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Subject(s)

• Muḥammad Prophet -632—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Abū Bakr Caliph -634—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Caliph -644—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān Caliph -656—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph approximately 600-661—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Caliphs—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2065Y [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Contains

• Hakanî Mehmet Bey, -1606,. Hilye-yi Hakanî. [Browse]
• خاقاني محمد بك، -1606. حليهء خاقاني. [Browse]
• Cevrî, İbrahim, active 17th century. Hilye-yi Cihâryâr-i Güzin. [Browse]
• ،جوري، ايبراهيم active 17th century. حليهء جهاريار كزين. [Browse]

Summary note

Hakanî Mehmet Bey's hilye, a poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, and Cevrî Ibrahim's hilye in praise of the first four 'rightly guided' caliphs.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Layout: 19 lines per page in two columns ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Written in small script in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (fol. 1b).
• Origin: Copied by Ahmet bin Mustafa and completed in the last ten days of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1153 (1741) -- colophon (fol. 24b).
• Incipit: [حليهء خاقاني] بسمليله ايده لم فتح كلام فتح اوله تا بو معما ى بنام -- [حليهء جهاريار كزين] منت الله تعالى بر وجه كمال ادمه قلدى عطا حسين جمال
• Explicit: [حليهء خاقاني] اولمدين بيك يدى تاريخى تمام بو رسالمده تمام اولدى كلام -- [حليهء جهاريار كزين] قلم ناظم ياكيزه كلام ويردى بيك اللى ده بو نظمه نظام

Binding note

Burgundy leather with a gold tooled panel design on covers, consisting of a wide gold guilloche and fillets around borders, and a central rectangle made with sprigs interlacing in a diamond pattern with small rosetta stamps inside the pattern and outside the rectangle. Endleaves in cream and olive foliage motif paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-20b: Hilye-yi Hakanî / Hakanî Mehmet Bey. Poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad.
• 2. Fol. 20b-24a: Hilye-yi Cihâryâr-i Güzin / Cevrî Ibrahim. Poem in praise of the first four 'rightly guided' caliphs.

Provenance

Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Özege, M.S. Eski harflerle, 7631.

Other title(s)

• Hilye-yi șerife-yi c̦ahâryâr-i Güzin.
• حليهء شريفهء چهاريار كزين.

OCLC

1340397773

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