Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Personal correspondence [Browse]

Summary note

Lâmiî's work in the genre of inshāʾ, letters interspersed with poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• 17 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh, except for fol. 62-82 which are is medium small nastaʻlīq, with some sections in taʻlīq, and which are possibly from another ms. of an earlier date. Written in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper (except for fol. 62-71, which are on a dark cream glazed paper with uneven chain lines). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a and 2a (one of which bears the date '146 (1733-34)). Two obliterated large ownership stamps on fol. 2a.
• Explicit: ويقول يا رب ارحم قائله واوفر نائله بفضلك وكرمك يا رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صورت طغراست زشاه عظسم يا منشي نظام الوجود ... اما بعد اشبو نامهء كفتارى كبى پرشان خاطر

Binding note

Half leather binding with marbled paper on covers and envelope flap, with brown leather on spine and the fore edge flap (spine repaired with two pieces of different red leather). Pastedowns in cream paper. Lining to the envelope flap in marbled paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership statement in the name of Derviş Mustafa ibn Abdullah Aǧa, accompanied by his stamp, on fol. 2a.
• Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

OCLC

137240142

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