Details

Subject(s)

• Sufism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mysticism—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A translation into Ottoman Turkish of Şeyh Bedreddin's Wāridāt.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Copied by el-Seyit Hafız Hüseyn al-Fevzi, Sahaf 1307 (1889-90) -- colophon (fol. 70a).
• 11 lines per page. Written in an elegant medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a double line frame in red ink. Fol. 1b has a floral ʻunwān in red ink, and fol. 67b and 70a both have floral tail pieces in red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed, dark cream wove paper. Few marginal annotations in red ink. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. Ms. addition: an inscription in a later hand on fol. 70b, dated 1333 (1914-15).
• Incipit: حمد بى حد وثناى لايعد اول واجب الوجود ومفيض الكرم والجوده مخصوصدر كه
• Explicit: عالم شهادتده اظهار ايديجيدر بو عالمده بدن روحه محتاجدر

Binding note

Burgundy leather over pasteboard. Gold roll around edges of covers. Small, diamond shaped gold stamps in the centre of upper and lower covers. Endleaves in light green paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

References

Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII (315).

OCLC

162138340

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