Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

A divan. The copy was written for İffetî, known as Kerimzade -- inscription on fol. 1a, accompanied by his stamp.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• 15 lines per page. Written in a medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Pagination in Arabic numerals in black ink. Glazed European paper.
• Incipit: ينه فصل بهار اولدى آچلدى غنچۀ رعنا بحمد الله چوزلدى عقدۀ لرهب چون يخ سرما
• Explicit: هر زمان اولمز مجلى تيغ اقبالك صقن خون نا حقدن كلور البته زنكار قنا تمت

Binding note

Green leather over pasteboard. Gold guilloche and fillets around the borders of covers with small rosetta stamps as corner pieces. Endleaves in purple paper embossed in foliage pattern.

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.

OCLC

122764930

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