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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. 1b.
• Copied by Osman bin Ibrahim and completed on the 22nd of Shaʻbān 1183 (1769) [the scribe uses the word niṣf in reference to the completion: "qad waqʻa al-firāgh min niṣf hādhā al-kitāb..."] -- colophon (fol. 137a).
• 25 lines per page. Written in a small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a frame outlined in one line of red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper, most of it re-glazed (with egg albumen?). Ms. addition: a short text entitled "Terekküb-i lal" on fol. 137b.
• Incipit: فاتحة كنج كلام قديم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هذا كتابنا ينطق عليكم بالحق انا كنا نستنسخ ما كنتم تعلمون اجناس سپاس خورشيد اقتباس
• Explicit: خط فرمانك اولوب طغراي منشورقضا قدرك احكامينك اورسون هردم امضاسن قدر

Binding note

Brown leather with envelope flap. Blind fillets and small rosetta stamps around the borders of covers. Central mandorlas on upper and lower covers, blind stamped and painted in orange, with pendants made of a cluster of small rosetta stamps. Same design on the envelope flap. Pastedowns in light purple paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

References

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

OCLC

127299727

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