin (see note on catalog card dated "20.4.1993") and Mohamed Zakariya and confirmed by Uğur Derman.Former shelfmark: "538 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in cream silk with dark red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (silk faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards and recto of opening and final panel lined in marbled paper (kumlu or kılçıklı ebru in pink, light blue, and dark blue) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; panels hinged together with dark red leather ; in somewhat poor condition with lifting of silk and leather, delamination of boards, much abrasion, staining, panels detaching from spine, etc.Support: Well-burnished laid paper (with roughly 8 vertical laid lines per cm.) mounted on heavy paper with pieced marbled paper (kumlu or kılçıklı ebru in blue and cream) framing the written area.Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of inner orange band and heavy gold outer band, outlined in black fillets.Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; text throughout in an elegant, large nastaʻlīq (celi talik) in a heavy line ; pin-pricks surround each letter, presumably for transfer to the commemorative stone by pouncing.Layout: Written in a single line per page (opens vertically with lines running parallel to the spine).Collation: Eight heavy leaves or 'panels' hinged together.Explicit: "قيروب بيك ايكيوز بش سالى دستى پيك اديم يرده"Incipit: "جناب حضرت سلطان سليم خان جهانبانك ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) with design for a monumental inscription to appear in stone on a commemorative range marker (menzil taşı) of Bilâl Ağa (d.1807?), likely executed by Yesari Mehmed Esad Efendi (d.1798), the great Ottoman master of nastaʻlīq (talik).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 374Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoraton, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "419 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pink wove paper (darker fibers visible within the sheet) ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped (with gold-painted recessed onlays in red-orange) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd) and pendants with tooled rosette and gold-painted accents, as well as guilloché roll border in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather at fore edge flap (revealing interior / flesh side of teal leather lining fore edge flap), etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of "C & I HONIG" under crowned shield with horn (see p.2, 20, 28-29, 84, 248, etc.) and countermark "IV" (see p.6, etc.) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of winged-figure (cherub) holding aloft banner with "ALMASSO" and "GM" (see opening leaf, p.18 and final leaf) ; all sturdy, well-burnished, and tinted a pale blue.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents (fihris) on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the title in red ("جلد اول مكى از ترجمۀ معارج النبوة في السير") flanked by faint gold floral motifs, surmounted by scalloped dome filled with central floral motif surrounded by swirling vegetal pattern all in same faint gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; another fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.20, consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling vegetal composition with floral motifs all in gold with red accents, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red, entire piece set in a well of pink and light blue bands ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame with outermost red rule, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower faint gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost red rule, divisions within table of contents defined by narrow faint gold bands outlined by black fillets ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs ; section headings, key words and passages, and notabilia rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; partially serifed with teardrop head-serifs on most ascenders apart from alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, many open counters, curvlinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots, extensively vocalized.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 38 V(380), V+1 (391), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Dedication: As appears in preface on pp.23-24, composed for Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).Explicit: "صكره مدينه كلدى بعض رواياتده زبير برينه طلحه بن عبد الله ديرلر تم الجلد المكى ويتلوه الجلد المدنى م"Incipit: "الله ولى التوفيق الهادى الى سبيل الصواب واحسن الطريق الاف حمد وثناء بى قياس واصناف شكر وسپاس مرصوص الاساس جناب حقه جل وعلا كه مشيت شرف غايتى ... سبب تحرير كتاب وباعث تذكير خطاب در ..."Title from headpiece at opening of table of contents on p.2.Ms. codex.Elegant first volume (addressing Mecca, roughly the muqaddimah through rukn 3) of the translation by Muṣṭafá ibn Jalāl, i.e. Mustafa Çelebi Celâlzade, known as Koca Nişancî (d.1567), of the voluminous biographical work on the life of the Prophet by Muʻīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Farāhī al-Haravī, known as Mullā Miskīn or Muʻīn al-Miskīn (d.1501 or 2). Table of contents at opening (pp.2-15).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 375Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "412 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in dark green textured (embossed in scalloped patterns) and coated paper ; upper and lower covers carry large stamped (with gold-painted recessed onlays in red-orange) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd) and pendants with tooled rosette and gold-painted accents, as well as guilloché roll border in gold ; design continues on flap ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and pink, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, fore edge flap detaching from lower cover, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25-26 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of "C & I HONIG" under crowned shield with horn (see p.6, 24, 30, 36, 40, 498, etc.) and countermark "IV" (see p.4, 8, etc.) ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 20 mm. apart (vertical) and watermark of winged-figure (cherub) holding aloft banner with "ALMASSO" (see p.2) ; all sturdy, well-burnished, and tinted a pale blue.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents (fihris) on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying the title in red ("جلد ثانى مكى از ترجمۀ معارج النبوة في السير") flanked by faint gold floral motifs, surmounted by scalloped dome filled with central floral motif surrounded by swirling vegetal pattern all in same faint gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; another fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.20, consisting of rectangular piece with empty (though traces of inscription in red ink) gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in gold, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling vegetal composition with floral motifs all in gold with red accents, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red, entire piece set in a well of light blue and pink bands ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame with outermost red rule, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower faint gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost red rule, divisions within table of contents defined by narrow faint gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings, key words and passages, and notabilia rubricated.Script: Naskh ; clear, bold Turkish hand ; partially serifed with teardrop head-serifs on most ascenders apart from alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, many open counters, curvlinear descenders (some sweeping), pointing in distinct or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV+1 (9), V+1 (20), 37 V(390), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.557-558).Explicit: "الحمد لله على هذه العطية كتاب اخره ايرشدى خطاب اولدى الحمد لله على التوفيق واستغفر الله من كل تقصير وغفرانك ربنا واليك المصير نعم المولى ونعم النصير سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين الفاتحه"Incipit: "اول حضرتك صلى الله عليه وسلم مدينه منوره يه وصولى وتشريف قدوم ايچون انصارك استقبالدر ..."Title from headpiece at opening of table of contents on p.4.Ms. codex.Elegant second volume (addressing Medina, roughly rukn 4 and the tatimmah / khātimah) of the translation by Muṣṭafá ibn Jalāl, i.e. Mustafa Çelebi Celâlzade, known as Koca Nişancî (d.1567), of the voluminous biographical work on the life of the Prophet by Muʻīn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Amīn al-Farāhī al-Haravī, known as Mullā Miskīn or Muʻīn al-Miskīn (d.1501 or 2). Table of contents at opening (pp.4-17).
Abstract: Contains copies of imperial edicts sent to Crete and petitions presented by Cretans reflecting their social and economic concerns. Ms. likely belonged to an Ottoman bureaucrat in Crete.Binding note: Quarter leather with boards.Ms. codex.Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords.Origin: Dated 1143 AH (1730 or 31) (fol. 10b).
Abstract: Vaqıf document. Signatures and stamps of three judges on fol. 1a; witnesses listed on fol. 10b.Binding note: Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and fillets.Ms. codex.Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on heavy glazed, laid European paper. Catchwords. Some staining and smudging. In good condition.Decoration: On fol. 1b, illuminated unvan in gold and color. Text framed in double gold lines; phrase stops in the shape of gold disks with red and blue dots.Origin: 15 Muḥarram 1162 H 5 January 1749 (fol. 9b).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 214Origin: Final record entries dated Ṣafar 1026 [February-March 1617] ; copy likely executed just after.Former shelfmark: "537 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro de Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in shell marbled paper (in shades of lavender, brown, etc.) with spine in gray leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in coated, green surface-dyed wove paper ; sewn in red thread, six stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal or vertical, fairly indistinct), cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, burnished.Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by arabesques and floral motifs in gold with pink and red accents on a field of bright blue (cobalt), bordered in a band of red with white crosses and surmounted by a scalloped dome or triangular piece filled with similar vegetal decoration also on grounds of gold and blue, all set in a well of gold bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; second illuminated headpiece (rectangular with empty gold cartouche and delicate floral designs in white, pink, light blue, gold, etc.) on at opening of main text following preface on p.4 ; written area surrounded by gold frame ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes ; some keywords and headings chrysographed or overline in gold, others rubricated or in white ink ; marginal decorations in the form of roundels setting off seal impressions (on the rectos of many folia see pp.2-3, 5, 7, 9) with gold and blue borders and vertical stalks, or carrying invocation "نحمد الله على نعمائه الجميلة وعلى آلائه الجليلة وعلى الطافه الجزيلة حمدا دائما كثيرا" (p.4) or vegetal designs (see pp.6, 8, 10, i.e. on the versos of those same folia, filling the outline of the roundel bordering the seal impression on the recto) .Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; exquisite Turkish / Ottoman hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of inclination to the right, gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing mainly in strokes or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 29-30 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, II (4), I+1 (7), i ; catchwords present (though now obscured in some places) ; pagination in Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "أن الشريف جليل ابن صلبي للشريف سيدى [؟] ابن الشريف مصطفى ابن الشريفة سلام من النسب الطاهر وذلك بعد أن أبرز حجة دالة على شرف جده وهو الشريف مصطفى ... معنونة بعنوان النقباء السالفين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي خلق من الماء بشرا فجعله نسبا وصهرا وربى شجرة هذا النسب بمياه الحسب والادب والتقوى وجعل أصلها آدم الصفي الذي اجتباه ربه وهدى وأطلع ثمرتها النامية السامية في غصنها الاعلى سيد الورى فصارت كشجرة طيبة أصلها ثابت وفرعها في السما ... وبعد فالسبب الداعي إلى تحرير هذه النميقة الأنيقة والوثيقة الوثيقة هو أنه قد تبين وبهر وتعين وظهر وكالشمس في رابعة النهار اشتهر باخبار العالم العامل الرباني خادم الشرع الشريف الصمداني ... شيخ الاسلام ... مولانا اسعد افندي ... ابن المولى المرحوم ... مولانا سعد الدين ... أن شيخي ومولاي ... الشيخ السيد محمود افندى الاسكدارى ... من النسب الطاهر وسيادته بين الأنام بين وظاهر ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.12-p.14 : Nat-i Hazret-i Server-i Kainat ve Müfahhar-i mevcudat2. p.11 : [blank].1. p.2-p.10 : [records of the office of nakibüleşraf].Elegant copy of what appears to be a record book of the Niqābat al-Ashrāf (office of nakibüleşraf or nakıbü'l-eşraflık) with each entry after the first (which is for al-Shaykh al-Sayyid Maḥmūd Afandī al-Uskudārī / Şeyh Mahmut Efendi Üsküdarî, d.1626) numbered and signed "شهود الحال خدام مجلس النقابة." Entries are followed by a poem in praise of the Prophet in Ottoman Turkish. Identification and contributions to the description provided by Ahmad Nazir Atassi. "Each entry is an attestation in front of prominent witnesses that a certain person has proven to be a sharīf by a document he produced that was signed by some previous Naqīb al-Ashrāf and that testifies the sharīfian rank of one of his ancestors." - from description provided by Ahmad Nazir Atassi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 850Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. would suggest 17th century ; dated seal impression can suggest only a very rough terminus ante quem of 1765.Accompanying materials: Slip with description and price of this manuscript cut from a seller's catalog "[ARABIC MANUSCRIPT]. ATTAYI. Divan, or Collection of poems. 84 leaves, double column, headings and titles in solid gold, each poem and page within heavily gilt borders, 2 'unwans in blue and gold. 20 by 11.2 cm., 12mo, contemporary goatskin. Arabia, xviii century. $17.50 Fine calligraphic example, charmingly executed. On the last blank leaf is a detailed flowered ornamental pencil outline in prepared for the illuminator, of interest as showing the method of work."Former shelfmark: "46 . 47" in black ink on cover label.Binding: Pasteboards (thin) covered in brown leather once edged in black leather (see traces on lower cover) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings (doublures) in once marbled paper (mainly pink, yellow, etc.) ; upper and lower covers carry tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps, originally in gold over black leather, now lost from many areas ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, moisture damage, lifting of leather, etc. ; spine repair in black leather (overlaping flanges visible).Support: non-European (likely Persian or Indian) laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (mainly vertical but occasionally horizontal) and occasional chain lines visible, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy, some leaves tinted pink or yellow ; flyleaves in European laid paper ; staining and tidelines.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Divan-ı Atayi on p.6 consisting of rectangular piece with small gold cartouches carrying the title "ديوان عطايى" in black surrounded by swirling arabesques with floral accents in gold, light blue, and black on a lapis lazuli / cobalt ground, bordered in heavy gold band with delicate floral vegetal pattern in blue and black as well as narrower blue and gold bands defined by black fillets, entire piece surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; another exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Divan-ı Nizâmî on p.72 consisting of rectangular piece carrying the title "ديوان نظامى" in black surrounded by delicate swirling arabesques with floral accents in gold, black, and light blue on grounds of gold and lapis lazuli / cobalt, entire piece bordered in a narrow gold band defined by black fillets and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets ; keywords and headings chrysographed.Script: Naskh ; compact, bold Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional ascenders (even free-standing alif), effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, freely ligatured, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, with three dots represented by a c-shaped stroke.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, IV (8), V (18), IV (26), V (36), IV (44), V (54), IV (62), V (72), IV (80), II (84), i ; alternating quinions and quaternions ; leaves between the two works (pp.70-71) and at close (pp.171-172) ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Incipit: [Divan-ı Atayi] "يينه عزم رزم قلدى سرور خاور كنش كم ديار هنده چكدى صبحدم لشكر كنش" ; [Divan-ı Nizâmî] "يا اشرف البرية يا سيد الوري اعلى الاله ذاتك قدرا ومنزلا "Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.4. p.171-p.172 : [blank].3. p.72-p.170 : Divan-ı Nizâmî / Karamanlı Nizâmî.2. p.70-p.71 : [blank].1. p.6-p.69 : Divan-ı Atayi / Nevizade Atayi Ataullah bin Yahya.Elegant copy of the Turkish dīvāns of two Ottoman poets, Nevizade Atayi Ataullah bin Yahya (d.1635) and Karamanlı Nizâmî (Şeyh Nizamettin b. Veliettin of Karaman, fl. 15th cent.).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 405Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration etc. would suggest late 16th or possibly early 17th century ; dated ownership statement on 'title page' (p.3) provides a terminus ante quem of 1853.Former shelfmark: "311 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, damaged but in fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct) and no chain lines visible, crisp, well-sized and burnished, dark cream in color ; much repaired.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying invocation in red "يا قاسم الارزاق بالاستحقاق" ) surrounded by delicate arabesques with floral motifs in gold, lavender, red, turquoise, etc. on a light blue and gold ground, surmounted by a scalloped band of evoking a row of domes filled with same delicate arabesques in gold, pink, lavender, turquoise, red, etc. on grounds of light blue and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in light blue ; another fine illuminated headpiece at opening on p.45 ; written area surrounded by a frame of gold bands defined by black fillets, divisions within (occasionally gold-flecked) defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; illuminated tailpiece at close on p.48, consisting of elegant vegetal designs in black and pink with red accents on a gold ground with lapis borders.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; bold, elegant Ottoman hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page, with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 IV(16), III (22), 1 (23), i ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present (though occasionally obscured by repairs) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "كه بحر خاك نيست مظهر كل"Incipit: "ينه شوقم بلوردى جوشم وار موج دريا كبى خروشم وار ..."Title from inscription on upper doublure.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān (collected poems) of Hüseyin Celâl Bey, known as Celâlî (1517-1571), see Türk dili ve edebiyatı ansiklopedisi (1977), ii, p.26.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 403Origin: As appears in colophon on p.427, copied by Shujāʻ al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī with transcription completed in Shaʻbān 989 [September 1581].Former shelfmark: "229 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "٤٠" on front flyleaf (p.1) ; "٦٩٧" on spine label.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark red leather with central mandorla and cornerpieces in gold-painted leather filigree appliqué over blue paper, pendants in black filigree appliqué over gold leaf, as well as gold-painted accents ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (with once gold-painted recessed onlays in dark red leather) mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OSd 3), pendants, cornerpieces and border lozenges ; design continues on flap ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, poor condition with tailband entirely gone and headband significantly damaged with losses of threads and core exposed ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, fore edge flap detaching, etc. ; numerous repairs in another dark red-brown leather (at edges, spine / rebacked, joints, hinges / rehinged, etc.).Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly distinct, some curving) and occasional pairs of chain lines only faintly visible, somewhat cloudy formation , some inclusions, quite sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; later flyleaves in European laid paper ; breakthrough at frames in many leaves ; numerous repairs (fills, guards, etc.).Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.6, consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by elegant arabesques with floral accents in gold, red, yellow, and light blue on a lapis lazuli ground and bordered in a bands of red and heavy gold interlace, surmounted by a large scalloped w-shaped piece filled with delicate arabesques in gold, light blue, yellow, red and white on grounds of gold and lapis lazuli divided by bands of white and turquoise to a series of scalloped dome or diamond shapes, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) and set in a well of light blue and gold ; another exquisite illuminated headpiece (rectangular piece surmounted by scalloped dome set in heavy band) at opening of section on p.108 ; written area surrounded by a frame consisting of bands of red, turquoise, and gold defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule, divisions within (some gold-flecked) defined by narrow gold bands outlined with black fillets ; keywords and headings chrysographed ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, with written area often divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 IV(48), II (52), 20 IV(212), I (214), ii ; almost exclusively quaternions ; leaves between sections left blank (pp.102-107) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "فرغ من تمت الديوان نجاتي عليه الرحمة فى يوم السبت شهر شعبان المبارك سنه ٩٨٩ تسع وثمانين وتسعمائه عن يد الفقير الحقير شجاع الدين محمد شيرازى"Explicit: "دنيا ايچنده باغ ارم كورمك استين سورسن يوزن مزارنه اول يوجه حضرتك"Incipit:"بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اولدى چو عنوان ديوان قديم كلوكز اولالم كه وبى كاه ذاكر لا اله الا الله ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Necâtî Bey (İsa) Edirnevî (d.1509).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 422Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest latter 18th century.Former shelfmark: "479 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in shell marbled paper (mainly in red and blue) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped scrollwork designs with central lozenge, corner motifs and vegetal border, gold-stamped designs continue on spine ; now sewn in white thread over two recessed cords, four stations ; stuck-on endbands in green ; register in sheer silk ribbon ; edges of text block gold-flecked ; overall in fair condition with damage to upper board corner, minor abrasion, some negative draw in covers, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 18-21 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scrollwork with three stylized hats in shield and "F C" below (see fol.5, 6, 15, 16, etc.), sturdy and quite well-burnished to glossy, alternating bifolia tinted yellow.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of "منشآت" on fol.1b, consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in light green, pink, light blue, white, red, and gold on grounds of gold and dark blue, bordered in white, black, gold, red and blue bands, surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red and set in a well of pink with red accents ; other fine illuminated headpieces at opening of "صلحيه نمچه" on fol.49b, opening of "تقريضات" on fol.69b, opening of "قصائد" on fol.71b, opening of "تخميسات" on fol.79b, and opening of ghazals on fol.84b ; written area surrounded by gold frame, with divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black fillets ; keywords rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; fine, compact hand in a heavy line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 12 V(120), V-1 (129), i ; exclusively quinions ; catchwords present.Incipit: "حركت كردن از شتائيه بطرف صيفيه وبعد ازين نقل كردن بجنات محبوبيه جناب برارنده نه طباق افلاك جل ذاته عن درك الادراك ..."Title from inscription on 'title page'.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān (collected verse and prose) of the Ottoman Grand Vizier and littérateur, Koca Mehmet Ragıp Paşa (d.1763), opening with münşeat. Contribution to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 679Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.281b, copied by Nāʻil Ṣuḥufī [?]. Date transcription finished appears as a chronogram "غزلق" or 1137 [غ1000 + ز7 + ل30 + ق100 =1137, i.e. 1724 or 1725].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on fol.1a (p.1), "IL 132 a1" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and interior of envelope flap in pink tinted laid paper ; interior of foreedge flap in light brown leather ; upper and lower covers carry central blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (elongated) and pendants with vegetal pattern (compare Déroche class. OSd 8) accented with gold and red paint, bordered by fillet with strokes and dots at apices and sprandels of scallops in gold paint ; frame of striated s-shaped stamps painted gold and bordered by two gold fillets also in gold paint ; at corners and midpoints of frame, dots and strokes in gold paint ; foreedge flap decorated with fillets and heavy vegetal pattern (vine) in gold paint ; in fair condition with significant wear and pest damage but intact and still well-attached to text block.Support: European laid paper, mainly with laid lines running vertically spaced roughly 11-12 laid lines per cm., single chain lines running horizontally spaced roughly 25-26 mm. apart, and watermark of three hats (tre cappeli) or caps (see p.38, 58, 230, 232, etc.), well-burnished, thin though quite sturdy; very few if any inclusions ; countermark of "V d" under trefoil appears in p.136.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) on fol.1b consists of a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) flanked by scalloped accents filled by a vegetal pattern in gold, blue, red, and black on fields of gold and blue ; dome and flanking pieces are outlined in a blue fillet and surmounted by vertical stalks (ṭīgh) in blue positioned at alternating spandrels ; entire piece is bordered by an elaborate frame consisting of a band of blue with minute cross or diamond shapes flanked by narrow gold bands outlined by fillets ; elaborate frames appear throughout, consisting of gold band (of at least three thicknesses) bordered by black fillets surround both the entire written area for each folio as well as the columns of text within ; text rubricated with titles, headings, etc. in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, point of final and free-standing nūn set at mouth of tall, wide, angled bowl, occasionally nearly assimilated with it, hāʻ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas, pointing (for two and three dots) often in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page; written area consists of a broad single column most often divided into two columns and framed thusly, though this layout varies ; in certain sections a centered column of two hemistiches of verse alternates with verse laid in two columns, divided at each hemistich ; headings usually appear centered on the single column or across its width; frame-ruled.Collation: i,12 V (120), IV (128), I (130), 6 V (190), IV+1 (199), 3 V (229), V+1 (240), 2 I (244), i ; chiefly quinions; leaves falling between the various sections of poetry left partially blank (though without missing text) and leaves following close of text intially left blank but now carry additional matter including lines of poetry, lines on Ebussuud Efendi, etc. ; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تمام شد ديوان نابى رحمه الله تعالى في تاريخ غزلق دست حقير نائل صحفى [؟] تم"Explicit: "طاغيلرسه كور رآنى نكران جمع اولور ايه اولور آب روان"Incipit: [rubric]" قصيده در توحيد باري جل شانه براى باعث ترتيب ديوان ابراهيم پاشا رح [text] تعالى الله زهى ديوانطراز صورت معنا كه جسم لفظله روح مآ لي ايلمش الما ..."Title from inscription below headpiece on fol.1b.Ms. codex.Collected poems (ghazalīyāt, qaṣāyid, rubāʻiyāt, etc.) of Nabi, followed by a few additional excerpts at close of codex.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 363Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, etc. suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: Slip of wove paper with note in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "363 | Dīvān of Bāḳī | undated, probably 16th cent. | contemporary binding."Former shelfmark: "93 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures in dark red-brown leather with large mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces in gold and black painted leather filigree appliqué over blue paper (design continues on interior of envelope flap) ; flyleaves (made endpapers) in slate blue paper, gold-flecked ; upper and lower covers block-stamped, black- and and gold-painted (large panel stamp repeated twice with central seam visible) with design of mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, upper and lower rectangular piece and wide border overlaid with vegetal composition filling panel ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in light blue (approaching silver) thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition ; overall in good condition with some abrasion, etc. ; likely repairs (edging, fore edge flap, etc.) in dark red / maroon leather.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, indistinct) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, some bits of fibre and inclusions visible, thin and crisp though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; opening section heavily moisture damaged with stains, traces of mold, etc. ; elsewhere breakthrough at frames.Decoration: Splendid illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece (bordered in bands of gold flanking orange-red band with black crosses) with empty gold cartouche surrounded by swirling vegetal decoration in gold with floral accents in red, yellow, green, light blue, and white on grounds of dark blue (approaching lapis) and gold, surmounted by band of gold with floral motifs (flanked by narrow bands of turquoise and gold) and scalloped dome with similar swirling vegetal motifs with floral accents (in light blue, red, white, orange, green, lavender, etc.) on grounds of gold and dark blue, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) and delicate floral vegetal decoration ; similar elegant headpiece at opening of ghazals on p.62 (rectangular piece with empty cartouche srmounted by wide scalloped dome almost filling the well, chiefly in gold and dark blue approaching lapis with swirling floral vegetal decoration in gold, white, red, lavender, light blue, green, etc.) ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of gold band outlined in black with inner orange fillet and outer blue fillet, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black ; from p.257, rubricated section headings provided.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with gentle effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, point of final nūn set at mouth (occasionally just above) wide, deep bowl ; text from p.257 to close possibly in a different hand.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board visible).Collation: i, IV+1 (9), III+1 (16), 15 IV(136), II-1 (139), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "صی دآن شاهد مطبوع شمایل باشی تمت م م م"Incipit: "خط مشك فامكله اى غنچه تر شكر در اولبلر ممسك مكرر ..." ; [ghazals] "ازلدن شاه عشقك بنده فرمانيوز جانا محبت ملكنك سلطان عاليشانيوز جانا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collected poems of the celebrated Turkish poet, Baki Efendi (d.1600), opening with kaside in praise of Sultan Süleyman (opening on p.12 in Bâḳî dîvânı : tenkitli basım, Sabahattin Küçük, ed. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1994) and closing with Persian verses (compare p.462 in Küçük edition). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 678Origin: As appears in colophon at close of opening section (p.57), copied by Muḥammad al-Amīn (Mehmet Emin) with transcription completed 1176 [1762 or 3].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From front flyleaf and spine label, "IL 123a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (repeated square with dots pattern in contrasting blue and white forming a fish scale effect) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings/doublures in block-printed paper (repeated 8-petaled flower in purple with yellow and pink circle background accents) ; sewn in dull pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and cream, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, upper cover detaching, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) under crown and name (see p.26, 27, etc.) ; 'gold'-flecked ; break-through at frame in leaf carrying pp.57-58.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying title in red "ديوان باقى افندى رحمة الله عليه" surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in lavender, pink, orange-red, gold, and red on fields of blue and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with orange-red accents and all set in a well of lavender with blue crosses ; another illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on p.68 echoes the first, consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche carrying title in red "ديوان باقى افندى رحمة الله عليه رحمة واسعة" flanked by floral motifs in orange-red, white, lavender and gold on fields of blue and gold, surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in light blue, lavender, pink, white, orange-red, gold, and red on fields of blue and gold, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with gold and red accents and all set in a well of pink with blue crosses; written area and two columns within surrounded by gold frame ; keywords, some headings and catchwords rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; at least two elegant, medium hands ; sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, characteristic letterforms ; final leaves (from p.312) in more of a naskh-nastaʻlīq, slightly more compact, more highly ligatured and partially seriffed with slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in roughly 12 lines of verse per page, on the diagonal in two columns with each hemistich to a diagonal line for roughly 24 hemistiches per page ; headings not on the diagonal ; written area divided to two columns to set off the verses.Collation: IV (8), V (18), VII+1 (33), 13 V(163), VI (175) ; chiefly quinions ; several leaves ruled but left blank between opening section and following (pp.58-66), p. 67 carries text that has been crossed out, final leaves also ruled but left blank (pp.345-348) ; catchwords present (rubricated) ; in mid to latter quires, foliation visible in lower outer corner of the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (inlcudes back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كتبه العبد الضعيف المذنب الفقير محمد الامين غفر الله ذنوبه سنه ۱۱۷٦"Explicit: "افرين صد افرين اول طبع كوهر باشنه"Incipit: "بحمد الله شرف بولدى ينه ملك سليمانى جلوس اتدى سعادت تحتنه اسكندر ثانى ..."Title from headpieces at openings on p.2 and p.68.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the collected poems of the celebrated Turkish poet, Baki Efendi (d.1600).
Title from caption.Written in slightly broken dīvānī script, in two columns, 23 lines par page, in black ink. Rubrics, numerical dates in the chronogram section in red. Nābī's name occasionally red overlined in poem text. Catchwords.Boards covered with partially torn paper cover. Leather on edges and spine.25.3 x 15 cm (18 x 8.2 cm).Ownership statements on f. 1r signed Muṣṭafá Jamīl and Muḥammad Rifʻat ibn Muṣṭafá Jamīl and one seal in the name of Bandah Muḥammad Amīn.A note on fly leaf 1: "ديوان نابي باخط مستقيم زاده افندى."According to a note on f. 1r, copy completed in Ṣafar 1162 AH [1749 AD] in the hand of Müstaqīm-zāde [Süleymān] Efendi.MS Turk 5. 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. 683Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggests 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From verso of front flyleaf "IL 362" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Boards covered in dark purple cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in paper printed with floral / landscape design in shades of blue, tan, olive green, and white ; upper and lower covers carry embossed central ornament (oval scrollwork design) ; raised bands on spine, accented with stamped (turquoise-colored onlays) bands and floral motifs ; sewn in white thread, five stations, stab sewn as well ; stuck-on endbands in black and yellow ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and staining.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of crown above grapes (see p.20, 24, etc.) alternating with "P S" (see p.22, 26, etc.), thin though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream to beige in color ; some foxing, staining and tide lines.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.10 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by lavender floral motifs surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with swirling floral vegetal motifs in lavender, pink, salmon, white, etc. on a gold ground, entire piece surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red and set in a well of pink with red accents ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame, elsewhere written area (including margin) surrounded by red rule-border ; keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke over keywords) rubricated ; grid of table of contents outlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs on incipit and facing page ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; two elegant Turkish hands ; opening two works in an elegant nastaʻlīq (talik), characteristically serifless with effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, letterforms characteristic of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; final work in another nastaʻlīq (talik) similar to the first hand but with greater effect of words descending to baseline, thicker line and exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV (8), V (18), V+1 (29), 23 V(259), i ; chiefly quinions ; fol.110-111 and 112-113 bound in reverse order ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes flyleaves).Incipit: [Fetava-yi Ali Efendi] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله كتاب الطيبين الطاهرين الطهارة [الطيبين الطاهرين كتاب الطهارة] زيد جنب ايكن ذكر وتسبيح والصلوة على النبى ايتمك جائز اولورمى الجواب اولور ..." ; [Tarjīḥ al-bayānāt] ; "الحمد لله عظيم البرهان وعميم الاحسان ... فان افقر عباد الله السبحان عبد السيد الرحمن بن سليمان الشهير بخصالى بين الاجناب والاخوان قد اختصر هذا الرسالة بحسب الامكان في الكتب المعتبرة البيان ..." ; [Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا خاتم النبيين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين اما بعد سعادتلى وفضيلتلى ومروتلى سلطانم حضرتلرينه عرض داعى منشالرى بو در كه بوندن اقدم مرحوم سيخ الاسلام ... حضرت ابو السعود ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.7. p.519-520 : [assorted excerpts].6. p.504-p.518 : [Maruzat-ı Ebussuud] / Ebussuud Efendi.5. p.482-p.503 : Tarjīḥ al-bayānāt / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulaymān, al-shahīr bi-Khilāṣī.4. p.478-p.481 : [blank].3. p.10-p.477 : Fetava-yi Ali Efendi / Ali Efendi Çatalcalı.2. p.8-p.9 : [blank].1. p.3-p.7 : [added contents listing and table of contents].Fine copy of the collection of legal decisions (fetvas) by Ali Efendi (d.1692), followed by Tarjīḥ al-bayānāt, a work of fiqh in Arabic by Hisâlî Abdurrahman Çelebî bin Süleyman bin Eyüp Sârûhânî (d.1676) and Maruzat-ı Ebussuud, a collection of legal decisions (fetvas) issued by Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Ebussuud Efendi, d.1574) and sanctioned by Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 68Origin: As appears in colophon on p.772, transcription finished 29 Rabīʻ II 1125 [ca. 25 May 1713].Accompanying materials: Numerous inserts have been paginated including a few documents, scraps carrying notes or glosses, an entire bifolium from another manuscript, etc. ; several half-sheets, mainly blank, have been sewn in (see pp.147-148, pp.199-200, pp.475-476, etc.).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 135. Legal decisions of Muh. Ata Allah."Binding: Limp dark brown leather (unusual grain) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-tooled floral motifs for the central ornament, border and cornerpieces where they resemble carnations ; sewn in a red thread, two stations, though sewing often gone ; endbands entirely gone apart from traces of primaries ; in extremely poor condition with significant abrasion, moisture damage, shrinkage (lower cover in particular, which is quite ill-fitting), losses of spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 26-28 mm. apart ; flower (?) watermark ; much staining ; moisture and or oil damage ; burn (acidic?) to edges.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red ; written area in first few quires surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; bold Turkish hand ; sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, many sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes, exaggerated contrast in line thickness between horizontal and vertical strokes ; single quire near the end of the text (pp.623-642) supplied in a different hand, being quite a neat Ottoman naskh.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), VI (18), 34 V(358), V-8 (360), IV (368) ; chiefly quinions ; third quire from last appears to be missing (between pp.752-753, compare catchwords and foliation) ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaf and inserts, skips two pages each between pp.19-20, pp.109-110, pp.239-240).Colophon: "Scribal", rectangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب في شهر ربيع الاخر في ٢٩ سنة خمس وعشرين ومائة والف "Explicit: "حد قديم نه در الجواب برامردركه اولنى بيلور اولميه حد القديم ما لا يحفظه القران من محيط البرهاني في كتاب ما يمنع عنه الانسان ما لا يمنع. تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله واصحابه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين تم الكتاب"Incipit: "حمد وسپاس وشكر بى قياس خداى لا يزالى [كذا] لا يزاله كه اختراع كرده انواع انسان"Title from inscription on incipit page (p.18).Ms. codex.Well-annotated and quite early copy of the collection of fatwás of Minkarizade Yahya Efendi compiled by Ataullah Mehmet Efendi (d.1715).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 69Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.268b (p.537), copied ("ḥarrarahu...") by Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Bāyazīd al-Qaramānī. Transcription finished 4 Muḥarram 1149 [ca. 15 May 1736].Accompanying materials: Slip carrying notes between pp.214-215 (not paginated).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 150. Legal decisions of Abd al-Ghani."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap, flap now lost) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla with floral vegetal composition ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; endbands in light blue and cream, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, loss of flap, upper cover detaching, etc. ; repairs in brown leather.Support: European laid paper of several types ; early quires in a European paper having 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28-30 mm. apart (horizontal), horn (?) watermark ; other quires in another thinner European paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart, scrollwork with pedestal watermark and "A C" countermark ; some leaves in still another European paper with 14 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart, watermark with grapes ; not heavily burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, sigla, and occasional notabilia (side-heads) rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of discs in red ; written area surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; characteristically sans serif with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, occasional sweeping descenders and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 V(20), VI (32), 15 V(182), V+2 (194), 7 V(264), 2 IV(280) ; chiefly quinions ; final quire following treatise of Abū al-Suʻūd mainly left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (begins with ۲۹٦ on opening folio of text/fol.2a/p.5) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaf, skips two pages between pp.505-506, skips p.536).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "حرره الفقير اليه سبحانه وتعالى احمد المدعو بمولانا ابن رجب [؟] بن بايزيد القرمانى رحمهم الله عليهم وعلى سائر الاقرباء والاصدقاء سنة تسع واربعين ومائة والف في اليوم الاربع من محرم الحرام"Explicit: "حد قديم نه در الجواب برامردركه اولنى بيلور اولميه حد القديم ما لا يحفظه القران من محيط البرهاني في كتاب ما يمنع عنه الانسان ما لا يمنع. تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب"Incipit: "باب الاجازة المؤجلة و المعجلة ... اقجه بدل [؟] مقابله سنده فراغ وتسليم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.4. fol.273a-fol.280b : [all but one leaf carrying an excerpt blank].3. fol.268b-fol.272b : Maruzat-ı Ebussuud / Abū al-Suʻūd.2. fol.2a-fol.268b : [Fetava-yı Ataullah] / Minkarizade Yahya Efendi and Ataullah Mehmet Efendi.1. fol.1b : [table of contents].Despite spine and edge titles, appears to be an odd second volume of the collection of legal decisions (fetvas) of Minkarizade Yahya Efendi (d.1678) compiled by Ataullah Mehmet Efendi (d.1715), beginning in the latter part of Kitāb al-ijāzāt. Followed by Maruzat-ı Ebussuud, the collection of legal decisions (fetvas) issued by Abū al-Suʻūd al-ʻImādī (Ebussuud Efendi, d.1574) and sanctioned by Sultan Süleyman I (r.1520-1566).
Document issued in the name of Abdülhamid I for Said Osman to assume the post of Imam in place of his father, Ibrahim Osman in the Selatin Aghlou mosque in Smyrna with the living that comes along with the post.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 387Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; decoration, hand, paper, etc. suggest 16th century. Ownership statement at close on p.553 referring to Cığalzade Yusuf Sinan Paşa (d.1604) as vezir would seem to indicate a rough terminus ante quem of 1583-1596, i.e. the time of his vezirship prior to being appointed grand vezir.Former shelfmark: "359 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark maroon leather ; Type II binding (with flap), two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; doublures (board linings) in marbled paper (in pink, orange, and dark blue on white) with hinges in another marbled paper (in red, light blue and green on white) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (with black recessed onlays) and gold-painted scalloped mandorla in black and gold (filled with vegetal composition compare Déroche class. OAi 8) and incised and gold-painted pendants, as well as gold-tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps framed by fillets ; design continues with rosette and border on envelope flap ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and cream (or pale yellow), fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, quite indistinct) and faint irregular chain lines occasionally visible, cloudy formation, some inclusions, quite sturdy though fairly thin and transluscent, beige in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.(4) consisting of small rectangular piece carrying opening line in set off by gold cloud-bands, surmounted by large rectangular piece surrounded in a heavy border and filled with empty gold cartouche and accents evoking bookcover design overlaid with swirling floral vegetal pattern in red, blue, yellow, gold, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli and gold, surmounted by triangular piece or hasp set in a rectangular piece with same swirling floral vegetal pattern on fields of lapis lazuli and gold, all surmounted by a series of vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy frame in a series of gold, green, red and blue bands ; keywords of incipit and facing page in blue or chrysographed ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold band with outermost blue rule ; headings, keywords and some excerpts rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing in distinct dots.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; written area occasionally divided to two columns to set off poetry interspersed throughout.Collation: i, 34 IV(272), II+1 (277) ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf).Explicit: "تصدق قلوب بو ثوابي داخى موجب مزيد حسنات بيله لر تم"Incipit: "رب اشرح لى صدرى ويسر لى امرى واحلل عقدة من لسانى يفقهوا قولي يا رب ره عشقكده بنى شيدا قيل احكام عبادتك بكا اجرا قيل ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Fuzulî's rendering of the suffering of the prophets, particularly Imām Ḥusayn in the tragedy at Karbalāʼ, drawn from Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī's Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ, a Persian martyrology of ʻAlī and his family.
On writing (inshāʼ). An Arabic-Ottoman glossary of terms used in writing official and unofficial letters, followed by short lessons on composing different types of letters; a short arithmetic lesson and a list of the month names in Arabic conclude the work
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 859Origin: According to 'colophon' on p.344 (in a different hand that the bulk of the text), copied by Muḥammad Ḥusnī (Mehmet Husni). Date of transcription not specified ; paper, etc. would suggest late 18th century and waqf statement on 'title page' (p.1) provides a terminus ante quem of 1793.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with notes in hand of Eleazar Birnbaum, "Author: VĀHIB-i UMMĪ, also called VĀHIBĪ | Title: [? DĪVĀN] | Religious poetical works in Ottoman Turkish. The author is not well-known. His name is wrongly written VAHHĀB-i UMMĪ in a later hand on fly leaf. A waqf note dated 1107 AH (1696 AD) on fly leaf. The writing seems 16th-17th cent. E Birnbaum June 1964" -- b. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Wahhab i Ummi. Dīvān. Turkish MS. BMC. Turk. MSS. has Dīvān of Vāhibī in a MS. of mixed contents, & it may be the same person ; very uncertain. | n. f. anywhere"Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 8Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper board lining now in recycled paper (printed "waste") ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, now difficult to make out, with onlays gone to green where still present), pendant and cornerpieces, as well as tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with losses of onlays, abrasion, some staining, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; repair to spine in black cloth / textile (rebacked) ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20-21 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of lion rampant guardant (see p.12, 14, 24, etc.) and "G V" ["V G"] countermark (see p.15, 26, 32, etc., likely Valentino Galvani, see pp.88-89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan" and compare Eineder nos.986, 987, etc. though here with different lion motif), thin though sturdy, cream in color, well-burnished.Decoration: Written area (and divisions within) surrounded by double rule-border in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand in a bold line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, even free-standing alif, effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots ; fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: 16 V(160), VI (172), i (pasted to lower board lining) ; quinions followed by a senion ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, every other page, with pagination of remaining pages supplied much later during digitization (due to misplacement of bifolia when codex was paginated, skips from p.62 to 83 with leaves paginated 63-82 are now properly found between p.342-343).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كتبه الفقير الحقير محمد حسنى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Explicit: "واهب امى يو قلغنك وارلغندن سويلر سكا توحيد بكا شاهديز كشف اللهدن كلورز بيز"Incipit: "كوزك اوج جانله دكله منزه پادشاهم بن ..."Title from inscription accompanying waqf statement on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the dīvān of Vahib-i Ümmî (Vahibi, Vahhab-i Ümmî) Abdülvahab (d.1595).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 855Origin: As appears in colophon on p.624, bulk of manuscript (p.51 to close) copied by Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Fatḥ ibn Qāḍī Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad Rāzī (Hafız Ebülfatih b. Kadı Ziyaettin Mehmet Razi) with transcription completed 24 Shaʻbān 1000 [ca. 5 June 1592]. Replacement section (first three gatherings, through p.50) likely dates to early 19th century (ca. 1807-1830) as suggested by paper, hand, and decoration.Accompanying materials: a. Pink card with typed description "[Muḥammad ibn Suleimān, Fuẓulī, d. c. 1562] | Ḥadīqat al-suʻadāʼ. | Turkish. Ms." -- b. Bits of unused "gold" leaf found between pp.384-385 and 412-413 -- c. Pen shaving found between pp.508-509.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 4Binding: Pasteboards covered in a cut velvet printed with a colorful floral pattern incorporating boteh (بوته) and other designs (in shades of blue, red, yellow, and green on grounds of red, white and dark blue) with spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins in dark brown leather (textile faced, leather edged framed binding / frame covers) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in pink-tinted, gold-flecked laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled and gold-painted border ; fore edge flap carries gold-painted designs ; envelope flap also covered in cut velvet ; sewn in dark pink to mauve thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and white, fairly good condition ; overall in fair condition though upper cover fully detached, some staining and losses to textile, minor abrasion and staining of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, quite faint and indistinct) and occasional chain lines faintly visible, cloudy formation, inclusions and fibers visible, thin though quite sturdy, lightly burnished, dark cream to beige in color, some staining and tide lines ; replacement leaves of opening section (through p.50) in European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 29-30 mm. apart (horizontal) and watermarks of lion passant guardant (see p.6,7, 22, 32, 46, 50, etc.) and "AFG" (see p.4,9, 26, etc. i.e. Antonio et Fratelli Galvani, see pp.88-89 in Walz, "The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan" and compare Eineder nos. 997, 1003, etc. dated 1807), medium cream with a yellow hue, sturdy, and well-burnished ; flyleaves also in European laid paper.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of scalloped dome filled with floral vegetal composition in gold, set in a well of pink, blue and gold bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue ; written area throughout surrounded by a gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule ; textual dividers in the form of gold discs on incipit page ; keywords and headings rubricated (red inks of each section distinct).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; two elegant hands ; both serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, mainly closed counters, pointing in distinct or conjoined dots ; hand supplying replacement section at opening (pp.1-50) slightly finer, larger and more compact along the line with large, open and sometimes sweeping descenders, and exaggerated elongation of some horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 14 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1+1 (8), IV+1 (17), IV (25), IV-1 (32), 4 IV(64), III (70), 23 IV(254), III+1 (261), 6 IV(309), I+1 (312), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present, plainly visible in opening section (through p.50) but mainly cutoff in bulk of codex (p.50 to close) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب تحريرا فى چهار شنبه اربع وعشرين من شهر شعبان المعظم سنه الف كاتبه الفقير الحقير كثير التقصير حافظ ابو الفتح بن قاضى ضياء الدين محمد رازى غفر ذنوبهما"Explicit: "كل اى حال تكلمدن خبردار ترحم قيل تعرض اتمه زنهار"Incipit: "يا رب ره عشقنده بنى شيدا قيل احكام عبادتى بكا اجرا قيل ..."Title from inscription above headpiece at opening on p.2.Ms. composite codex.Elegant composite copy of Fuzulî’s rendering of the suffering of the prophets, particularly Imām Ḥusayn in the tragedy at Karbalāʼ, drawn from Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī’s Rawz̤at al-shuhadāʼ, a Persian martyrology of ʻAlī and his family.
Calendar dated 1226 A.H. showing lunar and solar month concordance; length of day and night in Istanbul; astronomical and chronological tables; marginal notes with comments and computational instructions; rules for finding the direction of the qiblah in Istanbul and surrounding areas.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 428Origin: As appears in colophon on p.242, copied by Ahmet bin İbrahim ül-Üsküdarî ( احمد بن ابراهيم الاسكدارى / Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Uskudārī ) with transcription completed in the latter part of Shawwāl 1090 [December 1679].Former shelfmark: "۱۲۳" in black ink on upper cover label ; "٦٥" in pencil on recto of front flyleaf ; "404 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "238" in pencil on 'title page' (p.7).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings and flyleaves (as well as lining of envelope flap) in pink silver-flecked paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (dark brown recessed onlays) and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. OAi 2) and pendants, as well as gold tooled and painted accents (rosettes and radiating strokes) and guilloché roll border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fair condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper cover fully detached, lifting of leather at fore edge flap, minor abrasion, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical or horizontal, somewhat indistinct) and occasional chain lines faintly visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, beige in color (lighter and darker shades).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.8, consisting of rectangular piece with central cartouche carrying title in white (partially effaced, reads "... قصيده المنفرجه الشريفه") on a gold ground flanked by floral motifs in red and gold and bordered in a turquoise band with white accents, surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) with swirling floral motifs in white, red, orange, pink, lavender, and light blue on a gold ground, set into a well of red, gold and heavy pink bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with floral accents ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy gold frame outlined by black fillets and set off by gold cloud-bands ; elsewhere written area surrounded by a narrower gold frame ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes and gold discs ; keywords rubricated ; illuminated tailpiece at close on p.242, consisting of swirling floral motifs in pink and gold flanking the text.Script: Naskh ; elegant Ottoman hand ; partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serif mainly on lām, effect of tilt to the left, open and closed counters, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in conjoined dots, fully vocalized.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 12 V(120), I (122), iii ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (includes inner flyleaves and skips two pages each between pp.103-104 and 205-206).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular and rectangular, reads "تمت القصيدة المباركة المسمى بالمنفرجه في اواخر شهر شوال من سهور سنه تسعين والف من هجرة من له العزة والشرف اللهم صل وسلم على شرف الخلق ... حرره العبد الحقير المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الرحيم البارى احمد بن ابراهيم الاسكدارى"Explicit: "وحضرت علينك رضى الله تعالى عنه مدحنه متعلق اولان بيتله تمام ايدوب ختم قلديسه زياده تحريره حاجت قلميوب بونك شرحى دخى بو محلده ختم اولوب نهايت بولدى الحمد لله على التمام والصلوة والسلام على رسوله افضل الانام ... والله هو الرؤف الرحيم وهو حسبى ونعم الوكيل غفرانك ربنا واليك النصير"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعل الصبر على اشتداد الازمة والاذى مفتاحا للفرج ... اما بعد بو جريدۀ لطيفۀ نك تأليف وتحريرنه هادى وبو قصيدۀ شريفۀ نك شرح وتفسيرنه باعث وبادى ... وبوكه حكم مندرجه في شرح منفرجه ديمكله نام ويردم ..."Title from opening matter on p.11.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Turkish commentary by İsmail Ankaravî Rasühî Dede (d.1632) on al-Qaṣīdah al-Munfarijah, an invocational poem by Ibn al-Naḥwī (d.1119).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 833Origin: As appears at close on p.281, dated 28 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1279 [ca. 17 May 1863].Binding: Boards covered in textured, coated black paper with red leather over spine and corners of boards (barely, not quite half-binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in printed 'marbled' paper (mainly in dark blue, pink and yellow) ; spine gold-stamped with vegetal designs and lines along ridges ; sewn in yellow thread, five stations, over cords ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc.Support: Machine laid paper (faux laid wove) with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "L J D," thin, transluscent, and quite well-burnished, tinted blue.Decoration: Headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rural scene with canon on rolling hills set in a crescent flanked by assorted arms / weapons ; keywords, section headings, numerals and other symbols rubricated ; numerous line-drawings and diagrams (in pencil and black and red inks) illustrating text.Script: Ruqʻah ; clear Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in as many as 23 lines per page, though varies considerably depending on number of diagrams, mathematical problems, etc. ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 14 V(140), I (142), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Incipit: "مقدمه علم حكمت طبيعيه علوم طبيعيه نك ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening (p.2).Ms. codex.Careful copy of an Ottoman physics (physical science or natural sciences, i.e. hikmet-i tabiiye) textbook of uncertain authorship.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 831Origin: Lacks dated colophon, though date 1257 [1841 or 2] appears in text (pp.16, 20, and 38) ; statement signed Emin Efendi and dated 1848 provides a terminus ante quem of 1848 ; paper, etc. certainly suggest 19th century.Binding: Marbled paper cover (mainly in blue and brown, single sheet, limp binding without boards) ; sewn in heavy dark blue to black thread, eight stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some abrasion, staining, tears losses, etc.Support: European laid paper (as well as a few bifolia in wove paper) ; mainly with 13-14 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical), beige, sturdy and well-burnished ; another type with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of arms / shield with crown above (see p.6, etc.).Decoration: Headings, keywords, numerals and other symbols rubricated ; written area of many pages surrounded by rule-border ; many diagrams and tables, as well as two colored illustrations showing ships at sea (see p.9 and p.11).Script: Ruqʻah ; fairly clear Turkish hand ; serifless with slight effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, highly ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, closed counters ; notes in several other hands.Layout: Highly variable, as written area often contains diagrams, tables or lines of arithmetic along with problem statement.Collation: XVIII (36) ; single gathering of 18 bifolia ; some leaves ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Carefully executed physics (physical sciences or natural sciences, i.e. hikmet-i tabiiye) notebook containing numerous sample problems (with problem statement, solution and any diagrams), tables and notes.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1008Origin: As appears in colophon on p.71, executed by Derviş İbrahim b. Hafız Halil with transcription completed 1129 [1716 or 17].Accompanying materials: "a. Two 5 x 7 catalog cards bearing above description of item. -- b. Letter, Warner G. Rice (Director, General Library, U of M) to Mr. Richard Ford of Detroit, 20 July 1951. In the letter Rice acknowledges receipt of a 16 July note from Ford which included a copy of a letter obtained by Ford from G. M. Meredith-Owens, Brit. Mus. Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, presumably authenticating (and describing?) the work in hand. Ford's letter may have asked what research institutions in the United States might be interested in acquiring the text. Rice writes: "There are several research institutions in the Unites States which have made some special attempts to collect materials on and about the Near East. Among these I suppose the most distinguished is Princeton, though a good deal has been done at the University of Chicago also. At the University of Michigan we have specialized for a long time in Coptic materials, but we are now extending our interests, especially through the activities of Professor Cameron, who has recently become head of our Department of Near Eastern Languages...The General Library is now making rather extensive purchases of materials in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. Last fall we acquired a large collection 19 of such materials and shall doubtless continue to build in this field. I can assure you that if you were to offer the Arabic manuscript which Mr. Owens describes to the University of Michigan we should be very glad indeed to have it." -- c. Note on pink slip of paper in handwriting of Harriet Jameson: "From Mr. Wagman 12-22-61. Is this the missing manuscript? No. In his vault. Keep anyway." -- d. Small Univ. of Mich. campus mail envelope addressed "Islamic MS," containing small fragment of a book binding: filigree cut gilded leather on cloth" - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993, only cards carrying description still with manuscript.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 157Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures (board linings) and interior of flap in spring green textile (possibly silk), flyleaves and hinges in pink-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, reminiscent of Déroche class. OAi 10) with gold-tooled rosette accents and guilloché roll border ; sewn in dull pink thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with lifting and losses of leather (particularly at pine, spine lining exposed), abrasion, staining, minor delamination of boards, minor pest damage, etc.Support: European laid paper with roughly 14 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 19 mm. (vertical) and no watermarks visible (perhaps lost to trimming), beige in color, sturdy though thin and transluscent, well-sized and burnished ; flyleaves in a different European laid paper.Decoration: Fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.8 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral accents, surmounted by dome or semi-circular piece filled with swirling floral decoration in gold with black outline, white, red and orange-red on fields of gold and dark blue (cobalt), all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue and set in a well of gold, red and blue bands with white crosses ; additional illuminated headpieces at section openings throughout the manuscript ; written area surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets ; textual dividers in the form of gold rosettes with red and blue accents.Script: Naskh ; clear, well-formed Ottoman hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing mainly in conjoined dots, extensively vocalized (mainly Arabic passages).Layout: Written mainly in 9-11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iii, 3 V(30), II (34), iii ; almost exclusively quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "كتبه اضعف الضعفاء درويش ابراهيم ابن حافظ خليل حامدا لله تعالى ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين سنة تسع وعشرين ومائة والف من هجرة النبوية"Explicit: "شفاعتلرين احسان وصحبتلريله شرفياب ايليه امين يا معين"Incipit: "اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد هر حمد وافرين كه ازلدن ابده دك موجود ومعلوم اولدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.7. p.67-p.71 : Nat-i Damad-i Resulullah [or Hilye-yi Hazret-i Ali].6. p.64-p.66 : Nat-i Osman [or Hilye-yi Osman].5. p.61-p.64 : Nat-i Faruk yani Ömer [or Hilye-yi Ömer ].4. p.59-p.61 : Nat-i Yar-i Gar-i Sıddık [or Hilye-yi Ebübekir].3. p.16-58 : [Hilye-yi şerif].2. p.13-p.16 : [Asmāʼ al-Nabī].1. p.8-p.12 : [elucidation of the Fātiḥah in Turkish].A fine specimen of Ottoman calligraphy comprising devotional material in Arabic and Turkish, opening with a Turkish elucidation of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, followed by the names of the Prophet, description of the Prophet's characteristics (or hilye text, opening with the text related by ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib) with Turkish elucidation, and similar descriptions for each of the four rightly guided Caliphs (Çihâryâr-i Güzin).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 368Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. suggest late 18th or possibly early 19th century.Former shelfmark: "346 T. D. M. [T. Dell ?]" inscribed in pencil on recto of opening leaf (p.1) ; "243" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red brown leather with red leather over spine ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in red laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class OSd 1) with pendants and tooled border consisting of a heavy gold band in a series of s-shape stamps flanked by two thin gold fillets inside and outside ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and yellow thread in a chevron pattern ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and lifting of leather on the hinges.Support: European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (mainly vertical), chain lines (horizontal or vertical) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, and watermark only faintly visible at gutter (very tightly bound, see p.244, 298, 300, etc.) ; well-burnished ; thin and crisp.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of Hulasatü't-tebyin on p.4 consisting of a rectangular piece with cartouche outlined in gold carrying the ḥamdalah in black ink, surmounted by a gold rectangular piece with a cartouche carrying the title in red ink, itself surmounted by a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) filled with floral and vegetal designs in orange, red, pale purple, blue, yellow, and pale green, all set in a well consisting of thick orange and blue bands and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; simple illuminated headpieces at opening of second work (p.246) and third work (p.268) each consisting of a scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) with floral motifs and surmounting tīgh all in gold ; written area surrounded by a thick gold band outlined in black with outer fillets of black and red ; textual dividers in gold discs and red inverted commas ; Qurʼānic excerpts overlined in red.Script: Naskh ; neat, compact Turkish hand in a thin line ; serifless with slight inclination to the left, curvilnear descenders, kāf mashqūqah preferred, Qurʼānic passages vocalized ; excerpt on pp.243-244 in a different hand.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: VI (12), 14 V(304) ; opening senion followed by quinions ; leaves between works left blank ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloging.Colophon: [Hulasatü't-tebyin] Authorial, reads "غب هذا اشبو خلاصة التبيين في تفسير سورة يس ايله نام زد اولان كتاب كزين تاريخ رنتم و تزبار عقبنده كى عدد تامك اول ثلث ثانيسنك آخرى سنه سنده بعون الله الملك العلام رسيدۀ حسن ختام اولدى م" ; [Tefsir Âyetü'l-Kürsî] Authorial, reads "لقد كمل ما نمقته في هذه الكراسه بالاعتماد علي اقوا من هو الراقي الي رتبه الاستاد في بلده هي صيغه المصدر لفعل الجهاد ... تو ضيحه ان تاريخ الختام هى الغاية الحاوية ... وبهذا النمط يعلم المدد خذ هذا التوضيح وكن به فريحا م" ; [Nasriye] Authorial, reads "اشبو اسم نصريه ايله مسمى اولان رسالۀ فاخره تاريخ رسول اكرم ونبى محترم صلى الله عليه و سلم حضرتلرينك الف ثانيسنك ثانئ مات عشره سنك جزؤ اخير عشرات خامسه سنك اجزاي اثلاث اربعه سندن ثلث ثالثنك ثانئ احاد اسبوعنك ارباع سته سنك اخر ربع ثانيسي كه يوم احدك قبيل وقت عصرنده تمام و بو كونه توريخ نوين ايله رسيدۀ حسن تدوين اولدى والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على رسوله الامين وآله وصحبه اجمعين آمين تم"Explicit: [Hulasatü't-tebyin] "و عنايت ايليوب انوار قلب قران ايله قلوبمزي منور ايليه بجاه طمويس عليه افضل صلوات الله الملك المعين" ; [Tefsir-i Âyetü'l-Kürsî] "وصلى الله على من هو حبيبه ورسوله وعلي الال والاصحاب والتابعين رضوان الله تعالى عليهم اجمعين" ; [Nasriye] "بيوريلورسه سر افتخارم فلك الافلاكه برابراولمق امر مقدردر وما ذلك على الله بعزيز ... اسئلك اللهم غبطا لاهبطا"Incipit: [Hulasatü't-tebyin] "سبحان من سلخ من ليل البشرية نهار الروحانية ثم قدر لقمر القلب منازل العرفان مستفيضا من شمس نور الرحمانية ..." ; [Tefsir-i Âyetü'l-Kürsî] "حمد بيقياس وبيحد وشكر وسپاس لا يعد من الازل الى الابد اول آفريده كار ششن جهت وزمين و آسمان ... بعد هذا بو عبد حقير كثير العصيان محمد اسعد ناتوان استدعاى اخوان خلان ايله اعظم آيات فرقان عظيم الشان اولان آية كرسينك تفسيرينى وفضائل جليله وجزيله سنى لسان تركى ايله تعبير وتحرير وحسب الطاقة تقريره شروع وابتدا ايلدم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ..." ; [Nasriye] "حمد وثناء بيقياس وهزار وهزار [كذا] درود وسپاس پاروچۀ آفريدن و تكيونده طينت ستوده هيئت ادمى ... بو نعمت وعنايتى تحديث ايجون بدايت قرآن كريمدن نهايتنه دكين ذكر كروۀ جناب رب الارباب اولان آيات نصر وظفرى مع قلة البضاعة وقصر الباعة جمع وترقيم واسم نصريه ايله تسميه وتوسيم ايدوب ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening (p.4).Ms. codex.6. p.268-p.302 : Nasriye / Ebu İshak Efendizade Mehmet Esat Efendi.5. p.262-p.267 : [blank].4. p. 246-p.261 : [Tefsir-i Âyetü'l-Kürsî] / Ebu İshak Efendizade Mehmet Esat Efendi.3. p.245 : [blank].2. p.243-p.244 : [excerpt from Tafsīr Rūḥ al-bayān of Bursalı İsmail Hakkı].1. p.4-p.242 : Hulasatü't-tebyin fi tefsir-i Suret Yasin / Ebu İshak Efendizade Mehmet Esat Efendi.Elegant copy of a collection (mecmua / majmūʻah) of three works of tafsīr by the Ottoman şeyhülislâm Mehmet Esat Efendi (d.1752 or 3) son of Șeyhülislâm Ebu İshak İsmâil. Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 440Origin: Dates in dated pieces range from 1006 [1597 or 8] to 1252 [1843 or 4]. Some pieces possibly earlier. Binding late 19th or early 20th century, likely produced in Yıldız Palace workshop and certainly not earlier than 1882 when the arma was finalized by Sultan Abdülhamit II.Former shelfmark: "208" inscribed in pencil on opening panel.Binding: Heavy boards covered in red leather ; Western style binding ; interior of boards (and facing panels) lined with white, textured paper (satin-like pattern) ; upper and lower covers carry central panel gold-stamped with the Ottoman arms (upper cover) or crescent and star (lower cover) at center, outlined in gold-tooled stars and bordered in gold-stamped (with olive green leather onlays) decorative panels in vegetal designs with crescents gold-stamped on olive green leather onlays at the four corners ; board edges heavily beveled and gold-tooled ; edges of panels gold-painted ; sewn in heavy pink cord ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of onlays, etc.Support: Calligraphic pieces on assorted laid papers, well-burnished ; some decorative papers, tinted, marbled or silhouette ; each mounted in heavy pasteboards (panels) covered in dark green coated and textured paper (resembling reptile hide) with edges gold-painted.Decoration: Varies by piece ; use of gold and colored pigments in frames, decorative borders, textual dividers and accents (mainly rosettes).Script: Naskh (nesih), thuluth (sülüs), tawqīʻ (tevki'), and nastaʻlīq (talik), varying by piece ; superb Ottoman and Persian calligraphic hands.Layout: Varies greatly by piece.Collation: Twenty-one heavy panels (pasteboards) attached via red cloth stubs (supported by further board).Title from upper cover.Ms. codex.42. fol.21b : [blank].41. fol.21a : piece in divani signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Recai (كتبه الحاج محمد رجائى رئيس الكتاب سابقا) and dated 1186 [1772 or 3].40. fol.20b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.39. fol.20a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated (with area left unfilled, perhaps for colophon or icazet text).38. fol.19b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.37. fol.19a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.36. fol.18b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.35. fol.18a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.34. fol.17b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Ḥusayn ʻAlī (العبد حسين على كاتب) and undated (set in a border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).33. fol.17a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Ḥusayn ʻAlī (العبد حسين على كاتب) and undated (set in a border of silhouette paper with animal motifs).32. fol.16b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with bird motifs).31. fol.16a : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī (كتبه المذنب احمد الحسينى) and undated (set in border of silhouette paper with bird motifs).30. fol.15b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.29. fol.15a : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Yesari Mehmet Esad Efendi (d.1798) (الفقير محمد اسعد اليسارى) and undated.28. fol.14b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Ahmet (مشقه المذنب الخاظئ السيد حافظ احمد المعروف بتوفيقى) and dated 1196 [1781 or 2].27. fol.14a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher “جزائري” and dated 1107 [1692 or 3].26. fol.13b : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.25. fol.13a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh (opening of müfredat exercises), undated.24. fol.12b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Kasim (محمد قاسم) and undated.23. fol.12a : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Şevki Efendi (d.1887) (كتبه العبد الضعيف السيد محمد شوقى) and undated.22. fol.11b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher İmamzade [possibly Eğrikapılı Mehmet Râsim Efendi (d.1756) who early in his career signed İmamzade] (كتبه امام زاده) and undated.21. fol.11a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated (likely accompanying piece on fol.11b).20. fol.10b : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.19. fol.10a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).18. fol.9b : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with floral motifs).17. fol.9a : unsigned piece in nastaʻlīq, undated (set in border of silhouette paper with dragon motifs).16. fol.8b : piece in thuluth and naskh approaching tawqīʻ signed by the calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi (d.1698) (مشقه الفقير عثمان المشتهر بحافظ القرآن) and dated 1098 [1686 or 7].15. fol.8a : unsigned piece in naskh, undated.14. fol.7b : piece in nastaʻlīq signed by the calligrapher Muhammad (محمد) and undated.13. fol.7a : piece in thuluth and signed by the calligrapher Afif (كتبه عفيف) [possibly İbrahim Afif, d.1767] and undated.12. fol.6b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Salıh Namık [?] (سوده صالح نامق) and undated.11. fol.6a : piece in thuluth and naskh with icazetname signed by the calligrapher Şekerzade Mehmet Efendi (d.1753) authorizing the student who executed the piece (اجزت لصاحب هذه القطعة الشريفة وضع الكتبة فما كتبه وانا الفقير السيد محمد المعروف بشكر زاده) and dated 1155 [1742 or 3].10. fol.5b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Hafız Ahmet (حرره السيد حافظ احمد) and dated 1197 [1782 or 3].9. fol.5a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.8. fol.4b : unsigned frontispiece with excerpt (اول از بالای کرسی بر زمین آمد سخن او دگر ...) in thuluth at center of shamsah, undated.7. fol.4a : unsigned piece in thuluth and naskh, undated.6. fol.3b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Ahmet Çelebi (احمد چلبی) dated 1006 [1597 or 8].5. fol.3a : unsigned composite piece in nastaʻlīq of different sizes, undated.4. fol.2b : piece in thuluth and naskh signed by the calligrapher Mahmut Celalettin (Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi d.1829, نمقه الفقير محمود المعروف بجلال الدين) and undated.3. fol.2a : piece in naskh and thuluth signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Şefik Bey (d.1879) (كتبه محمد شفيق عن خلفا الحاج مصطفى عزت) and signed 1259 [1843 or 4].2. fol.1b : piece in nastaʻlīq (talik) signed by the calligrapher Mehmet Zeynelâbidin Haşimi (حرره المذنب محمد زين العابدين الهاشمى) and undated.1. fol.1a : [blank].Exquisite album of assorted calligraphic specimens (40 kıt'alar / pieces), likely assembled and bound for Sultan Abdülhamit II (r.1876-1909). Contents briefly addressed by Muhittin Serin in "Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’ndeki Bazı Kütüphanelerde Bulunan İslam El Yazma Eserleri ve Michigan Üniversitesi II. Abdülhamid Koleksiyonu." Contributions to the cataloguing from Marion Frenger, Mamoun Sakkal, and Irvin Schick.
Treatise on mysticism in question-and-answer form. Treatise attributes origins of the headgear to the Prophet Muḥammad.Missing pages at the end.17.2 x 11.5 cm (13.1 x 7.5 cm).Written in naskh script, in one column, 17 lines per page, in black and red, framed within a red line.With: Menâkıb-ı Mevlânâ Celâleddin (ff. 1v-10r) ; Şerh-i Cezîretü'l-mesnevî / Ahmed Meknî (ff. 10v.-100r) ; Hall-i ebyât-ı müşkilât-ı Celâleddin Rûmî (ff. 101r-107r).According to the colophon (f. 100r), copy completed on 21 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1243 AH [October 11, 1827 AD] in the hand of Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Qayṣarī.MS Turk 53. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 384Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, decoration, etc. suggest 18th century. Statement in red ink accompanied by dated seal impression on 'title page' (p.3) provides a terminus ante quem of 1846 (i.e. 12 Jumādá II 1262 = ca. 8 May 1846).Former shelfmark: "584 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges barely visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in an elegant marbled paper (mainly in red and dark blue or green) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, compare Déroche class. NSd 7) and pendants, as well as a tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps evoking guilloché roll in gold ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in deep pink and pale yellow (or cream), good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with flap fully detached, some staining, minor abrasion, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European (likely Persian) and European laid paper of several types ; first half of codex mainly in non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (mainly vertical, fairly distinct) and occasional chain lines visible, quite thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; second half of the codex in several European laid papers, mainly with raisin watermarks including paper with 11-12 laid lines per cm. (mainly horizontal), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (mainly vertical) and watermarks of grapes under name and crown (see p.546, 552, etc.) and names (see p.542, 550, etc.) and paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes under crown (see p.714, etc.) ; flyleaves in European laid paper (watermark of lion guardant visible in front flyleaf, p.2) ; significant breakthrough at frames (border at inner margin toward gutter in practically every leaf in the first four gatherings) ; leaf carrying p.471-472 delaminating.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.4, consisting of scalloped w-shaped piece with central gold cartouche (carrying the title in white "هذا شرح وصاف") surrounded by swirling floral vegetal composition in gold, pink, light blue, white, orange, red, etc. on a pale gold ground, surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in dark blue with gold accents, entire piece set in a well consisting of bands of red with white accents, white with dark blue accents, and heavy gold interlace with red and white accents ; other similar illuminated headpieces at the openings of other sections on p.262 and 444 ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by heavy "gold" frame defined by black fillets, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower gold frame black fillets ; keywords rubricated ; passages being commented upon (matn of Tārīkh-i Vaṣṣāf) overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 34 V(340), IV (348), VI (360), IV+1 (369), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; page between first and second volume left blank (p.261) ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink, recto of opening leaf of each from the second ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner front flyleaf and skips two pages each between pp.83-84, 103-104, 353-354).Explicit: "العباد شايان اولدوغى كبى ومثل هذا التسهيل قد سهل الله سبحانه وتعالى علينا ما رمناه من المقاصد الغالية والحمد كل الحمد لربنا رب المبدعات من العشرة العالية ... ونستغفره ونتوب اليه ونسأله العفو والعاقبة انه هو البر الرحيم تم"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي رفع سبع طباق الخضراء بغير عمد ترونها واوحى بمقتضى حكمته في كل سماء امرها ... وبعد دل ارباب ذوى اللب والالباب ... كه بوندن اقدم شهرت يافتۀ اشتهار آفتاب عالمتاب اولان تاريخ وصاف عبارات مشكله وفقرات معضله ولغات عربيۀ مختلفه يعنى عربيه وفارسيه وچاغتالى ومغلى وخوارزمى ومصطلحات علوم صرف ونحو وعروض ومسيقى وايقاع وهندسه وحساب ومنطق وحكمت وكلام وساير مصطلح غريب اوزرينه ..."Title from illuminated headpiece at opening (p.4).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the commentary by Bagdatlı Nazmizade Hüseyin Murtaza Efendi (d.1721 or 2?) on Vaṣṣāf’s Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-aʻṣār or Tārīkh-i Vaṣṣāf, a history of the Īlkhāns intended as a continuation of ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malik Juvaynī’s (d.1283) Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā (Jahān-gushāy) and renowned for its form and style. Several volumes in one. Contributions to the cataloguing from Eren Miyasoğlu and Hossein Mottaghi.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 401Origin: As appears in colophon, copy executed by Mehmet Vasfi (i.e. Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi, d. 1831) student of Ebubekir Raşit Efendi (d.1782). Date of transcription not specified, though date in watermark suggests ca. 1772 ; decoration, hand, etc. are consistent with late 18th century dating.Former shelfmark: "469 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark royal blue leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in sky blue surface-dyed, textured and coated paper (embossed with scrolling vegetal designs) ; upper and lower covers carry central gold-flecked cartouche with gold-painted cornerpieces and stamped borders of gold defined by gold fillets ; sewn in pale yellow thread, two stations ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion ; repairs in blue Japanese paper.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of griffin [?], "FIN DE LA SONE EN DAUPHINE" and "1772" ; well-sized and burnished, thin and crisp though sturdy, buff (dull yellow) in color.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening consisting of a composition of vegetal forms (resembling plumes) in white with shades of lavender, blue, pink, etc. accents surmounted by floral forms in shades of pink with green leaves, all on a gold ground set in a well defined by red and yellow interlace ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by a heavy gold frame with inner and outer gold bands defined by black fillets and outermost blue fillet ; written area elsewhere surrounded by a narrower gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost blue fillet ; textual dividers in the form of illuminated rosettes with red and blue accents ; keywords and headings rubricated ; circles (or hāʼ evoking familiar rhomboid dots) and lines indicating size, proportion and angle for the large sample letters entered in the margins are also rubricated.Script: Naskh (nesih) and thluth (sülüs) ; exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy executed by Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi (d. 1831).Layout: Written in 9 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 2 V(20), IV (28), i ; two quinions followed by a quaternion ; catchwords present.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "كتبه اضعف الكتاب محمد الوصفى المعروف بحافظ القرآن من تلاميذ ابو بكر راشد افندى غفر الله لهما"Explicit: "وبرى معكوسه در راجعه داخى ديرلر بونلر كبى""Incipit: "حمد بى عد وثناء لا يعد اول خالق اللوح والقلمه كه كاف ونون ايله جمله كائنات وممكناتى وار ... تراشيدن قلم وشناختن اولا حسن خط يازنلر قلمك اعلاسين ومركبك رعناسين وكاغدك زيباسين كورمك كركدر ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Exquisite copy of a treatise on calligraphy (addressing chiefly nesih and sülüs) attributed to Tacbeyzade [Taçbeyzade, Tacizade, Taczade] Mehmet bin Tacettin [Mehmed b.Taceddin] (d.1587) executed by the calligrapher Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi (d. 1831). The text opens with preparing the pen and the origins of the scripts and their names (returning to Ibn al-Bawwāb and Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣamī with some sayings attributed to them), followed by the müfredat (single and double letters) and the mürekkebat (words and phrases of more than two letters). Sample letters marked with the proper proportions and angles are provided in the margins.