Details

Subject(s)

• Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Romantic poem in mesnevi form.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Copied by Abdullah and completed in Aleppo in the middle of Shaʻbān 967 (1560) -- colophon (fol. 61b).
• 13 lines per page. Written in a medium sized nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written in two columns inside a double line frame in red ink, with columns also separated with a line of red ink. On fol. 1b-2a the frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has a simple illuminated head piece in gold leaf with pink and green watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent pulp.
• Incipit: اكر دلرسك اوله سن سعادت ايليه شاه همشه جند هدايت يانكجه اوله پناه
• Explicit: يازدى تاريخى خامۀ شنكل دفتر مونس كل وبلبل

Binding note

Purple paper on covers with red leather on spine.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• A stamp with the name of Ibrāhīm Ṣādir, al-Maktabah al-ʻUmūmīyah, Beirut, on fol. 1a.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

122824003

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