Kitab-i Şah u geda

Title:

Kitab-i Şah u geda
كتاب شاه وكدا

Alternative title:

Şah u geda
شاه وكدا
شاه وگدا

Creator:

Yahyâ Bey
يحيى بيك

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner

Date:

[16-- or 17--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 413Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, decoration, etc. would suggest 17th or 18th century.Former shelfmark: "124 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf and recto of back flyleaf ; "263" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1) ; "٢٩١" on label affixed to lower cover.Binding: Pasteboards faced in dark brown leather with brown leather over board edges and spine (likely repair) ; Type III binding (without flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in dark red-violet surface-dyed wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped lozenge-shaped central ornament (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, similar to Déroche class. NSd 5) with tooled and gold-painted accents and rule-border ; sewn in red-violet thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and red-violet, good condition ; overall in fair condition with minor abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, significant negative draw in upper cover, etc. ; ill-fitting text block.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, quite indistinct) and no chain lines visible, cloudy formation, inclusions visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, light burnished, beige in color ; some breakthrough at frames ; added leaves in European paper (trace of raisin watermark, see p.154, 156, etc.).Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) appears at opening on p.2, consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular piece or dome with crudely drawn floral vegetal motifs in shades of pink, blue, red, white on a gold ground, surmounted by crude vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold frame defined by black fillets (also defines divisions within) with outermost red and blue rules, elsewhere only gold frame appears ; section headings rubricated ; several somewhat crude illustrations appear toward the end of the text (see pp.50, 54, 55, 81, 83, 88, 96, 115, 122), all half or not quite full-page miniatures.Script: Naskh ; clear, well-formed Turkish hand in a medium line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with occasional head-serifs on free-standing alif, lām, etc., effect of tilt to the left, closed and open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing in conjoined dots or strokes, occasionally vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; final poem in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), IV (10), 2 V(30), IV+1 (39), V (49), 3 IV(73), IV-6+6 (81), i ; mainly quaternions and quinions ; several blank leaves at opening and close of codex ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "عين عفوكله اول بزه ناظر سوزمز بودر اول وآخر تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب تم تم تم"Incipit: "سطر بسم الله اى اولو الالباب اولدى متفاح باب قفل كتاب ..."Title from rubricated heading in opening matter on p.30.Ms. codex.2. p.140-p.146 : Bahr-i tavil.1. p.2-p.139 : Kitab-i Şah u geda / Yahyâ Bey.Careful copy of Şah u geda or "The King and the beggar," most popular of the five mesnevis of the Hamse of Dukâginzâde (Dukakinzade) Yahyâ Bey Taşlıcalı (d.1578), an important 16th century Ottoman poet of Albanian origin. Illustrated with nine miniatures. Followed by an additional poem.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Turkish
Masnavis, Turkish Early works to 1800.
Turkish poetry 16th century.

Time period:

16th century

Extent:

81 leaves : paper ; 160 x 100 (110 x 60) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006822675

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