Details

Subject(s)

• Poets, Turkish—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Poets—Islamic Empire—Biography—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Kınalı-zade's biographical dictionary of poets. The text is incomplete and missing a substantial section at the beginning (the entire first section containing the Sultans and other important personages, and most of letter Alif) as well as a smaller section at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by the cataloger.
• Incomplete.
• 21 lines per page (within main frame). Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. All pages except for the first 6 folios have a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink and a gold leaf margin outlined in black ink. Text is written within both the frame and the margin, in the following pattern: frame of recto, margin of recto, frame of verso, margin of verso etc. Thin dark cream glazed paper with prominent fibres and visible chain and laid lines. Ff. 1-6 are later replacement sheets in different hand and on a different, light cream paper. Fol. ia marked "ʻadad 79".
• Incipit (as extant): عمرينك آفتابى ايتدى غروب لظمه اقتداري اولمغله لايق قبول بعض اشعارى واردر
• Explicit (as extant): وآثار وابياتى پرى كبى كوزدن غائب اولمشدر همانا كلماتى مرور دهور ايله كتيف الخطيب كليل اولمغين عملدن قالمش ودست ايام اني عمان عدمه

Binding note

Dark burgundy leather with a blind tooled panel design on covers, consisting of a border made with guilloche and fillets and colored in silver, and central frame with flower pattern mandorla in the center and flower pattern corner pieces, all blind tooled and colored in red. Pastedowns in yellow paper. Labels on pastedowns wrongly identify the work as "Tezkiret üş-şuarâ" by Latifî.

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

123499074

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