- Language(s)
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Turkish, Ottoman
- Published
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[17--?]
- Summary
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Elegant copy of Tacüʻt-tevarih, the celebrated history of the Ottomans from their beginnings to the death of Selim I (r.1512-1520) carefully composed by the well-known Ottoman şeyhülislam, statesman and historian, Hoca Sadeddin Efendi (d.1599). Descriptive contributions from Nick Krabbenhoeft.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 381
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. suggest 18th century.
Former shelfmark: "177 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on recto of front flyleaf.
Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather with dark red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in silver-flecked orange paper, hinge and pastedown once covered with pink wove paper ; upper and lower covers block-stamped with gold-painted vegetal design and central mandorla of blue paper, red paper, and green silk covered by gilded leather filigree and surrounded by pendants and cornerpieces as well as tooled border and block-stamped, gilded rectangles above and below, band of red paper, blue paper, and green silk lozenges covered with gilded leather filigree, flanked by tooled borders in gold, and surrounded by tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps in gold ; sewn in red thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light green, dark blue, and pink thread ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, pest damage, loss areas, and corner damage, large losses in upper pastedown.
Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; first type with roughly 12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 22 mm. apart, burnished, thin and crisp with watermark of grapes surmounted by a cartouche inscribed with "I R" and a crown motif (see p.184, etc., compare 2384 in Heawood lf. 94, Raison no. 22, p.28, 385 in Velkov, Les Filigranes dans les documents Ottomans, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1727) ; second type with roughly 13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) spaced roughly 25 mm. apart, burnished, thin and crisp with watermark of grapes surmounted by a cartouche inscribed with "GAILLIARDON [?]" and a crown motif (see p.200, etc., compare Raisin no.30 A, pp.28-29, 52, 387 in Velkov, appearing in a ms. transcribed in Istanbul, 1749).
Decoration: Superb illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.2 consisting of a rectanglular piece with empty gold cartouche surrounded by vegetal designs in pink, red, white, and gold on a blue field surmounted by a w-shaped piece filled with vegetal designs in pink, red, white, and gold on a blue field with delicate vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue above, all set in a well of red bands with white crosses, a thick band of geometric interlace, and a thin blue band with white crosses ; additional illuminated headpieces on pages 451, 609, and 932 less elaborate than the initial headpiece and each with scalloped semi-circular piece surmounting similar rectangular piece ; text of written area surrounded by frame consisting of a thick gold band defined by black fillets, divisions within defined by thin gold bands outlined by black fillets ; keywords and headings mainly rubricated but also supplied in blue ink (p.154-159), in orange ink (p.438-450), and chrysographed (after p.1218) in certain sections ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas mainly in dark red but supplied in blue ink p.154-159, in orange ink p.438-450, and chrysographed after p.1218).
Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand in a medium line ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, and pointing mainly in conjoined dots.
Layout: Written in 25 lines per page, occasionally divided to two or three columns to set off poetry ; frame-ruled.
Collation: ii, 63 V (630), IV+1 (639), i ; chiefly quinions ; oblique catchwords on the verso of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.
Explicit: "وبارك لنا فيهم و جعلنا في لاآخرة من مجاوريهم "
Incipit: "ابتدى بسم ربى المتعال مالك الملك واهب الامال ..."
Title from inscription on added 'title page' (front flyleaf).
Ms. codex.
Kabīkaj invocation ("يا كبكيج" [sic]) on front flyleaf ; inscription in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals "1200" on front flyleaf ; traces of three oval seal impressions on 'title page' (p.1) as well as rectangular (fairly square) seal impression (inscription fairly illegible) ; inscription in purple colored pencil on p.1277 "105 DR, AR" ; relatively clean copy with occasional marginal glosses.
- Physical Description
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639 leaves :
paper ;
285 x 160 (190 x 75) mm