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Subject(s)

• Turkey—History—Rebellion, 1703—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkey—History—1683-1829—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Şefik Mehmet Efendi Masrafzade -1715—Şefikname [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Mehmet Şefik's Şefikname, a history of the 1703 revolt.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1b.
• Copied by Mehmet el-Zehrî, known as Yenişehrî, a pupil of İbrahim el-Hatip Zade, and completed on the 10th of Jumādá al-Ākhir 1167 (1754) -- colophon (fol. 94a).
• 23 lines per page. Written in a medium sized naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame outlined in red ink. On fol. 1b-2a the frames are in gold leaf outlined in black ink. Fol. 1b has an illuminated head piece in gold leaf with blue, purple, white and orange watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks, some of it re-glazed with egg-albumen.
• Incipit: يقول عبد الله الفقير اليه محمد بن الحاج مصلى تجاوز الله عنه اللهم انا نحمدك على ما خلقتنا من سبع فى السبعين ... وبعد هجرتك بيك يوز اون بشنجى سنه سى اوئلنده
• Explicit: اموت ويبقى كل ما قد كتبته فيا ليت من يقرء خطوطى دعاليا لعل الهى يعف عنى بفضله ويغفر زلاتى وسؤ فعاليا

Binding note

Marbled paper (faded to uniform cream color) over pasteboard on covers with brown leather on spine and around cover edges. Evidence of envelope flap which is now missing. Pastedowns in yellow paper.

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, 1 (174).

OCLC

182553682

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