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Subject(s)

• Fatwas—Turkey—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic law—Sources—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic cosmology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Zoology—Islamic Empire—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A work of encyclopeadic nature by Mahmut bin Kadı Manyas, known as Manyas oǧlu (see start of text), covering questions of fiqh (in a section written in the form of fetvas), science, including subjects of mathematics and animals, and ʻilm al-ḥurūf. Title in Ṭāhir, ʻOM, given as: "Acab ül-acayip".

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Copied by Mehmet bin Abdullah in 841 (1437-38) -- colophon (fol. 83b).
• 13 lines per page. Text is written in black ink with use of red for rubrication, inside a single line frame in red ink. Glazed paper with prominent pulp and no chain or laid lines visible. Short inscriptions on verso of front flyleaf and fol. 1a. A small almond shaped stamp on fol. 1a and 1b. Some marginal annotations. Short inscriptions and numerical tables and lists on the inside of both covers.
• Incipit:الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة علي اقضل رسله محمد وآله اجمعين وبعد فيقول اضعف الناس واحوجهم الي الملك الناس محمود بن قاضي منياس المشهور بمنياس اوغلي
• Explicit: نظر اكه ارشمش دكلدر والحمد لله على اتمام والصلوة اولا واخرا على افضل رسله محمد واله تمت

Binding note

Green fabric covering original binding in leather. Pastedowns in yellow paper. Flyleaves in marbled paper.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Other title(s)

• Aʻjab al-ʻujāb
• اعجب العجاب
• Acab ül-ucab
• Acab ül-acayip

OCLC

182870999

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