Item Summary

A divan.

Descriptive Information

Title
كليات حضرت مثالى ... : حضرتلرك ديوانى شريفى.
Transliterated Title
Külliyat-i hazret-i Misalî ... : hazretlerin divan-i şerifi.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1942Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc70795k14s
Publisher
[1873 or 1874]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1873
Format
Manuscript
Extent
289 leaves : paper ; 242 x 178 (168 x 110) mm. bound to 242 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1b.
Copied by Seyit Mehmet Hulusî in 1290 (1873-74) -- colophon (fol. 286a).
18 lines per page. Written in a medium sized naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a single line frame in red ink. On fol. 1b the frame is further outlined with a thick line of (faded) gold. Same fol. has a simple illuminated head piece (ʻunwān) made with gold leaf and red ink, with the title inside, also in red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Dark cream wove paper. Fol. 286b-289b blank.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم از كبريا يعنى تأويله شروع اولدى از سر ابتدا
Explicit: به عارف اولدر اى مثالي بى تعصب كوستره حيدرى احمد له وشير خدادن خاتمى
Binding Note
Brown leather with evidence of envelope flap which is now missing. Gold border design on covers. Small gold motif made with 8 radiating sprigs in the centre of upper and lower covers. Endleaves in glossy green paper embossed in floral pattern. Front flyleaf and fol. 1 loose.

Discovery Information

Subject
Turkish poetry
Sufi poetry, Turkish
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
582

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1a060fc8-f132-469e-b84b-4ba11b76160d/manifest