Item Summary

A mystical poem in mesnevi style. The copy is incomplete and lacks beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
غرببنامه
Transliterated Title
Garipname
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 264
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc47429q801
Publisher
[between 15--? and 1740]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1500-1740
Extent
278 leaves : paper ; 212 x 142 (174 x 105) mm. bound to 220 x 150 mm.
References
Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 2 (20), XIII, 3 (275).
GHB Sarajevo, Katalog arapskih, turskih, perzijskih i bosanskih rukopisa, XIII (7699).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 278a).
11 lines per page. Written in a medium sized naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a double line frame in red ink, in two columns also separated with two lines of red ink. Thick glazed paper with uneven chain lines. Two inscriptions by pervious owners on fol. 1a, one with the date 1152 (1739-40).
Incipit (as extant): بس بو قدرت جمله علمك جاندر ذات اجنده بر توي ين داندر
Explicit: هركه دكلر سا بو سوزي اي جليل رحمتوك اولسون اكا هر دم دليل تمام شد دآستان عاشق باشا رحمة آلله عليه
Binding Note
Paper over pasteboard with envelope flap. The paper is marbled, but only visible on the envelope flap; on covers worn to olive-brown color. Brown leather on spine and the fore edge flap. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Masnavis, Turkish—Early works to 1800
Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800
Mysticism—Islam—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
560

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/54ce2b77-12a0-45e2-8e2f-d5cff1c344f3/manifest