Details

Subject(s)

• Turkish poetry—18th century [Browse]
• Sufi poetry, Turkish—18th century [Browse]
• Masnavis, Turkish—18th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A Sufi poem in mesnevi form.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Copied by Avnî Dede Zade Derviş İbrahim Mevlevi and completed on the 23rd of Shaʻbān 1226 (1811) -- colophon (fol. 80b).
• 15 lines per page. Written in a medium small casual hand (tending towards nastaʻlīq) in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame in red ink. On ff. 1b-2a the frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks. Worm damage to paper throughout.
• Incipit: حمد آكه كه قلدى خلقه رحمت تحميدده عجزه ويردى رخصت
• Explicit: غالب بو جريده جفانك تاريخى اولور ختامه المسك

Binding note

Half leather binding with marbled paper over pasteboard on covers and red leather on spine and around cover edges. Evidence of envelope flap which is now missing. Endleaves in light blue stained paper. Worm damage close to the spine.

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.

OCLC

181590734

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