Hüsn-ü hat risalesi

Title:

Hüsn-ü hat risalesi
حسن خط رساله سى

Alternative title:

Risale-yi hat
Risale-yi hüsn-i hat
Hüsn-i hat risalesi

Creator:

Mehmet bin Tacettin
محمد بن تاج الدين

Contributor:

Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi, calligrapher, scribe
Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
كبجى زاده محمد وصفى افندى، خطاط، ناسخ

Date:

ca. 1772].

Description:

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.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Writing, Arabic Technique Early works to 1800.
Calligraphy, Turkish Technique Early works to 1800.
Islamic calligraphy Technique Early works to 1800.

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

28 leaves : paper ; 222 x 160 (129 x 78) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006822263

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