Mukhtārāt fī tārīkh al-Dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah

Title:

Mukhtārāt fī tārīkh al-Dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah
مختارات في تاريخ الدولة العثمانية

Contributor:

Nuttall, Frank E., former owner

Date:

[18--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 898Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. would suggest late 19th century ; bookseller's label suggests terminus ante quem in the range of 1886 to 1916.Accompanying materials: "a. Card with writing in hand of Emilie Savage-Smith: 'Not native hand, European? or very old writer | Arabic, in pencil | probably transcribing a text.' -- b. Slip of paper: 'Persian [crossed out] Arabic Manuscripts (Heyworth-Dunne?) No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes' -- c. Slip of paper: 'Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report.'"- from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993, no longer in volume.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 47Binding: Boards covered in dark brown cloth ; Western style binding ; pastedowns in wove paper (opening leaf of opening quire and final leaf of final quire) ; sewn in heavy cream thread, four stations, over two wide tapes / bands (flexible sewing) ; overall in fair condition with spine cloth gone (exposing sewing), some staining, abrasion, etc.Support: European wove paper upon which leaves carrying the transcript have been affixed (compare Isl. Ms. 896).Script: Naskh ; somewhat crudely executed in pencil in imitation of the exemplar ; mainly serifless, rounded with curvilinear descenders, occasional slight effect of words inclining to the left, otherwise adhering fairly consistently to the baseline, pointing in distinct dots, mainly open counters ; section headings in a larger, bolded script approaching tawqīʻ or thuluth ; compare Isl. Ms. 896.Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: IV* (7), 2 IV(23), IV* (30) ; opening leaf of opening quire and final leaf of final quire serving as pastedowns ; exclusively quaternions ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, in lower outer corner of each page.Incipit: "تملك قسطنطين الاخير في التفاقم طول اناتك ايها السيد الضابط الكل كيف سمحت بهذه الامور بطول اناتك لكن اقول مع النبي من ذا عرف عقل الرب او من صار مشيرا عليه اي قلب حجري يقدر ان لا يكبر ولا ينوب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Transcript of excerpts from a historical work addressing the final Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos [Palaeologus] (d.1453), and the Ottoman Sultans Bayezid II (r.1481-1512), Selim I (r.1512-1520), and Süleyman I [the Magnificent] (r.1520-1566).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Byzantine Empire History Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453.

Geographic region:

Turkey
Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Sea
Byzantine Empire

Time period:

Turkey: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Byzantine Empire: Constantine XI Dragases, 1448-1453

Extent:

30 leaves : paper ; 246 x 191 (235 x 135) mm. bound to 253 x 193 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006833771

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