Shaqāʼiq al-Nuʻmānīyah fī ʻulamāʼ al-dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah

Title:

Shaqāʼiq al-Nuʻmānīyah fī ʻulamāʼ al-dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah

Creator:

Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá, 1495-1561

Date:

1584

Description:

Abstract: Elegant copy of a biographical dictionary of ʻulamāʼ and ṣūfīs, completed on 30 Ramaḍān 965 July 16, 1558.Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Scalloped gold-stamped mandorla with swirling leaves motif at the centre of the covers, outlined in gold with radiating flecks. Gold fillet and cablework border. Similar border on the envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. Slip-case with folding flap in red leather, with blue and beige marbled paper on front and back.Ms. codex.Title from preamble (fol. 9a, l. 3).21 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for headings and keywords. Red teardrop text-stops. The text is framed within a single red line (gold outlined in black frame on fol. 8b-9a). Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, blue and orange on fol. 8b. Some entries repeated in red on the margin. European paper with watermark. Fol. 1-8 are later additions. Fol. 8 consists of a latter added leaf pasted on the recto of an original folio. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. A few marginal annotations. Several inscriptions in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a and 194b. Table of contents in a magenta grid on fol. 1b-8a. Title in Arabic script on a label pasted on the right edge of the slip-case: "al-Shaqāʼiq al-Nuʻmānīyah". Title in Arabic script on a label pasted on the fore-edge flap of the slip-case: "Şakaik-i Nuʻmaniye maʻa dhaylihā fī bayān ʻulamāʼ dawlat al-ʻUthmānīyah".The date 992 H. is written at the end of the copy, followed by two lines of poetry in Ottoman turkish (fol. 193a).Incipit: الحمد لله الذى رفع بفضله طبقات العلماء وجعل اصولهم ثابتة ... وبعد فانى عندما عرفت من الشمال والمستقيم من المحال كنت مشفوفاExplicit:189ب ... ومنهم الشيخ العارف بالله الصالح صلح الدين مصطفى من خلفآء السيد احمد البخارى ... هذا آخر ما تيسر لى بعون الملك العلّام من تفصيل احوال العلمآء الاعلام ... 193أ ... واجب يا رب دعوتى وثبت حجّتى وسدد لسانى واهد قلبى واسلل سخر صدرى

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Headpieces (layout features)
Illuminated manuscripts
Slipcases

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Provenance:

Ownership statement in the name of Mekkî Bey Zade Yahyâ(?), dated 15 Ramaḍān 1225 Oct. 14, 1810 on fol. 1a. Erased ownership statement with large circular seal on fol. 8a. Seal on fol. 193a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

i, 195, i leaves: paper ; 200 x 123 (150 x 65) mm. bound to 205 x 140 mm.

Publisher:

1584?

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 251Y
Electronic Resource
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pdr2704616
Replaces: pudl0112/5169819

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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