Item Summary

A well-known work on the lives of the theologians and doctors who lived under the Ottoman Sultans. Autograph copy.

Descriptive Information

Title
الشقايق النعمانية في علماء الدولة العثمانية.
Transliterated Title
al-Shaqāyiq al-Nuʻmānīyah fī ʻulamāʼ al-Dawlah al-ʻUthmānīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 212H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0k225k197
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1558
Extent
261 leaves : paper ; 180 x 134 (125 x 75) mm bound to 180 x 123 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: ʻAbd al-Jalīl and a seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 704.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 65.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 74.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 364.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. On the title page occur a table of contents, a statement about the number of folios in the MS and another title for the book, Tadhkirat al-ʻulamāʼ. On folio 1a and 261b are waqf statements in the name of ʻAbd al-ʻAẓīm ibn ʻUmar to Maktab ʻUthmān Afandī dated 1172. After the colopon is "Sukrʹnāmah-i ḥukamā" (fol. [i]b)
Collation: Paper ; fol. 261 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 26 Shawwāl 965 in Qusṭanṭinīyah (fol. 261a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي رفع بفضله طبقات العلماء وجعل اصواهم ثابية وفروعهم في السماء ... وبعد فانى منذ ما عرفت اليمين من الشمال ...
Colophon: نجزت المقابلة والتصحيح بقدر الامکان ... في يوم الخميس السادس والعشرين من شهر شوّال المبارك عمت ميامنه لسنة خمس وستين وتسعمائة بمحروسة قسطنطنية المحمية حماها الله عن الآفات والبلية امين يا ربّ العالمين تمت الکتاب
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Tan paper pastedowns. Flap is missing. Modern spine repair.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
528

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c85790ee-5f3e-4aa2-9ee2-ba7154d2d449/manifest