Details

Subject(s)

• Turkey—Kings and rulers—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—History—to 1453—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—History—1453-1683—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Translator

• Şaʼban Şifaı̂, -1705 [Browse]

Related name

• شعبان شفائى [Browse]

Copyist

• Şaʼban Şifaı̂, -1705 [Browse]

Summary note

A translation by Şaban Şifai of Karmī's Qalāʾid al-ʻiqyān fī fadāʾil mulūk āl ʻUthmān, a work about the virtues of Ottoman sultans.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from the beginning of the text on fol. 6b.
• Copied in translator's own hand and completed on the 29th of Shawwāl 1115 (1704) -- colophon (fol. 212b).
• 19 lines per page. Written in a medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for underlined words. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 3b has an illuminated head piece in embossed gold leaf with red, blue and white watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 2a has an incomplete table of contents in a later hand. Title on the lower edge of text block: Kalaid ül-ikyan fi fezail-i Al-i Osman.
• Incipit: سبحانك اللهم مالک الملک تؤتى الملك من تشآء وتنزع الملك ممن تشآء
• Explicit: وهو السلطان ابن السلطان المظفر احمد خان ابن السلطان الغازى محمد خان ... آمين يا مجيب دعوة السائلين و صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله واصحابه اجمعين

Binding note

Half leather. Marbled paper over pasteboard on covers. Brown leather on spine and around cover edges. Gold roll and a fillet around edges of covers. Pastedowns in yellow paper. Spine is broken and the ms. is in two separate parts.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Brockelmann, C. GAL, GII, 369 (19).

Other title(s)

Kalaid ül-ikyan fi fezail-i Al-i Osman

OCLC

122765090

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