Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 854

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DS ID:

DS14154

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Third Series no. 854

Title:

Ottoman poetical miscellany

Date:

963 [1553 or 1554

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Turkish in Arabic script

Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 228 pages : paper ; 193 x 106 (146 x 60) mm. bound to193 x 110 mm.

Note:

Physical description: pages 1-225 divided into two columns, all text within a golden frame, titles cover both columns. 21 lines per page, expertly written nasta'liq (more than one hand), illuminated opening piece (page 2), full leather Oriental binding with gilded ornamentation (borders) with marbled inside paper. Previous owners name in Latin: Haggi Osman Nuriddin (page 1). Page numbers added...
Unidentified poetical composition (mostly Mathnawi, and a number of dubayt), entitled Khazinat al-Bayan wa-Safinat al-'Irfan fi Muhimmat al-Insan wa-Maqasid al-Ginan (title on p. 13), or Nizam al-Maram (title on pp. 222, 224), or Nizam-i Balaghat (p. 220). Headings of sections are often in Persian. There is no indication of an author.
Previously owned by Haggy Osman Nuriddin (stamp on page 1).

Keyword:

Turkish poetry

Manuscripts, Turkish

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9990617863506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5c29479c-b48b-41b2-8412-3d9fd05b4296/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University