كتاب بحر معارف.

Kitab-ı Bahr-ı maarif.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
Published/​Created
[1557]
Description
144 leaves : paper, ill. ; 204 x 116 (153 x 68) mm. bound to 206 x 117 mm.

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    Summary note
    A textbook on prosody, dedicated to Prince Mustafa, son of Suleyman the Magnificent.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from fol. 1b.
    • Physical description: 19 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginalia. Simple illuminated header in gold and red on fol. 1b. Some dampstaining and paper repairs, with no loss of text. Includes charts and diagrams.
    • Origin: Text completed on 11 Ṣafar 956 AH (11 March 1549); this copy completed during Muḥarram 965 AH (October-November 1557) by Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Jawrī (fol. 144b).
    Binding note
    Full brown leather with tooled fillets.
    Language note
    Turkish in Arabic script.
    Provenance
    Owner's stamp and statement by Muṣṭafá ibn Ismāʻīl (fol. 1a).
    Source acquisition
    Purchase; Bouwman Oriental Books, 2010/3/29 (2010-106).
    Other title(s)
    • Bahr-ı maarif
    • بحر معارف
    OCLC
    593974044
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