Mir'âtü's-safâ

Title:

Mir'âtü's-safâ
مرآت الصفا

Alternative title:

مرآة الصفاء
Mirât üs-safâ
Mir'âtü's-safâ

Creator:

Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz
قره چلبي زاده عبد العزيز

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Rasihzade Hafidi Mustafa Asım, scribe
راسخ زاده حفيدى مصطفى عاصم, ناسخ

Date:

[1846].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 385Origin: As appears in colophon on p.144, copied by Mustafa Asım, grandson of Rasihzade (Rasihzade Hafîdi Mustafa Asım), with transcription completed in the first part of Ṣafar 1262 [January 1846].Former shelfmark: "348 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.2).Binding: Pasteboards covered in light brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in dark red leather with gold-painted central mandorla and pendants ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition compare Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces along with tooled border in gold ; sewn now in light brown thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and pink, good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, moisture damage, lifting and losses of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; repairs to fore edge flap in recycled finished leather (gold-painted and tooled), repair to spine in black leather, fill for onlay of cornerpiece in upper cover from recycled finished leather (stamped), rehinged ; cover likely much earlier than transcript / text block and here recycled.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, somewhat distinct, curved) and no chain lines visible, cloudy formation, inclusions visible, crisp and sturdy, highly sized and burnished to glossy, buff colored.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and notabilia rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, elongated horizontal strokes, pointing in conjoined dots ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, occasionally divided to two columns to set off verses ; frame-ruled.Collation: V+1 (11), 6 V(71), I (73) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد الاولين والآخرين وعلى اله واصحابه وعترته الطاهرين وعلى سائر الانبياء والمرسلين وقد وقع الفراغ عن التحرير والتزبير بعون الله الملك القدير راسخ زاده حفيدى مصطفى عاصم غفر الله ذنوبهم وستر عيوبهم فى اوائل صفر الخير المنسلك بسلك سنه اثنى وستين ومائتين بعد الالف"Explicit: "بو مختصر رسالۀ مرآت الصفا بهم نشيدۀ شيرازۀ جمع وتنميق اولمق ... زبان عبد فقير كوهركش رشتۀ اولديغى الفوايح النبويه فى السير المصطفويه نام كتاب صحت نصاب عمدۀ اهتمامنه تحميل اولندى والله يهدى الى سواء السبيل وهو حسبى ونعم الوكيل"Incipit: "پیشكاه باركاه كبريا بيناهيه [بى نهايه] از سرا جلال وتعظيم حمد وسپاس بى قياس تقديم اولنوب ... حقير قره چلبي زاده عبد العزيز فقير اولدركه بو ايام فاضلۀ ... مناقب سعادت عواقب رسل كرام ... فرائد الفوائد مرآت الصفا نام نام درج الدررده اولنوب ..."Title from opening on p.3 and close on p.143.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the work on the sīrah of the Prophet by Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi (d.1658).

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Turkish

Extent:

73 leaves : paper ; 245 x 140 (155 x 70) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006822099

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