Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1625

Metadata

DS ID:

DS14264

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1625

Title:

Mirkat ul-lûghat

Place:

Giannitsa

Yiannitsá TGN

Date:

1594

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ottoman Turkish and Arabic

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 185 leaves : paper ; 207 x 150 (185 x 90) mm bound to 207 x 154 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from text on fol. 2a.
Lower edge title: Lûgat-i mikat.
Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Turkish equivalents written interlinearly on a diagonal. Foliated erroneously in Arabic script; record follows correct Western foliation. Lacuna of two leaves after fol. 62. Damp stained and mildewed; some leaves torn. Edges are ragged. In fair condition.
Origin: The middle of Jumādá II 1002 H [March 1594], in Yenice-i Vardar [Giannitsa], by Ahmet bin Mehmet el-Vardarî (fol. 184b).
On fol. 1a, owner's stamps and a note by Muḥammad ibn ... dated 1178 H [1764 or 5]. Smudged owner's stamps on fol. 1b-2a. On fol. 185a, note by Yaḥyá ibn al-Ḥājjī ʻAbbās dated 15 Jumādá [I] 1222 H [21 July 1807]. On fol. 185b, note of purchase by ʻUthmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṭavīrānī dated 1047 H [1637 or 8].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Turkish

Manuscripts, Arabic

Arabic language

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9972956413506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University