- Language(s)
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Turkish, Ottoman
- Published
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[1682]
- Summary
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Careful copy of a collection (mecmua / majmūʻah) of miscellaneous excerpts in prose and verse.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 851
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.106, copied by Ömer bin Osman with transcription completed 29 Muḥarram 1093 [ca. 7 February 1682].
Accompanying materials: a. Part of a page taken from a book or catalogue (reverse carries image and caption) with description in black ink "Turkish MS | Miscellanies, stories and short poems, neatly copied in various handwritings. 8 vo., ms. in Turkish, native gilt binding, ?early 19th century" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip with description in pencil in hand of Husselman [?] "Turkish | ʻAṭāʼī (991-1044 AH) Wrote a divan & a Khamsah. cf. BM Cat. Turk. MS. p.195. (cf. Gibb, Ottoman poems, p.207) ... Dichtkunst, v. 3, p.244 and Niẓāmī" and on reverse "ATTAY - Divan, or coll. of poems (Arabia - 17--?)" (paginated pp.3-4).
Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in dark brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in European laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry central gold-tooled ornament of geometric interlace, roughly diamond shape with pendants and radiating strokes, along with tooled and gold painted border ; red and leather onlays at head and tail of spine, accented with gold-stamped bands ; title gold stamped over green leather onlay on spine "EXTRAITS DE DIVERS OUVRAGES EN LANGUE TURQUE" ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; worked endbands in dark blue and cream, damaged with only traces remaining ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather at spine, etc.
Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of Paschal lamb in four-lobed circle (see p.54, etc.) and star above arms with three bars (see p.68, 69, etc.), well-burnished, sturdy, cream in color ; some leaves tinted pink (carrying pp.113-114, 151-152, 157-158, 167-168), mint green (carrying pp.97-98, 107-108), etc.
Decoration: Keywords and excerpts rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.
Script: Naskh and nastaʻlīq (talik) ; naskh an elegant Ottoman hand in a narrow line, mainly serifless though occasional irregular head-serif on lām or free-standing alif, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing mainly in conjoined dots or strokes, extensively vocalized ; nastaʻlīq (talik) an elegant Ottoman hand in a medium line, serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 13-15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, 2 V(20), V-1 (29), II (33), 2 V(53), IV+1 (62), V (72), V+1 (83), V (93), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تاريخ تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى تاسع وعشرين محرم الحرام فى وقت العصر على عبد الضعيف المذنب المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى عمر ابن عثمان سنه ثلاث وتسعين والف"
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
"SS" gold-stamped in upper cover ; calligraphic inscriptions on upper pastedown ; poetic excerpts on recto of front flyleaf (p.5) ; on verso of front flyleaf (p.6) bookplate reads, "In Memory of | STEPHEN SPAULDING | 1907-1925 | CLASS of 1927 | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | W H W Bicknell 1927" ; UM Library inscription on 'title page' (p.7) "MS & Papyri | Stephen Spaulding Mem Coll | Quaritch | 8-15-39 | SS1480" ; former owners' marks on lower pastedown include statement dated 1098 [1686 or 7] and octagonal seal impression, as well as book price "$40--" ; occasional glosses.
- Physical Description
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93 leaves :
paper ;
203 x 133 (145-147 x 77-80) mm