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An autobiographical travel book by a Nakşibendi derviş Hâkî Dede, containing descriptions of places through which he travelled and accounts of famous personages from his time, including the Özbek Han Abdullah Han (1580-1598) and Persian Şah Abbas (1587-1629). The work is chiefly in verse, with a few sections of prose. Given that the work contains a section on Istanbul, and Hâkî Dede arrived to Istanbul "towards the end of Mehmed III's reign" (1595-1603) (see S̲üreyyā, Sicill-i ʻOs̲mānī, II, p. 264), the work must have been composed between ca. 1600 and 1617, and an ownership date of 1618-19 (see ownership note below) indicates that the copy was made before 1619, so possibly while Hâkî Dede was still alive.
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- Publisher
- [between 1600 and 1619]
- People
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- Language
- Ottoman Turkish
- Subject
- Voyages and travels—1450-1800—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Middle East—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Khurāsān (Iran)—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Baghdad (Iraq)—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Istanbul (Turkey)—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
- Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century
- Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century
- Poetry
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Item Summary
An autobiographical travel book by a Nakşibendi derviş Hâkî Dede, containing descriptions of places through which he travelled and accounts of famous personages from his time, including the Özbek Han Abdullah Han (1580-1598) and Persian Şah Abbas (1587-1629). The work is chiefly in verse, with a few sections of prose. Given that the work contains a section on Istanbul, and Hâkî Dede arrived to Istanbul "towards the end of Mehmed III's reign" (1595-1603) (see S̲üreyyā, Sicill-i ʻOs̲mānī, II, p. 264), the work must have been composed between ca. 1600 and 1617, and an ownership date of 1618-19 (see ownership note below) indicates that the copy was made before 1619, so possibly while Hâkî Dede was still alive.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مناقب درويش خاكي.
- Transliterated Title
- Menakıb-i Derviş Hâkî.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 494
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/s4655g642
- Publisher
- [between 1600 and 1619]
- Language
- Ottoman Turkish
- Date Created
- 1600-1619
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 66 leaves : paper ; 202 x 140 (153 x 102) mm. bound to 202 x 144 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature on fol. 1a by Nasuh Aǧa, a çavuş at the Imperial Palace (in Istanbul), dated 1028 (1618-19).
- Source Acquisition
- Purchase; Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium, 2003/1/28 (2003-82).
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 1a.
- Ms. additions: a biographical note on fol. 3a on Hâkî Dede, in which he is identified as a Nakşibendi, and we are told that he travelled to India, China, the Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Baghdad; an inscription reading "Bende Muslimân" on fol. 1a; two couplets of poetry on fol. 2a, signed Mehmet.
- 13 lines per page. Written in an elegant medium large naskh in black ink with use of red ink for headings. Text is written inside a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink, mostly in two columns separated with two lines in gold and black ink. Fol. 4b-5a have double gold-leaf frame, with margins and the space between the columns decorated with floral pattern painted in gold ink. Fol. 4b has an illuminated head piece executed in gold leaf with blue, red, orange, purple and white watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks.
- Incipit: حمد لله اول خدايي بر كمال ويردي غالم خلقينه رزق ونوال
- Explicit: قبول اولسون دعامز پاك اوله دين تمآم اولدي ولا الضالين آمين
- Binding Note
- Brown leather over pasteboard with blind fillets around borders of covers.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Voyages and travels—1450-1800—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Middle East—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Khurāsān (Iran)—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Baghdad (Iraq)—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Istanbul (Turkey)—Description and travel—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Turkish poetry—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
- Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century
- Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century
- Poetry
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 138
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ec3d286a-d870-484d-bfaf-a4e658c0bd1e/manifest