Author
Krusiński, Tadeusz Jan, 1675-1756.
Publication Date
1141
Subject
Manuscripts--Turkey--18th century.Chron.:1729Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.Iran--History--16th-18th centuries.Afghanistan--History.
Type
Book
Language
lat,ota,tur
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
21 cm (4to)
Library
The Indiana University Library
Library Asset ID
DR403 .M82415
Record ID
14023869
Library Location
Blmgtn - Lilly Library (by appointment only)view this location on the map, in a new tab — Lilly Library - Stacks
Date
1141
Notes
The third of 17 works printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika, "müteferrika" (house steward) to Sultan Ahmed III, and first printer of moveable Arabic type under Islamic auspices. Müteferrika was born in Kolozsvár, Transylvania sometime between 1672 and 1675, and converted to Islām after moving to Constantinople as a young man. See Nai̇ma cited below.Imprint taken from colophon.Translated from the Latin either by the author or by Ibrahim Müteferrika.Printed by Ibrahim Müteferrika.Caption title.Bound in tan boards with brown morocco spine.
Sample Text
A history of Persia during the Ṣafavi era by the Jesuit Tadeusz Jan Krusiński. Krusiński's work is especially important for the description and analysis of the Afghan invasions from 1722 to 1727, which the author witnessed. Krusiński served as Jesuit procurator and secretary-interpreter to the bishop of Ịsfahān. According to W.J. Watson, the editor and printer, İbrahim Müteferrika, apparently translated and altered Krusiński's Latin manuscript; see "İbrahim Müteferrika and Turkish incunabula," Journal of the American Oriental Society 88, no. 3 (July-Sept. 1968): 437.
Kaynaklar
Toderini, G. Letteratura turchesca, 36-43Lockhart, L. Fall of the Ṣafavi dynasty and the Afghan occupation of Persia, 522Nai̇ma. Tārih-i Na'īmā, II, p. 711