Details

Subject(s)

• Divination—Turkey—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Islamic eschatology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

An incomplete version of a long unidentified masnavi in Ottoman Turkish of possibly eschatological or divinatory content. The structure of the work is arranged according to the Byzantine months of the solar year. After the introductory verse is the section on Tishrīn (October). The last month treated is Aylūl (September). Meteorological phenomena are occasionally mentioned.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 17 lines per page in two columns, written in naskh script in black on European laid paper. Headings and markings in red. Catchwords. Some damp staining. Beginning pages missing.
• Origin: Copy dated 27 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1054 A.H. (3 July 1644 A.D.) (colophon on recto of last leaf).

Binding note

Full-cloth oriental binding with blind stamped ornamentation on the borders.

Source acquisition

Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2009/11/11 (2010-53).

OCLC

475482198

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