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Subject(s)

• Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Animals—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Human-animal relationships—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related work(s)

Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ. Rasāʾil. 21. Ottoman Turkish. [Browse]

Summary note

A loose translation of the 21st Risālah of Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• 17 lines per page. Written in a small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Light cream paper with visible chain lines. Fol. 2a has two couplets of poetry, and a short inscription by Muḥammad Valī Ṭāghatānī [?] saying that he commenced the translation of the work into Persian on the first day of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1310 (1892).
• Incipit: هذا كتابنا ينطق عليكم بالحق انا كنا نستنسخ بما كنتم تعلمون اجناس سپاس خرشيد اقتباس
• Explicit: خط فرمانك اولب طغراي منشورقضا قدرك احكامينک اورسون هرم امضاسين قدر

Binding note

Brown leather over pasteboard with blind stamped central mandorlas on covers. Substantial damage to the binding and the upper cover is torn and separated from the pasteboard. Spine repaired in different light brown leather. Lower cover has marbled paper pasted over. Pastedowns in peach colored 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.

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 3 (318)

OCLC

127263629

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