Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 753

Metadata

DS ID:

DS14067

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 753

Title:

Kitab-ı Bahr-ı maarif

Author:

Surūrī, Muṣliḥ al-Dīn, 1492-1562 / سروري، مصلح الدين

Muslih al-Din Sururi WIKIDATA

Date:

1557

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Turkish in Arabic script

Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 144 leaves : paper, ill. ; 204 x 116 (153 x 68) mm. bound to 206 x 117 mm.

Note:

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).
Owner's stamp and statement by Muṣṭafá ibn Ismāʻīl (fol. 1a).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Turkish

Turkish language--Versification

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9960661833506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University