Details

Subject(s)

• Astrometeorology—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astrometeorology—Turkey—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Chronograms [Browse]

Summary note

Versified treatise on prognostics based on meteorological phenomena throughout the year, based, according to the start of the text, on Yazıcı Salahuddin's Şemsiyye. The date of the composition of the work is given in the chronogram at end of the introductory section as 1045/1635-36 (see Rieu ref. below).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. iia (repeated on fol. iib).
• 19 lines per page. Written in a medium sized script in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in red ink. Glazed European paper with watermarks. Fol. ib has a table of contents in red and black ink. The title on fol. iia is dated: 1226 (1811-12). Fol. 104a has a recipe in a later hand.
• Incipit: بعد حمد خدا ونعت نبى ملحمه نظمنك بودر سببي
• Explicit: خط سنك هم قلم سنك يا رب نه يازرسك كرم سنك يا رب

Binding note

Wide-grained brown leather with blid guilloche around cover edges. Light brown leather on spine. Pastedowns in yellow paper.

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

• Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 4 (367).
• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, 193.

Other title(s)

Melhame

OCLC

122868681

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