Author
Nev'î, 1533-1599 My type, 1533-1599
Author Original
نوعي
Subject
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Turkish. Islamic learning and scholarship > Classification. Manuscripts, Turkish > Connecticut > New Haven.
Type
Document
Language
ara,fas,ota
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
1 item (iv + 82 leaves) : paper ; 220 mm x 165 mm
Library
Yale University
Record ID
99164940283408651
Library Location
Nev'î, Netāyicü'l-fünūn ve meḥāsinü'l-mütūn. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Notes
Title from preface (f. 4a). Romanization supplied by cataloger. Contemporary manuscript foliation begins on the recto of the second leaf bearing the main text and numbers the page openings. Folio numbers used in this record count opening of main text as f. 1b and recto of second leaf of main text as f. 2a. Layout: Single columns of 21 lines. Script: Naskh. Binding: Black leather over thin pasteboard; blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants, foliate paper doublures. Decoration: Astronomical diagrams (ff. 34a, 36a-b, 39b); rubrication. Later manuscript annotations throughout, including commentary on text, incomplete table of contents (Fihrist) (recto first flyleaf) and healing amulet below the colophon (f.82a), as well as mathematical calculations and a poem (f. 82b). Accompanied by notes in pencil (1 leaf). In Ottoman Turkish. Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Sample Text
Manuscript on paper of Netāyicü'l-fünūn ve meḥāsinü'l-mütūn by Nevʻī Efendi. A work of taxonomy, Netāyicü'l-fünūn classifies and describes sciences or branches of knowledge including history, philosophy, astronomical theory, theology, jurisprudence, juridical disagreement, Quranic exegesis, Sufism, dream interpretation, enchantment and incantations, medicine, agriculture, astronomy, and divination and ornithomancy. Includes numerous minhu records (that is, marginal glosses attributed to the text's author) in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. Folio 38, with text in Arabic (recto) and Ottoman Turkish (verso), added later.
Kataloğa Eklendi
December 20, 2022
Köken
Unidentified library stamp from El Moursieh, Alexandria, possibly of a lycée français (ff. ia, 46b, 55b). Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Referanslar
Nev'î, Netāyicü'l-fünūn ve meḥāsinü'l-mütūn. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Özel Koleksiyon Konusu
Turkish manuscripts Hartford Theological Seminary. Case Memorial Library > Ownership
