Item Summary

Nabi's Tarih-i Kaminçe, followed by a short autobiographical text set in Baghdad at the end of the 17th century.

Descriptive Information

Title
[تاريخ قمنجه] ... [الخ]
Transliterated Title
[Tarih-i Kaminçe] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 2030
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2r36v1277
Publisher
[1834]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1834
Format
Manuscript
Extent
38 leaves : paper ; 210 x 142 (143 x 82) mm bound to 210 x 148 mm.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. Fol. 2b-32b: [Tarih-i Kaminçe / Nabi]. Nabi's account of the Ottoman conquest of the fortress of Kamieniec in 1672.
2. Fol. 33b-37b: [An autobiographical note / Mehmet [?] ]. A short autobiographical text by a certain Mehmet [?] set in Baghdad at the end of the 17th century.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Several couplets of verse on fol. 1b in a later hand.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Written in a small ruqʻah in black ink with use of red. Texts are continuous, both are written in same hand and on same paper. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper, stained yellow.
Decoration: Both texts have illuminated headpieces of gold, pink, orange, blue and red and opening spreads are frame-ruled within a double gold leaf frame outlined in black ink (fol. 2b-3a and fol. 33b-34a). Floral tail pieces in gold ink on fol. 32b and 37a.
Origin: [An autobiographical note] Colophon dated beginning of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1249 (1834).
Incipit: [تاريخ قمنجه] بى نام خدا سخنده تاثير اولمز بى رهبر حمد سوزجهانكير اولمز -- [An autobiographical note] الحمد لله الخالق الحى الذى لا يموت ولاينام ... اما بعد خامة سحرساز وقايع نويس وخوشخدام بو طور مرغوب
Explicit: [تاريخ قمنجه] عدونده خنچر خارستمله بغرى خون اولسون -- [An autobiographical note] و محبتلرى حد چندان ترقى وتزايد يوله بيت ديدى ايشيدوب سروش خوش خير آمين آمين
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and brown marbled paper over pasteboard. Endleaves and lining to the envelope flap in glazed light green stained paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Kam'i︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)—History—17th century—Early works to 1800
Turkey—History—Mehmed IV, 1648-1687—Early works to 1800
Baghdad (Iraq)—History—17th century—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
tailpieces (layout features)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
86

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6f2481b7-b91b-4c9c-9b4d-f8d3187ea25b/manifest