Kitab-ı Husrev Şirin

Title:

Kitab-ı Husrev Şirin
كتاب خسروشيرين

Alternative title:

Husrev ü Şirin
كتاب اوليا خسروشرين
Husrev ve Şirin
Husrev Şirin
خسرو وشيرين لمولانا شيخى
خسرو وشيرين

Creator:

Şeyhî
شيخي

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner

Date:

[1487].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 410Origin: As appears in colophon on p.397, transcription completed 4 Ramaḍān 892 [ca. 24 August 1487].Former shelfmark: "493 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on interior of upper cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in marbled paper (mainly in blue and pink) with dark red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (marbled paper faced and leather edged framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; sewn in slate blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in slate blue and cream, only headband remains (and in fair condition) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper and leather, upper cover and spine material (including spine lining) detaching, etc. ; repair to spine / upper joint in red textile.Support: European laid paper of two types ; main type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 32-35 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scales / balances in circle (round scale) with star on pole above (see p.88, 108, 186, 310, etc. and compare Piccard no.117251 Udine 1479), quite sturdy and well-burnished ; at opening of codex, another type with about 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 37 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of banner / flag / standard with cross on pole (see p.12, 28-29, 42, 48-49, 54, etc. and compare Briquet no. 5989 Palermo 1477 and Piccard nos. 122974 / 122975 Ulm 1478 - 1480).Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; written area (and columns within) surrounded by red rule-border ; simple 'tailpiece' in red consisting of floral motifs based on intersecting arcs within a circle flanks colophon.Script: Naskh with some elements of nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless with only slight effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, contrast in thickness of horizontal and vertical strokes, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, curvilinear descenders, some elongation of horizontal strokes ; extensively vocalized.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-1 (9), 7 V(79), IV (87), 3 V(117), V-2 (125), 7 V(195), 4 (199) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تمت بعون الله و حسن التوفيق تحريرا فى الرابع رمضان المبارك سنه اثنى وتسعين وثمانمائة"Explicit: "اولا عرش افسرى كرسى سريرى جهان چاكر جهابان دستكيرى"Incipit: "بحمد الواحد الاحد القديم وبسم الله ذى المين العظيم ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine early copy of Şeyhî's celebrated Turkish version of the Persian allegorical romance, Khusraw va Shīrīn.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Masnavis, Turkish Early works to 1800.
Turkish poetry Early works to 1800.

Extent:

199 leaves : paper ; 210 x 155 (150 x 99) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006822570

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