Item Summary

An anonymous Ottoman military history of the Serbian front, written with the intention of being a guide to that region and covering the period from the conquest of Belgrade in 1521 to the year 1685-86. According to the text (see incipit), it was composed at the request of the Sultan (Süleyman II (ruled 1687-1691)?).

Descriptive Information

Title
تاريخ بلغراد.
Transliterated Title
Tarih-i Belgrad.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 443
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dv13zt28z
Publisher
[1731 or 1732]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1731
Extent
32 leaves : paper ; 212 x 139 (165 x 86) mm. bound to 212 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 3a, neither of them dated, one in the name of Befevaid [?] Zade Hacı Mehmet Efendi, and the other in the name of Ali.
Source Acquisition
Purchase; Het Oosters Antiquarian, 2000/7/31 (2001-03).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 3a.
Copied in 1144 (1731 or 1732) -- colophon (fol. 30b).
23 lines per page. Written in a casual small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Fol. 3b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with overlaid floral motif in green, orange, red and white watercolors, and with radiating sprigs in blue watercolor along the top edge. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper, most of it light cream, with a few sheets of dark cream and light purple stained paper.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انزل علي نبيه وجاهدوا في سبيل الله حق جهاده ... وبعد اشبو رساله وبر صورت اولنماسنه باعث ولي النعم حضرتلرينك حاكباي عاليلر ينه عرض قلنمشدر كه سبب تذكر وترحم اوله
Explicit: تاريخ هجرتك بيك طقسان يدي در كه اول زمانندن بري قرق التي قرال اولمشدر
Binding Note
Brown leather on spine and around edges of covers, the latter decorated with a gold guilloche and two gold fillets. Olive and green foliage motif glazed paper on covers. Pastedowns in dark cream paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Turkey—History, Military—Early works to 1800
Turkey—History—1453-1683—Early works to 1800
Turkey—History—Mehmed IV, 1648-1687—Early works to 1800
Belgrade (Serbia)—History, Military—Early works to 1800
Serbia—History—1456-1804—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—18th century
Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—18th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
68

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/58d2cce7-66ea-4748-b0c7-a5986fa256ec/manifest