Author
Yesari Mehmet Esat Efendi, -1798, يسارى محمد اسعد افندى
Author Original
يسارى محمد اسعد افندى
Publication Date
1790
Subject
Islamic calligraphy -- Turkey -- Specimens, Calligraphy, Turkish -- Specimens, Writing, Arabic -- Specimens, Manuscripts, Turkish -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
tur, ota
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
8 leaves : paper ; 175 x 468 (98 x 395) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194735794
Record ID
990068222640106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1790-1791
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "جناب حضرت سلطان سليم خان جهانبانك ...", Explicit: "قيروب بيك ايكيوز بش سالى دستى پيك اديم يرده", Collation: Eight heavy leaves or 'panels' hinged together., Layout: Written in a single line per page (opens vertically with lines running parallel to the spine)., Script: Exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy ; text throughout in an elegant, large nastaʻlīq (celi talik) in a heavy line ; pin-pricks surround each letter, presumably for transfer to the commemorative stone by pouncing., Decoration: Written area surrounded by frame consisting of inner orange band and heavy gold outer band, outlined in black fillets., Support: Well-burnished laid paper (with roughly 8 vertical laid lines per cm.) mounted on heavy paper with pieced marbled paper (kumlu or kılçıklı ebru in blue and cream) framing the written area., Binding: Pasteboards faced in cream silk with dark red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (silk faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards and recto of opening and final panel lined in marbled paper (kumlu or kılçıklı ebru in pink, light blue, and dark blue) ; upper and lower covers carry gold-tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; panels hinged together with dark red leather ; in somewhat poor condition with lifting of silk and leather, delamination of boards, much abrasion, staining, panels detaching from spine, etc., Former shelfmark: "538 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on upper cover., Origin: Date at close, 1205 [1790 or 91] during the reign of Sultan Selim III (r.1789-1807) for whom the marker was erected. Most likely executed by the master calligrapher Mehmet Esat Yesari (d.1798) as proposed by Muhittin Serin (see note on catalog card dated "20.4.1993") and Mohamed Zakariya and confirmed by Uğur Derman., Inscription in pencil on upper cover "538 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" ; clean copy., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 402
Sample Text
Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) with design for a monumental inscription to appear in stone on a commemorative range marker (menzil taşı) erected by Bilâl Ağa (d.1807?), likely executed by Yesari Mehmed Esad Efendi (d.1798), the great Ottoman master of nastaʻlīq (talik).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Yesari Mehmet Esat Efendi, -1798, calligrapher.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar
Brocade of the pen : the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991), no.12, p.84, Zakariya, Mohamed. "Islamic calligraphy: A technical overview." In Brocade of the pen: the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991): 1-17, Derman, M. Uğur. Letters in gold : Ottoman calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı collection, Istanbul. (New York : Metropolitian Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1998), 100-1., Zakariya, Mohamed. "The Two Yesaris : Father and Son Calligraphers." Seasons (Spring 2007): 3-13, Acar, M. Şinasi. Osmanlı'da sportif atıcılık : nişan taşları (Istanbul: YEM Yayın, 2013), 195
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
