Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Kınalızade's work on ethics in 3 books (kitāb), composed in 1565. This copy comprises books 1 and 2 only.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from the lower edge of text block.
• 25 lines per page. Written in small rounded nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a single line frame outlined in red ink. Glazed European paper. Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, both undated, in the names of Mehmet ibn Şaban and Ibrahim bin Mustafa, a müderris at the "Zeynî [?] Çelebi Medrese". Two faint ownership seals on the same fol. A number of other short inscriptions (chiefly verse and one list of market produce and their prices on fol. 233a) on fol. 1a, and ff. 231a, 233a-b, 234a-b.
• Incipit: درر زواهر حمد وثنا وغرر ظواهر سپاس وستايش كه كثرت افراد فرايدينه سلك شهور وايامده احتمال اجتماع وانتظام
• Explicit: معلوم اولا كه بو خصالدن ضوررى اولمين نسب در اما غايت نافع در لكن يسار وموافقت عسكر خصال باقيه دن حاصل اولور والله تعالى اعلم واحكم

Binding note

Brown leather. Blind tooled border on covers using fillets and rosetta stamps. Blind tooled mandorlas with rosetta stamps around edges in the center of upper and lower covers. Evidence of an envelope flap which is now missing. Upper cover pastedown in olive fabric. Lower cover pastedown in two different types of marbled paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

OCLC

1340430980

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