İbretname

Title:

İbretname
عبرتنامه

Alternative title:

İbret-nümâ
İbret-nāme
عبرت نما
عبرت نآمه

Creator:

Lâmiî Çelebi, 1472-1532 (المنشئ)

Date:

Date Created: 1572

Description:

A work in two parts on legendary accounts of holy persons and stories with moral significance.حمدني حمد وثناي ني عد اول حليم يرحلمت وعليم بي مؤهبته كه نقوش عالمي ونفوس بني آدمي انواع مثال واضاف خيال... :Incipitقد تم تحرير هذا الكتاب الشريف على يد العبد الفقير الضعيف محمد عبد الكريم النحيف فياليوم الخامس العشر في الشهر الثامن... :Colophon19.2 x 13 cm (13.5 x 7.5-8 cm).Light-cream laid glazed paper. Water stains. Brown leather binding.According to colophon (f. 136v), copy completed on 25 Shaʻbān 979 AH [January 12, 1572 AD] in the hand of Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Karīm.Written in naskh script, in one column, 15 lines per page, in black with rubrics and Qurʻanic verses in red or red overlined. Red ornamental and punctuation marks in text. Catchwords.Work composed in 932 AH [1525 or 26 AD].With: Nasîhat-nâme (ff. 137v-140v) which is an advice poem on health matters, dealing mostly with consumption habits (recommendations include eating small amounts of food, not drinking too much water, not eating fish with milk).MS Turk 45. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type:

text
Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Islamic ethics
Islamic stories
Tales

Geographic region:

Place of Production: xx, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Islamic countries

Extent:

136 leaves, bound ; 20 cm.

Identifier:

990114381930203941

Is part of:

Open Collections Program at Harvard University Islamic Heritage Project

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