Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1706

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS14448

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts New Series no. 1706

Title:

Sufi treatise and mesnevi

Date:

1534

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Turkish in Arabic script

Turkish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 116 leaves : paper ; 185 x 113 (118 x 65) mm bound to 186 x 117 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Some leaves are dyed yellow. Text framed in gold on fol. 1b-2a, with small illuminated unvan in gold and blue. Remainder of text framed in red; mesnevi in two columns separated by double red lines. Fol. 1-10 and other leaves in ms. detached. Some staining, smudging, and insect damage.
Origin: 1 Rabīʻ I 941 H [10 September 1534], by Mehmet bin Yahya (fol. 94a).
Owner's note by Mehmet Nurî Efendi on inner front cover, fol. ib. The date 1243 H [1827 or 8] is noted on fol. ia. Two owner's stamps on fol. 1a.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Turkish

illuminated manuscripts

New Jersey--Princeton

Sufism

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9973463813506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9f1689a2-4ee3-4938-8d5c-18dc9b776533/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University