Nefehat-i üns-i Lâmiî

Title:

Nefehat-i üns-i Lâmiî
نفحات انس لامعى

Alternative title:

Futūḥ al-mujāhidīn li-tarwīḥ qulūb al-mushāhidīn
نفحات انس لامعى
Terceme-i Nefehat ül-üns
Tercüme-yi Nefehatü'l-üns
ترجمۀ نفحات الانس
Futûhu'l-mücâhidîn li-tervîhi kulûbi'l-müşâhidîn
Fütûhü'l-mücâhidîn li-tervîhi kulûbi'l-müşâhidîn
Futūḥ al-mushāhidīn li-tarwīḥ qulūb al-mujāhidīn
Fütûhü'l-müşâhidîn li-tervihi kulûbi'l-mücâhidîn
Futûhu'l-müşâhidîn li-tervihi kulûbi'l-mücâhidîn
فتوح المشاهدين لترويح قلوب المجاهدين
فتوح المجاهدين لترويح قلوب المشاهدين

Creator:

Lâmiî Çelebi
لامعى چلبى محمود بن عثمان

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Jāmī
جامي

Date:

[1848].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 388Origin: As appears in colophon on p.761, transcription completed ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min taḥrīr al-nuskhah al-sharīfah al-mubārakah...") in the first part of Ṣafar 1264 [January 1848]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.761), composition completed in Rajab 927 [June-July 1521].Former shelfmark: "583 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.Binding: Boards covered in a dark maroon leather ; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a coated, textured (embossed with swirling vegetal design) paper in red with gold-painted borders ; upper and lower covers carry rectangular panel defined by gold borders (tooled and painted) with central painted ornament evoking a bowl or vase with flowers and leaves as well as cornerpieces in floral sprays, all in gold and green ; edges of text block gilt ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, good condition ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion at board edges, joint of fore edge flap, etc.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (mainly horizontal, fairly indistinct, curved) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, inclusions, dark beige to light brown in color, fairly transluscent and crisp though sturdy, highly sized and burnished to glossy.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents (فهرست) on p.4, consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying the title and author in blue "فهرست نفحات انس لامعى") flanked by swirling vegetal motifs in blended green, yellow and white on a gold ground ; another fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.40, consisting of a vaguely triangular shaped piece built up of vegetal forms in blended shades of dark green with gold cartouche (carrying the title and author in blue "نفحات انس لامعى") and sprays of flowers in pink, lavender, light blue, etc. ; written area surrounded by gold frame (much heavier on incipit and facing page, pp.40-41) defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule, divisions within table of contents and elsewhere (mainly to set off verses) defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings, key words, notabilia, some individual letters of words (mainly names) and some abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining keywords) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots, etc. in red ; overlining in red ; small circular diagram in margin of p.79 in blue, red and black ink, another diagram on p.616 in black and red.Script: Naskh ; elegant, compact Turkish hand in a bold line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on many ascenders, slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), curvilinear descenders, many closed counters, pointing mainly in conjoined dots or strokes.Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V (10), IV (18), 36 V(378), II (382), ii ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (distinct for table of contents and main work) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.293-294).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وصلى الله على سيدنا ونبينا محمد خير الانام وعلى آله الكرام واصحابه العظام وعلى ائمة اهل الاسلام ومن تبعهم الى يوم القيام وكان الفراغ من تحرير النسخة الشريفة المباركة سنه اربع وستين ومائتين والف في اوائل شهر صفر الخير في سنه ١٢٦٤"Explicit: "ايرمه يوزك ايزلرندن لامعى كيم بونلرك كرچه كيم اشكال حقدر يكن انسان [؟] ايتديلر تاريخ ترجمه ... تاريخ عام طقوز يوز يكرمى ايدى [يدى] پس رجب آيى ايچنده اولدى تمام"Incipit: "نحن نقص عليك احسن القصص بما اوحينا اليك هذا القرآن وان كنت من فبله لمن الغافلين ... افتتاح نفحات انفاس ارباب انس كه ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Lâmiî Çelebi's Turkish translation of Jāmī's celebrated collection of Ṣūfī biographies with the addition of more than thirty Anatolian saints and poets. Table of contents at opening (pp.4-37). Contribution to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Muslim saints Biography Early works to 1800.
Sufis Biography Early works to 1800.
Sufism Biography Early works to 1800.

Extent:

382 leaves : paper ; 248 x 140 (175 x 73) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006822141

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