Item Summary

One of Yahyâ Bey's five mathnāwīs.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شاه وكدا]
Transliterated Title
[Şah ve geda].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1172H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwd376803g
Publisher
[15--?]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
72 leaves : paper ; 188 x 110 (130 x 60) mm bound to 188 x 112 mm.
Provenance
A signature accompanied by two seals on fol. 1a reads: "min el-muhlis Abdullah Bey". A rectangular seal impression with the name of Feyzullah [?], dated 1212 (1797-98), on fol. 60a and again on fol. 71b.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by the cataloger.
Ms. additions: some additional verses, prayers and other short inscriptions in later hands on ff. 70b-72b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ;
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece with the basmalah written in gold. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black (fol. 1b-2a).
Incipit: سطر بسم الله اي اولو الالباب اولدى مفتاح قفل باب كتاب
Explicit: عين عفو كله اول بزه ناظر سوزمز بودر اول وآخر
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on cover. Similar decoration on flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in light blue marbled paper with green and yellow painted motifs.

Discovery Information

Subject
Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800
Masnavis, Turkish—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
156

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c4941872-f554-4a76-9ca0-5ae74add418e/manifest