Details

Subject(s)

• Mecca (Saudi Arabia)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Medina (Saudi Arabia)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—18th century [Browse]

Summary note

Nabi's account of his pilgrimage to Mekka and Medina, composed in 1682.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a by a later hand.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid Arabic paper. Simple gold ʻunwān on fol. 1b; text framed in gold. Rubrication and catchwords. Mild staining, except on last two leaves where there is a water stain in the upper outer corner. In excellent condition.
• Incipit: اي بيت حرامى صف غفرانه مقام
• Explicit: ديدم تمامنه نابى بو نسخه نك تاريخ بو تحفهء حرمينم قبول ايده مولى

Binding note

Salmon-colored silk covers and doublures, with flap; gold-sprinkled yellow paper flyleaves.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Other format(s)

Published (Istanbul, 1265/1848).

Other title(s)

• Tühfet ül-Haremeyn
• تحفة الحرمىن

OCLC

824621723

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