Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic ethics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic stories—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Tales—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of tales of wisdom.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Copy completed in 980 (1572 or 1573) -- colophon (fol. 147b).
• 15 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. On fol. 2b-3a the frame is in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 2b has an illuminated head piece in gold leaf with blue watercolor. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed paper with uneven chain lines.
• Incipit: حمد بى حد وثنا بى عد اول حكيم پر حكمت وعليم پر موهبت كه نقوش عالمي ونفوس بني آدمي
• Explicit: مسيحاوش قورسك بو سراي ايچرسين چشمهء خوردن شرابي وانا اسال الله تعالى ان يحفظنا ... ونعم النصير

Binding note

Brown leather with envelope flap. The binding is severly damaged and the leather remains only partially on upper cover and the envelope flap. Spine repaired in dark brown leather. Evidence of central mandorlas on covers and blind roll on envelope flap. Pastedowns in light green fabric, partially covered with thin 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.

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 3 (317)

Other title(s)

• İbretnüma
• عبرت نما

OCLC

127376788

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