تسهيل الادرك : ترجمۀ تشريح الافلاك.

Teshil ül-idrak : tercüme-yi Teşrih il-eflâk.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
  • Turkish
Published/​Created
[1835?]
Description
109 leaves : paper ; 235 x 138 (162 x 84) mm. bound to 235 x 144 mm.

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    Summary note
    An expanded translation into Ottoman Turkish of Bahāʼ al-Dīn al-ʻĀmilī's Tashrīḥ al-aflāk, a treatise on astronomy.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 2a.
    • The copy was corrected by the author on the 11th of Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1251 (1835) -- margin of fol. 107a. This note and the rest of the marginal annotations appear to be in the same hand, so possibly written by the author too, around (or shortly before) this date [?].
    • 21 lines per page. Written in a medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 2b has an illuminated head piece in embossed gold leaf with blue, red and green watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed wove paper, re-glazed with egg-albumen. Several figures within the text and on margins, in black and red ink. Foliation in red ink using Arabic numerals. Short marginal annotations in black and red ink throughout, in what appears to be the same hand as in the text. Some of the text is crossed out as correction, most notably 18 lines towards the end of text (see the gap between square brackets in the explicit). The note following the title on fol. 2a wrongly names the author as "Kuyucaklızade Mehmet Atif".
    • Incipit: حمد وثناى بى غايه وشكر وسپاس ما لا نهايه ... بعد زين قوله تعالى وما خلقت الجن والانس الا ليعبدون
    • Explicit: بوكتابى وقت استراحتده جمع وتاليف ايلديكنى تفهيم وافاده ايلمك كركدر [...] والله سبحانه اعلم بحقيقه الحال تم الترجمة
    Binding note
    Red leather over pasteboard with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers made with a gold guilloche and several gold fillets. Same design on the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Flyleavs in green paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in red leather.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    • Tercüme-yi Teşrih il-eflâk
    • ترجمۀ تشريح الافلاك
    Added title at the head of fol. 2a
    • Tercüme-yi Teşrih il-eflâk el-müsemma bi-Teshil ül-idrak min ilm il-heyʼet
    OCLC
    122852672
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