المؤلف
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Karīm
تاريخ النشر
1451-81 (CE, Gregorian)
النوع
كتاب
اللغة
العربية
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
نعم
عدد الصفحات
1
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
202 x 132mm
المكتبة
مكتبة قطر الرقمية
معرف أصل المكتبة
Or 5099
رقم السجل
vdc_100110634919.0x000001
موقع المكتبة
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
التاريخ
1451-81 (CE, Gregorian)
ملاحظات
A manual on cookery in ten chapters (أبواب), composed by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Karīm, known as al-Kātib al-Baghdādī (محمد بن الحسن بن الكريم الكاتب البغدادي, d. 1239/40) in 623/1226.
The present copy lacks a
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, however an inscription in gold ink outlined in black records that the volume was commissioned for the Ottoman Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān ibn Murād Khān (برسم مطالعة السلطان [...] محمد خان بن مراد خان, f. 2r), identifiable as Muḥammad II Fātiḥ (The Conqueror, r. 1444-46; 1451-81), son of Murād II (r. 1421-44).
The
Kitāb al-ṭabīkh
was popular at the Ottoman court in the mid- to late-15th century, as testified by the translation (with additions) into Turkish made by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Shirwānī [Şirvani] under Murād II, [
Kitabü't-Tabih: Abbasi Bağdat'ından yemekler, tatlılar, çeşniler
(İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2009)].
The page containing the sultanic dedication (f. 2r) also bears a marginal inscription referring to the text; one of two occurrences of the
ṭughrā
seal of Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512), successor of Muḥammad II (it is found again on f. 98v), and an inscription mentioning an Inspector [of Endowments of Mecca and Medina] (المفتش) and oval seal at the bottom of the page.
These features are now obscured by another (re-used) leaf bearing a
waqf
inscription, pasted on top. Its text records the volume's endowment by Sulṭān ʿUthmān Khān ibn al-Sulṭān Muṣṭafá Khān (عثمان خان ابن السلطان مصطفى خان), identifiable with ʿUthmān [Osman] III (r. 1754-57), son of Muṣṭafá II (r. 1695-1703), and also accompanied with ʿUthmān III's seal containing his
ṭughrā
and an extract from Qurʾān 7:43. Numerals decorated with gold dust, apparently inventory numbers, are found in the margin.
The text contains 160 recipes organised into ten chapters, each concerned with different gastronomic and culinary categories such as sour (الحوامض), plain (سواذج), fried and dry dishes (القلايا والنواشف), oven-cooked dishes (المطجنات), fish (السموك), pickles (المخللات), puddings (الأخبصة), sweets (الحلاوات), and dough-based sweet dishes (قطائف).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-6):
الحمد لله منشئ الأيام ومقدّر الأوقات ومنشر
الأنام ومسبّب الأقوات خالق الحيوان ومنبت
النبات الذي عمّ البرية بنعمه المتظاهرات وأنزل لهم
من السماء ماء فأخرج به من كل الثمرات وأحلّ لهم
الطيبات وأباح أنواع المأكل والمشارب غير المحرّمات
Ends (f. 97v, line 8- f. 98r, line 3):
... ثم يخلط
السكر والحب رمان وتجعل تلك الخرقة فيه حتى تخرج
خاصيتها فيه ثم تلقى عليه نصف ما عندك من ماء ورد
ومسك مذوب وتوعيه الكيزان الصادتة ثم تختم كل كوز
بماء بقي من ماء ورد ومسك وتحلي فيه قليلا فهو غاية
تم كتاب الطبيخ
والحمد لله دائمًا
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 56
Edinme Kaynağı
Purchased from Dikran Khan Kelekian (1868-1951), 11 May 1897
Köken
Unidentified oval stamp in black ink, overlaid with replacement paper (f. 2r, tail margin);
al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Ḥanīf (الحاج إبراهيم حنيف), Inspector of Endowments of Mecca and Medina (المفتش بأوقاف الحرمين المحرمين): his seal, without date, and inscription without date, stating that this manuscript was endowed (وقف) by Sulṭān ʿUthmān [Osman] III (عثمان خان ابن السلطان مصطفى خان, r. 1754-57) (f. 2r);
Sulṭān ʿUthmān [Osman] III (عثمان خان ابن السلطان مصطفى خان, r. 1754-57): his
ṭughrā
seal (f. 2r);
Sulṭān Bāyezīd II (r. 1481-1512): his pointed oval seal, without date (ff. 2r and 98v; see Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database no. 2);
Sulṭān Muḥammad Khān ibn Murād Khān (محمد خان بن مراد خان) known as Muḥammad II Fātiḥ (r. 1444-46; 1451-81): dedicatory inscription naming him (f. 2r).
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
Al-Kātib al-Baghdādī,
Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh
, edited by Dāwūd al-Jalabī (al-Mawṣil: Maṭbaʿat Umm al-Rabīʿīn, 1934); reprint, edited by Fakhrī al-Bārūdī (Bayrūt: Dār al-Kitāb al-Jadīd, 1964)
Translations:
al-Kātib al-Baghdādī,
Kitāb al-ṭabīkh
, translated by A. J. Arberry, 'A Baghdad Cookery-Book', in
Islamic Culture
, 13, 1 and 2 (1939), pp. 21–47, 189–214
al-Kātib al-Baghdādī,
Kitāb al-ṭabīkh
, translated by Charles Perry,
A Baghdad Cookery Book
(Blackawton: Prospect Books, 2005)
al-Kātib al-Baghdādī,
Kitāb al-ṭabīkh
, translated (with additions) by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Shirwānī [Şirvani],
Kitabü't-Tabih: Abbasi Bağdat'ından yemekler, tatlılar, çeşniler
(İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2009)
Studies:
Arberry, A. J. et al.,
Medieval Arab Cookery: Essays and Translations
(Totnes: Prospect Books, 2001)
Zubaida, Sami, 'Review: A Baghdad Cookery Book by Charles Perry', in
Gastronomica
, 7 (2007), pp. 131-32
