Details

Subject(s)

• Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Masnavis, Turkish—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

One of Yahyâ Bey's five mathnāwīs.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 3b.
• Copied in 996 (1587-88) -- colophon (fol. 96b).
• 17 lines per page. Written in a simple small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is within a frame split into two sections, outlined in red ink. On ff. 24b-25a the text frames are further outlined by a gold and black frame the lines of which extend into outer margins. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Numerous short inscriptions on ff. 1a-3a, including duʻāʾs, a list of Ottoman Sultans with the dates of their reigns, a record of a death etc. Same on ff. 97a-99b. Several ownership seals on fol. 97b of various shapes including circular, oblong and circular with scalloped edges, most fully or partially obliterated.
• Incipit: بو اسم اعظم وطلسم مبهم اولن بسم الله ... جان ودلدن ديه لم بسم الله اچلم سوزله سوز كنجنه راه
• Explicit: كوكدن او ازيلنديله سروش ددي تاريخني انك خاموش سنه 947

Binding note

Brown leather with envelope flap. Blind fillets and small rosetta stamps around borders, and blind stamped mandorlas and rosetta stamps in the centre of upper and lower covers. Small blind stamped mandorla on the envelope flap. Lining to envelope flap and the pastedowns in teracotta colored paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• A large oblong ownership seal on fol. 3a, only partially legible, in the name of Hacı Halil.
• Ownership statement in the name of Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān on fol. 99a.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

1340394282

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