[اخلاق علائي]
[Ahlak-i alâî].
Ms. additions: Numerous inscriptions on front and back flyleaves (ff. 2a-6a, 9b,10a, 248b-259a), in different paper to the main body of the manuscript and consisting of fetvas, many of them by Ebussuud Efendi, a number of quotations, and verse. One of these, several lines of poetry on fol. 254b, is dated 1053 (1643-44), which means that at least some of the flyleaves were already inscribed when they were added at binding. Ff. 6b, 8b and 9a have a table of contents for the main text. Label on cover with number "62".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 259 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (starts on fol. 11) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; glazed European paper.
Decoration: Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 10b-11a).
Incipit: درر زواهر حمد وثنا وغرر ظواهر سپاس وستايش كه كثرت افراد فرايدينه سلك شهور وايامده احتمال اجتماع وانتظام
Explicit: وعليه التكلان انه مفضل منعم حنان سلطان ديان تمت رسالهء مجموعهء مكارم الاخلاق بعون الملك الخلاق
Muslims—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather with a gold-tooled border design made with a guilloche roll with two fillets on either side and six rosetta stamps. Pastedowns in light orange paper.
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1175H
Kınalızade's work on ethics in 3 books (kitāb) composed in 1565.
Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1175H