Author
Mustafa bin Ali, Muvakkit, -1571.
Publication Date
[1816 or 1817]
Subject
Manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Turkish /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Turkish / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Time measurements, Time measurements /
Early works to 1800., Horology, Horology /
Early works to 1800., Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) /
Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Astronomy /
Turkey, Astronomy / Turkey /
Early works to 1800.
Type
kitap
Language
ota,tur
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
56
Physical Dimensions
56 leaves : paper ; 177 x 127 (125 x 70) mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006818235
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of two treatises by Muvakkit Mustafa b. Ali (d.1571), timekeeper in the mosque of Sultan Selim II (r.1566-1574), the first on the use of the almucantar or bridged quadrant (rubʻ al-muqanṭarāt) in 12 bābs and the second on timekeeping (ʻilm al-mīqāt) and the use of the sine quadrant (rubʻ mujayyab) in 22 bābs. Contents listing for both works on added leaves at opening (pp.2-4). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 829
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.108, both works apparently copied by Hacı Hafız Ömer (al-Ḥājj Ḥāfiẓ ʻUmar) with transcription completed 1232 [1816 or 1817].
Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (mainly in shades of orange, red, and blue) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewn in dark blue thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with some staining, abrasion, moisture damage, spine slant (slightly cocked), warping, etc.
Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (vertical), and lion watermark (tail and face visible in p.14, 15, 86, etc. and legs and ground visible in p.10, 20, 110, etc.) ; staining and tide lines.
Decoration: Some keywords and section headings rubricated, others overlined in red ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.
Script: Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; partially and somewhat irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, ṭāʼ, etc. as well as shaqq of kāf, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in curved strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: I (2), 5 V(52), II (56) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت ۱۲۳۲ حرره الحاج حافظ عمر غفر الله ذنوبه تم"
Explicit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "سمت قبليه مطابق اولدى قبله سى قوس ارتفاعك طرفنه واقع اولدى تمت بعون الملك الوهاب تم" ; [Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat] "بلدك كى اول قيونك در يكلكى طقوز زراعدر"
Incipit: [Kifayetü'l-vakit li-marifeti'd-dair ve fazle ve's-semt] "الحمد لله الذى جعل على البحر الاحضر [الاخضر] الفلك قناطير المقطنرات ... بو احقر عباد الله مصطفى بن على الموقت بالجامع الحاقانى السليمى ... وبو رسالۀ كفاية الوقت المعرفة [لمعرفة] الدائر وفضله والسمت برله تسميه ايله دم ..." ; [Teshilü'l-mikat fî ilmi'l-evkat] "الحمد لله عالم الغيب فلا يغرب عن عمله مثقال ذرة فى الارض ولا فى السماء ... اما بعد بو عبد ضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف مصطفى بن على الموقت بجامع الحاقانى السليمى بواه الله ديمكله متعارف اولان آلتده كه آلات رصديه ايجنده افاقى اولوب ... وبو رسالۀ تسهيل الميقات وتعيين الاوقات ديو تسميه ايلدم ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work (p.6) and opening matter of second work (p.43).
Ms. codex.
Inscription on upper board lining "20. Two works by Mustafa b. ʻAlī (author's own copy) on quadrant etc." ; listing of months and signs of the zodiac (abrāj) on recto of opening leaf with contents listing (p.1) ; inventory mark "K15" on incipit page (p.5) ; notabilia (sideheads), often rubricated.
