Item Summary

Kınalızade's work on ethics in 3 books (kitāb) composed in 1565.

Descriptive Information

Title
[اخلاق علائي]
Transliterated Title
[Ahlak-i alâî].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1175H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6d570836s
Publisher
[1649]
Date Created
1649
Extent
259 leaves : paper ; 198 x 133 (150 x 82) mm. bound to 200 x 135 mm.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Ms. additions: Numerous inscriptions on front and back flyleaves (ff. 2a-6a, 9b,10a, 248b-259a), in different paper to the main body of the manuscript and consisting of fetvas, many of them by Ebussuud Efendi, a number of quotations, and verse. One of these, several lines of poetry on fol. 254b, is dated 1053 (1643-44), which means that at least some of the flyleaves were already inscribed when they were added at binding. Ff. 6b, 8b and 9a have a table of contents for the main text. Label on cover with number "62".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 259 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (starts on fol. 11) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; glazed European paper.
Decoration: Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (fol. 10b-11a).
Incipit: درر زواهر حمد وثنا وغرر ظواهر سپاس وستايش كه كثرت افراد فرايدينه سلك شهور وايامده احتمال اجتماع وانتظام
Explicit: وعليه التكلان انه مفضل منعم حنان سلطان ديان تمت رسالهء مجموعهء مكارم الاخلاق بعون الملك الخلاق
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather with a gold-tooled border design made with a guilloche roll with two fillets on either side and six rosetta stamps. Pastedowns in light orange paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
526

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f3ed85ee-5340-43ef-bcf4-f2944df9548c/manifest