Details

Subject(s)

• Vefa Şeyh d. 1490—Ruzname-yi Şeyh Vefa [Browse]
• شيخ وفاء—روزنامخء شيخ وفاء [Browse]
• Islamic calendar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Vefa, Şeyh, d. 1490. Ruzname-yi Şeyh Vefa. [Browse]
• شيخ وفاء. روزنامخء شيخ وفاء. [Browse]

Summary note

An expanded and revised version of Şeyh Vefa's perpetual calendar, Ruzname-yi Şeyh Vefa. According to the beginning of the text, the work was composed in 1017 (1608-9) for the governor of Egypt Mehmed Paşa. Author's name is not given in the text (see notes in VOHD).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from label on upper cover. Uniform title from VOHD (see reference below).
• The ms. has no colophon but a partialy obliterated note on fol. 20b bears the date: 11 Rajab 1121 (1709).
• Work is chiefly tables, outlined in red ink and filled in red, black and green, in medium small to small naskh. The text only pages (i.e. the introduction) are written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication, and have 28 lines per page. Thick cream glazed paper with chain lines and "three crescents" watermarks.
• Incipit: الحمد لله مهول الشهور والاعوام و ... اما بعد باعث تحرير وتسويد كلمات بو در كه تاريخ هجرت نبويه على صاحبها افضل التحيه نك بيك اون يدي سالنده كه
• Explicit: وتحتها برج الحمل والقمر فى ذلك المنزله والبرج والله اعلم بالصواب

Binding note

Purple paper over pasteboard. Label on upper cover: "386" in Arabic and Western numerals.

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, 5 (177).
• Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 242-3.

OCLC

166394821

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