Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A free version of the mesnevi by Jāmī, written in 897 H [1491 or 1492] (Rieu); followed by notes on fo. 154a-156b.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from notes on fol. 156a.
• Physical description: 19 lines per page, in two columns; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. According to foliation in Arabic script, first seven leaves are missing; fol. 39-44 belong after fol. 23 and fol. 45-52 belong after fol. 25. Lacunae after fol. 23, 25, 44. Some staining and mild insect damage.
• Origin: 15 Shawwāl 975 H [13 April 1568] (fol. 153b).

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and blind-tooled fillets; yellow paper doublures.

Language note

Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Ex libris of A.S. Yahuda on inner front cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Rieu, C. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum, 169

OCLC

840506902

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