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Subject(s)

• Astronomy—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islam—Customs and practices—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2035 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Contains

• Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657. Ilhām al-muqaddas min al-fayḍ al-aqdas. [Browse]
• كاتب چلبي، 1609-1657. الهام المقدس من الفيض الاقدس. [Browse]
• Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657. Mīzān al-ḥaqq fī ikhtiyār al-aḥaqq. [Browse]
• كاتب چلبي، 1609-1657. ميزان الحق في اختيار الاحق. [Browse]

Summary note

A composite codex consisting of a short risale in astronomy, al-Ilhām al-muqaddas min al-fayḍ al-aqdas, and Mīzān al-ḥaqq fī ikhtiyār al-aḥaqq, a tratise on various religious issues, both by Kâtip Çelebi.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Layout: Ilhām al-muqaddas frame-ruled in red ; Mīzān al-ḥaqq frame-ruled in orange.
• Description: Written in small script in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Written area of text 2 slightly larger. Both texts have catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Text 1 is on glazed European paper and text 2 is on a thinner glazed paper with no visible chain or laid lines. Although the texts are not contemporary, they vary only slightly in terms of style and the hands are very similar.
• Decoration: Ilhām al-muqaddas has an illuminated headpiece in gold leaf, purple, orange and grey (fol. 2b). Opening spread is frame-rued in gold outlined in black (fol. 2b-3a). Mīzān al-ḥaqq has an illuminated headpiece in gold leaf and orange.
• Incipit: [الالهام المقدس] الحمد الله على توفيقه ... وبعده چون نص كريم و ما خلقت الجن والانس الا يعبدون -- [ميزان الحق] الحمد لله الذي جعل العقل ... وبعد اول آفرينش دن بروميان ارباب دانش ده عقل ايله
• Explicit: [الالهام المقدس] والحق احق ان يتبع كفى المرء نيلا ان يعد معايبه والله غفور رحيم جواد كريم -- [ميزان الحق] طريق برهان ورضاي رحماندن ايرميه بمنه وكرمه آمين يا مجيب السائلين

Binding note

Brown leather with blind stamped mandorlas in the centre of upper and lower covers. Pastedowns in light purple paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. Fol. 1b-16a: Ilhām al-muqaddas min al-fayḍ al-aqdas. A short treatise in astronomy.
• 2. Fol. 17a-17b: [table of contents for Mīzān al-ḥaqq fī ikhtiyār al-aḥaqq]
• 3. Fol. 18b-73a: Mīzān al-ḥaqq fī ikhtiyār al-aḥaqq. A treatise on various religious issues, practices and customs.
• 4. Fol. 74a: [a duʻāʼ in Arabic]

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Provenance

Five ownership statements on fol. 1a, three of them dated, 1129 (1716-17), 1211 (1796-97), and 1302 (1884 or 85).

OCLC

123499173

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