مناقب درويش خاكي.

Title:

مناقب درويش خاكي.

Creator:

Hâkî Mehmet Efendi, -1617

Date:

1600-1619

Description:

Abstract: 'An autobiographical travel book by a Nakşibendi derviş Hâkî Dede, containing descriptions of places through which he travelled and accounts of famous personages from his time, including the Özbek Han Abdullah Han (1580-1598) and Persian Şah Abbas (1587-1629). The work is chiefly in verse, with a few sections of prose. Given that the work contains a section on Istanbul, and Hâkî Dede arrived to Istanbul "towards the end of Mehmed III\'s reign" (1595-1603) (see S̲üreyyāAbstract: Sicill-i ʻOs̲mānīAbstract: IIAbstract: p. 264)Abstract: the work must have been composed between ca. 1600 and 1617Abstract: and an ownership date of 1618-19 (see ownership note below) indicates that the copy was made before 1619Abstract: so possibly while Hâkî Dede was still alive.'Binding note: Brown leather over pasteboard with blind fillets around borders of covers.Ms. codex.Title from fol. 1a.Ms. additions: a biographical note on fol. 3a on Hâkî Dede, in which he is identified as a Nakşibendi, and we are told that he travelled to India, China, the Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Baghdad; an inscription reading "Bende Muslimân" on fol. 1a; two couplets of poetry on fol. 2a, signed Mehmet.13 lines per page. Written in an elegant medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ink for headings. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, mostly in two columns separated with two lines in gold and black ink. Fol. 4b-5a have double gold-leaf frame, with margins and the space between the columns decorated with floral pattern painted in gold ink. Fol. 4b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with blue, red, orange, purple and white watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks.Incipit: حمد لله اول خدايي بر كمال ويردي غالم خلقينه رزق ونوالExplicit: قبول اولسون دعامز پاك اوله دين تمآم اولدي ولا الضالين آمين

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type:

Headpieces (layout features)
Illuminated manuscripts
Poetry
Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Voyages and travels—1450-1800—Poetry—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Ownership signature on fol. 1a by Nasuh Aǧa, a çavuş at the Imperial Palace (in Istanbul), dated 1028 (1618-19).

Extent:

66 leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (153 x 102) mm. bound to 202 x 144 mm.

Publisher:

between 1600 and 1619

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 494
Electronic Resource
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Replaces: pudl0032/3s494

Is part of:

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

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