Details

Subject(s)

• Mecca (Saudi Arabia)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medina (Saudi Arabia)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Nabi's account of his pilgrimage to Mekka and Medina, composed in 1682.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Copied by Hüseyn bin el-Hac Feyzullah and completed in 1189 (1775-76) -- colophon (fol. 86b).
• 17 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Fol. 22-29 and fol. 32-39 are later replacements on a different paper. A register (list of names with numbers/amounts) on inside of upper cover and fol. 1a.
• Incipit: اي بيت حرامى صف غفران مقام
• Explicit: ديدم تمامنه نابى بو نسخنك تاريخ بو تحفهء حرمينم قبول ايده مولا

Binding note

Half leather envelope flap binding with yellow and green marbled paper (mostly faded) over pasteboard on covers and envelope flap, and red leather on spine, fore edge flap and corners of covers. Lining to the fore edge flap in yellow silk fabric. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in cream paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

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

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

124055899

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