Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 385

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DS ID:

DS6615

Shelfmark:

MS Or 385

Title:

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

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:

Manuscript codex.
Title from introduction (f. 3r).
Layout: 21 long lines with marginalia; catchwords every verso.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red, including headings and overlining.
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).
Shelfmark: MS Or 385.

Keyword:

commentaries

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

Islamic bindings

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Turkish

Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550. Tuḥfe-yi Şāhidī--Criticism and interpretation

Turkish poetry

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642684

IIIF Manifest:

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

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library