Details

Subject(s)

• Turkish poetry—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

Nabi's poem in Islamic ethics, dedicated to his son Ebulhayr and containing moral guidance on Islam and Islamic conduct of life.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings. Text is within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, with columns and verses inside the frame also separated with lines in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Text frames on ff. 1b-2a are wider and are outlined with an additional line of red ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with blue, orange, purple, white and red watercolors, and two couplets on fol. 2a are inside illuminated frames, made with gold leaf and blue, orange, purple and white watercolors. Glazed European paper. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Several short inscriptions on fol. 1a.
• An inscription on fol. 1a stating that the copy is "one of the works (eser-i hamelerinden) of the calligrapher Haffaf Zade Hüseyn Efendi".
• Incipit: حمد اول الله عظيم الشانه مبدع دائرهء امكانه
• Explicit: چون ابو الخير قونلدي نامك خير ايده حضرت حق انجامك

Binding note

Brown leather with gold fillets and guilloche around borders of covers. Gold obloid stamps with small rosetta stamps around the edges in the centre of upper and lower covers. Spine repaired in different light brown leather.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

OCLC

122572441

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