Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Ahmet Tevhit, 1807-1869 or 1870 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A divan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Copied by Ahmet Tevhit ibn el-Şeyh İsmail Hakkı, in the zaviye of Necar-zade, and completed on 4 of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1236 (1821) -- colophon (fol. 46a). An inscription on fol. 1a to the effect that this is the hand of Ahmet Tevhit Efendi, the son of Şeyh Hakkı Efendi and a former Minister of bequests ("Evkaf-i Hümayun Naziri"). For more information on the scribe see Ṭāhir, ʻOs̲mānlĭ Müʼellifleri, 3, p. 258.
• 19 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper (some of it stained yellow).
• Incipit: اى باعث ايجاد نظام دوسرا مخلوق سنك نامكه جمله اشيا
• Explicit: عكس چشمك كوريجك جام فى ناب ايجره صانديلر نركس تردر كل شاد اب ايجره

Binding note

Half leather with envelope flap. Marbled paper on covers and the envelope flap with brown leather on spine, fore edge flap and around the edges of covers. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in cream paper sprinkled in brown. Lining to the fore edge flap in green fabric.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership signature on fol. 1a in the name of Mir Hüseyin, dated 1208 (1793-94) [error?].
• 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

166509299

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