Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 385

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DS ID:

DS6615

Shelfmark:

MS Or 385

Title:

Tuḥfat al-ʻirfān / تحفة العرفان

Tuḥfat al-ʻirfān

Author:

Narḫīzāde, Muḥammed Muṣīb, active 1720

Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde WIKIDATA

Place:

Turkey

Turkey TGN

Date:

between 1720 and 1775?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Ottoman Turkish

Ottoman Turkish WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 119 leaves : paper ; 218 x 160 (160 x 85) mm, bound to 222 x 162 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Decoration: Rubrications in red, including headings and overlining.
Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia; catchwords every verso.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Copy completed in the mid-18th century, probably in Turkey. The preface indicates that the writer left Istanbul in 1133 A.H. (1720 or 1721 CE) to go to Cyprus and he wrote the work there (f. 1v).
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Shelfmark: MS Or 385.
Title from introduction (f. 3r).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

full covers

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Islamic bindings

blind-tooled (decoration)

Manuscripts, Turkish

Turkish poetry

Sixteenth century

Criticism and interpretation

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13884819

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642684_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library