Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 381Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 18th century.Former shelfmark: "177 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather with dark red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in silver-flecked orange paper, hinge and pastedown once covered with pink wove paper ; upper and lower covers block-stamped with gold-painted vegetal design and central mandorla of blue paper, red paper, and green silk covered by gilded leather filigree and surrounded by pendants and cornerpieces as well as tooled border and block-stamped, gilded rectangles above and below, band of red paper, blue paper, and green silk lozenges covered with gilded leather filigree, flanked by tooled borders in gold, and surrounded by tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps in gold ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green, dark blue, and pink thread ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, pest damage, loss areas, and corner damage, large losses in upper pastedown.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; first type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 22 mm. apart, burnished, thin and crisp with watermark of grapes surmounted by a cartouche inscribed with "I R" and a crown motif (see p.184, etc., compare 2384 in Heawood lf. 94, Raison no. 22, p.28, 385 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1727) ; second type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, burnished, thin and crisp with watermark of grapes surmounted by a cartouche inscribed with "GAILLIARDON [?]" and a crown motif (see p.200, etc., compare Raisin no.30 A, pp.28-29, 52, 387 in Velkov, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1749).Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of a rectanglular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by vegetal designs in pink, red, white, and gold on a blue field surmounted by a w-shaped piece filled with vegetal designs in pink, red, white, and gold on a blue field with delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue above, all set in a well of red bands with white crosses, a thick band of geometric interlace, and a thin blue band with white crosses ; additional illuminated headpieces on pages 451, 609, and 932 less elaborate than the initial headpiece and each with scalloped semi-circular piece surmounting similar rectangular piece ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of a thick gold band defined by black fillets, divisions within defined by thin gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords and headings mainly rubricated but also supplied in blue ink (p.154-159), in orange ink (p.438-450), and chrysographed (after p.1218) in certain sections ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas mainly in dark red but supplied in blue ink p.154-159, in orange ink p.438-450, and chrysographed after p.1218).Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, and pointing mainly in conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, occasionally divided to two or three columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 63 V (630), IV+1 (639), i ; chiefly quinions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Explicit: "وبارك لنا فيهم و جعلنا في لاآخرة من مجاوريهم "Incipit: "ابتدى بسم ربى المتعال مالك الملك واهب الامال ..."Title from inscription on added 'title page' (front flyleaf).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of Tacüʻt-tevarih, the celebrated history of the Ottomans from their beginnings to the death of Selim I (r.1512-1520) carefully composed by the well-known Ottoman şeyhülislam, statesman and historian, Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d.1599). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 1051Origin: As appears in colophon at close on p.630, Tarih-i Fezleke copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan, known as Miftāḥīzādah (Miftahizade Mustafa b. Hasan) with transcription completed in Dār al-Salṭanah al-Qusṭanṭanīyah (Istanbul) mid-Ṣafar 1117 [June 1705]. As appears in colophon at close on margins of p.313 (fol.١٤٩ a) , Tuhfetü'l-kibar also copied by Miftahizade Mustafa b. Hasan with transcription completed in Istanbul end of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1117 [March 1706]. Transcript of Mizanü'l-hak ends abruptly and lacks colophon (see p.388), though hand suggests that it was also entered by Miftahizade Mustafa b. Hasan, likely just after the transcription of Tuhfetü'l-kibar.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (once with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in mint green, gold- and silver-flecked paper, made endpapers / flyleaves in marbled paper (chiefly in red, green and blue) ; upper and lower covers carry stamped (recessed onlays), gold-painted mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, symmetrical but without chi clouds) and pendants, as well as tooled and gold-painted cornerpieces and chain borders (series of s-shaped stamps) ; edges of text block tinted yellow ; primaries sewn through textile spine lining, reversed leather glued on top, lapped upon lower cover ; sewn in dark rose thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in red and sage green ; overall in fair condition with flap lost, boards delaminating, lifting and losses of leather, minor pest damage, etc. ; subtle repairs at board edges (tail and head).Support: European laid paper with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of three hats or caps (tre cappelli, see pp.16, 22, 32, 40, 622, etc.), cream in color, quite sturdy, extremely well-burnished to glossy ; some cockling, minor moisture damage toward close of codex ; added table of contents on another European paper of "raisin" type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (vertical) and watermarks of names (see p.6, etc.) and grapes (raisin) with crown and name "A. GALLIARD [?]" above (see p.2, 8, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text (on p.14, following added table of contents), consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche carrying section heading in red "في سنة الف" flanked by swirling floral motifs on dark blue (reminiscent of lapis) and gold grounds, surmounted by a scalloped w-shaped piece with swirling floral vegetal motifs in shades of pink, light blue, orange, red and yellow on grounds of gold and dark blue, all set in a well of heavy gold interlace, narrow gold bands and bands of blue and red with white crosses and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in dark blue with red accents ; incipit and facing pages surrounded by heavy gold frame defined by narrower gold band, black fillets and outermost red fillet, elsewhere written area surrounded by narrower gold frame defined by black fillets ; headings and keywords rubricated ; some overlining of other keywords in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with effect of words gently descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, some sweeping descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final and free-standing nūn with an angled bowl, not exceptionally wide with point nearly assimilated.Layout: Written in 31 lines per page ; additional texts glossed in margins in varying number of lines on the diagonal on certain pages ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, III (6), 31 V (316), i ; exclusively quinions with ternion for added table of contents for entire codex ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, distinct for each of the two texts glossed on the margins ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Tarih-i Fezleke] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم هذا الكتاب المستطاب بعون الله الملك القديم الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد مصطفى بن حسن الشهير بمفتاحى زاده فى بلدۀ دار السلطنة القسطنطنية فى اواسط شهر صفر الخير لسنه سبع عشره ومايه والف م" ; [Tuhfetü'l-kibar] "Scribal," reads "تم هذا الكتاب بعون الله الملك القديم الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد مصطفى بن حسن الشهير بمفتاحى زاده فى بلدۀ دار السلطنة القسطنطنية فى اواخر شهر ذالقعدۀ شريفه لسنه سبع عشره ومايه والف"Explicit: [Tarih-i Fezleke] "مقدما حسن اغايه حيله ايدن حلواجى محمد قونيه ده قتل واخذ اولمغين" ; [Tuhfetü'l-kibar] "برر برر اجرا ايلمك اسبابه بولندن مباشرتك شرطى در الله تعالى ميسر ايليه امين" ; [Mizanü'l-hak] "وبو كه كشف الظنون عن اسامى الكتب والفنون نامى قونلوب سابقا مسوده سن"Incipit: [Tarih-i Fezleke] "سنۀ مزبوره محرمنك غره سى كه يوم السبت در هجرت نبويه نك اوجيوز اللى درت بيك درتيوز طقسان طقوزنجى كونى اولوب ..." ; [Tuhfetü'l-kibar] "ابتداء تاريخ تحفة الكبار سرنامۀ داتسان جهان ستان حمد وسپاس خداوند زمين وزمان اولمق ...وبعد چون تاريخ هجرة نبويه بيك اللى بش ساله ايروب كلام معجز اثار نبويه ما صدقى اولان فتوحاة اسلاميه دن كريد فتحى ظهور ايلدى ... اسمنه تحفة الكبار فى اسفار البحار ديدى ..." ; [Mizanü'l-hak] "الحمد لله الذي جعل العقل حجة في خلقه وايد الشرع به فيما يفرق بين الباطل وحقه ... وبعد اول آفرينش دن برو ميان ارباب دانشده عقل ايله نقل توامان ومعقول ومنقول فرسى رهان ايدوكى ... اكا بناء نزاع اولنان مسئله ده طريق برهانى بيان ايچون برايكى سطر تسويد اولنوب ميزان الحق فى اختيار الاحق دينلدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from edge title and inscription on 'title page' for added table of contents (p.1).Ms. codex.6. p.314-p.388 (margins) : Mizanü'l-hak fî ihtiyari'l-ahak / Kâtip Çelebi.5. p.65-p.313 (margins) : Tuhfetü'l-kibar fi esfari'l-bihar / Kâtip Çelebi.4. p.64 (margins) : Fihris-i Kitab-i Tuhfetü'l-kibar.3. p.62-p.63 (margins) : [four signed favorable blurbs (taqrīẓ)].2. p.13-p.630 : Tarih-i Fezleke / Kâtip Çelebi.1. p.1-p.12 : [table of contents].Elegant volume carrying three works by the renowned Ottoman scholar Kâtip Çelebi (d.1657), preceded by a table of contents for all three. In the main written area appears his Tarih-i Fezleke, a chronicle of Ottoman history addressing the years 1000 to 1065 (1591 to 1654-5). Two additional works are glossed with deliberate placement on the margins: first his Tuhfetü'l-kibar fi esfari'l-bihar, a history of Ottoman naval engagements through 1067 (1656) preceded by four signed favorable blurbs (taqrīẓ) and contents listing (fihris) and finally Mizanü'l-hak fî ihtiyari'l-ahak, his final work, addressing controversial questions of doctrine or practice with proposed solutions and concluding with an autobiographical account of his life and works (this copy incomplete).
Popular history that starts with stories of the prophets (ff. 5r-17v) the offers anecdotes from the life of Prophet Muḥammad (ff. 17v-20v) and the four rightly guided caliphs and narrates history of Islamic dynasties (ff. 20v-35v). History of Ottoman family starts with Ertuġrıl and ends with at Süleymān Qānūnī (ff. 35v-60v). Enumerates sultan's campaigns, charitable foundations they established, and noteworthy contemporary scholars and religious personalities.20.3 x 14.5 cm (16 x 8.5 cm).Written in naskh in one column, 21 lines per page, in black with names of prophets and sultans appear as section headings in red. Comments in red and black in the margins. Majority of text red overlined. Catchwords.Cream laid paper, boards covered with marbled paper. Dark red leather spine.Seal of the Naval Lyceum on f. 60v.MS Turk 8. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Ottoman Turkish.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).