Item Summary

Unidentified Sufi prose treatise (fol. 1b-94a), described by the author as a name-yi firak or name-yi firqa (fol. 3a), and an incomplete mesnevi poem (94b-114b). Fevaid on fol. ia-1a, 115a-116b.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Sufi treatise and mesnevi].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1706
Identifier
ark:/88435/sf268d283
Publisher
[1534]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1534
Format
Manuscript
Extent
116 leaves : paper ; 185 x 113 (118 x 65) mm bound to 186 x 117 mm
Provenance
Owner's note by Mehmet Nurî Efendi on inner front cover, fol. ib. The date 1243 H [1827 or 8] is noted on fol. ia. Two owner's stamps on fol. 1a.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in miniscule nastaʻliq in black on glazed, laid European paper. Some leaves are dyed yellow. Text framed in gold on fol. 1b-2a, with small illuminated unvan in gold and blue. Remainder of text framed in red; mesnevi in two columns separated by double red lines. Fol. 1-10 and other leaves in ms. detached. Some staining, smudging, and insect damage.
Origin: 1 Rabīʻ I 941 H [10 September 1534], by Mehmet bin Yahya (fol. 94a).
Incipit (text 1): بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم مطلع انوار کلام قدىم فاتحه نسخه توقىع دىن خاتمه راء و لا الضالىن
Incipit (text 2): جو بسم الله الوبدر شکل مفتاح * انى هر فتحه مفتاح اتدى فتاح
Binding Note
Full brown leather over boards with blind-stamped central mandorla and fillets; yellow paper doublures. Front cover and first five leaves detached.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—16th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
248

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9f1689a2-4ee3-4938-8d5c-18dc9b776533/manifest