شمسيه

Title:

شمسيه

Alternative title:

Melheme

Creator:

Yazıcı Salahuddin

Date:

1459

Description:

Abstract: An astrometeorological treatise in verse, one of the earliest known Turkish works on the subject (for more on this and the author see Ṭāhir, ʻOs̲malĭ Müʾellifleri, III).Binding note: "Burnished brown leather with envelope flap. Blind tooled panel design on coversBinding note: consisting of a narrow blind guilloche and several fillets around the bordersBinding note: and two filletsBinding note: one running vertically and one horizontally through the middle of the coverBinding note: with four 'lilly' stamps forming a diamond shape in the center. Same design on the envelope flap with a single 'lilly' stamp. Blind tooled panel design on the fore edge flap made with guilloche and fillets. Pastedowns in light blue paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in red leather. Lining to the envelope flap in light brown paper. Sewing is torn and the entire ms. is loose inside the binding."Ms. codex.Title supplied by the cataloger.Copy completed in 864 (1459-60) -- colophon (fol. 202b)."13 lines per page. Written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written in two columns and is vocalised throughout. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Several short inscriptions in a later hand on fol. 1a203b and 204b. Glazed paper with visible laid linessometimes visible uneven chain lines and 'scissors' watermark. Water damage and repairs to the paper throughout."'Incipit: اي خداوند قديم لم يزل خالق الاشيا ابدسن هم ازل'Explicit: روز شب اولدي تمام اشبو كتاب خيراا و الله اعلم باللصواب

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Astrometeorology—Islamic countries—Early works to 1800

Extent:

204 leaves : paper ; 210 x 140 (170 x 100) mm. bound to 210 x 145 mm.

Publisher:

1459 or 60

Rights:

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

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 456
Electronic Resource
"<a href='http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5999n3448' alt='Identifier'>http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5999n3448</a>"
ph415q7731
Replaces: pudl0032/3s456

Is part of:

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

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