Author
Abdullah bin Mehmet Salih, Eyübî, -1836
Publication Date
[1867]
Subject
Medina (Saudi Arabia)—History[Browse]Medina (Saudi Arabia)—Buildings, structures, etc[Browse]Islamic shrines—Saudi Arabia—Medina[Browse]Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type
kitap
Language
Ottoman
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
121
Physical Dimensions
121 leaves : paper ; 225 x 152 (158 x 78) mm. bound to 225 x 158 mm.
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
182555475
Record ID
9953255783506421
Date
[1867]
Notes
Ms. codex.Title from fol. 4b. Other title from Sicill-i ʻOs̲mānī (v. 3, 396).Copied by Ākhūnjān bin Abd al-Hādī al-Marghīnānī, and completed in the middle of Ṣafar 1284 (1867) -- colophon (fol. 120b).17 lines per page. Written in a small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text is written inside a double line frame in red ink. Fol. 2b-3a have gold leaf frames outlined in black and red ink. Fol. 2b has a simple illuminated head piece in floral pattern drawn in gold ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks. Added note in pencil on fol. 2a: Tarih-i Miftah il-saadet il-medeniye.Incipit: حمد لا يزال شكر بى زوال اول خالق جهان ... وبعد بو عبد غواص بحر ذنوب بو بندهء دوچار قناطير العيوب عبد اللهExplicit: وماه مزبورك يكرمنجى كونى جمعه بو رساله نك تسويدى دخى يد فقيرانه دن اكماله ... تحرير اولندى تم - Brown leather, embossed in straight narrow lines, over pasteboard with envelope flap. Gold tooled border design on covers made with a wide gold guilloche, two gold fillets and three small rosetta stamps in each corner forming corner pieces. Same design on the envelope flap. Endleaves in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather. Spine damaged. - A work on Medina, based on ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Samhūdī's history Wafāʼ al-wafā (see text, fol. 4b). Title in Ṭāhir given as : Miftah ül-saadet il-Medine (see ref. below).
Dil Notu
In Ottoman Turkish.
Kaynak
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Referanslar
Ṭāhir, ʻOs̲mānlĭ Müʼellifleri, I, 380 (20).
Edinme Kaynağı
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.