Details

Subject(s)

• Hadith—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Proverbs, Arabic—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Summary note

Poetical work on Qurʼānic exegesis and the explanation of hadiths and Arabic proverbs, interspersed with notes on the author's excursions in Turkey, especially northern Anatolia. Dedicated to Kamāl al-Dīn Ismāʻīl, ruler of Kastamonu from 1443-60 (fol. 292a, line 1).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page in 2 columns; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white Italian glazed, laid paper. Watermark of "licorne rampante" (Briquet 9948-51, 1366-72). Fol. 1-263 framed in double red lines. Headings in red; catchwords. Fol. 1 is damaged and has been laid down; fol. 292 has repairs.

Binding note

Modern European imitation-leather binding.

Language note

Turkish dialect of the Mamluk-Kipchak branch in Arabic script.

Source acquisition

2001.

OCLC

537819029

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