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).