Author
Mehmet bin Tacettin, -1587, Mohammad bin Tajuddin, Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi, -1831, Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi,
Author Original
محمد بن تاج الدين كبجى زاده محمد وصفى افندى،
Publication Date
1772
Publication Place
[Istanbul?] -
Subject
Islamic calligraphy -- Turkey -- Technique -- Early works to 1800, Calligraphy, Turkish -- Technique -- Early works to 1800, Writing, Arabic -- Technique -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Turkish -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
tur, ota
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
28 leaves : paper ; 222 x 160 (129 x 78) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1354989181
Record ID
990068222630106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1772
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "Praise be to me, praise and praise is not counted as the first creator of the tablet and the pen, such as kaf and nun, a sentence of my beings and my potentials and war... a pen is traced, and we are at first good. Yazanler, your pen is high, and your boat is high, and your kajdak is zibasin, your corm is cruciferous...", Explicit: "And the opposite of my pen and my success is first of all. Good handwriting. Yazanler, your pen is high, and your boat is high, and your kajdak is zibasin. Bonler Kibi", Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads "It was written by the weakest book, Muhammad al-Wasfi, known as the memorizer of the Qur’an, one of the students of Abu Bakr Rashid Effendi, may God forgive them", Collation: i, 2 V(20), IV (28), i ; two quinions followed by a quaternion; Layout: Written in 9 lines per page; (nesih) and thluth (sülüs); exquisite specimen of Ottoman calligraphy executed by Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi (d. 1831)., Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening consisting of a composition of vegetable forms (resembling plumes) in white with shades of lavender, blue, pink, etc. accents surmounted by floral forms in shades of with green leaves, all on a gold ground set in a well defined by red and yellow interlace; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by a heavy gold frame with inner and outer gold bands defined by black fillets and outermost pink fillet; written area elsewhere surrounded by a narrower gold frame defined by black fillets with outermost blue fillet; Circles (or hāʼ evoking familiar rhomboid dots) and lines indicating size, proportion and angle for the large sample letters entered in the margins are also rubricated., Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm (vertical), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm apart (horizontal), and watermarks of griffin [?], "FIN DE LA SONE EN DAUPHINE" and "1772" ; and burnished, thin and crisp though sturdy, buff (dull yellow) in color., Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark royal blue leather; Type III binding (without flap); pastedowns and flyleaves in sky blue surface-dyed, textured and coated paper (embossed with scrolling vegetable designs); gold fillets; sewn in pale yellow thread, two stations; overall in fairly good condition with minor repairs in blue Japanese paper., former shelfmark: “469 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" in pencil on verso of front flyleaf., Origin: As appears in colophon, copy executed by Mehmet Vasfi (i.e. Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi, d. 1831) student of Ebubekir Raşit Efendi (d. 1782). Date of transcription not specified, though date in watermark suggests ca. 1772 ; decoration, hand, etc. are consistent with late 18th century dating., Clean copy., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl 401
Sample Text
Exquisite copy of a treatise on calligraphy (addressing chiefly nesih and sülüs) attributed to Tacbeyzade [Taçbeyzade, Tacizade, Taczade] Mehmet bin Tacettin [Mehmed b.Taceddin] (d.1587) executed by the calligrapher Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi (d. 1831). The text opens with preparing the pen and the origins of the scripts and their names (returning to Ibn al-Bawwāb and Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī with some sayings attributed to them), followed by the müfredat (single and double letters) and the mürekkebat (words and phrases of more than two letters). Sample letters marked with the proper proportions and angles are provided in the margins.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Kebecizade Mehmet Vasfi Efendi, -1831, calligrapher, scribe.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar
Taczâde, Mehmed bin Taceddin. Risale-yi hüsn-i hat : manuscript, 1603 or 4. MS Arab 9, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Soucek, Priscilla. "Handlist" for The Islamic Book: Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts Exhibition, Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., November 1978, typescript., Islamic art from Michigan collections. Carol G. Fisher and Alan Fisher, Eds. (East Lansing, MI, 1982), no.60, p.103., Rado, Şevket. Türk hattatları : XV. yüzyıldan günümüze kadar gelmiş ünlü hattatların hayatları ve yazılarından örnekler. (Istanbul : Yayın Matbaacılık Ticaret Limited Şti., [1984?]), p.78 and p.202., Tüfekçioğlu, Abdülhamit. "Mehmed b. Tâceddin ve Hüsn-i Hat Risalesi hakkında," Kubbealtı Akademi Mecmuası, XXVI, 1 (Ocak 1997): 45-48., Schick, Irvin Cemil. "Tâczâde Risâlesi'ne göre sülüs hattına dair bazı istılâhat." In M. Uğur Derman armağanı : altmışbeşinci yaşı münasebetiyle sunulmuş tebliğler. Irvin Cemil Schick, Ed. (İstanbul : Sabancı Universitesi, 2000): 456-482., Bayat, Ali Haydar. Açıklamalı hüsn-i hat bibliyografyası : yazmalar, kitaplar, makaleler, kitaplarda hatla ilgili bölümler, dış ülkelerdeki yayınlar. İstanbul : İslam Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi, 2002., Blair, Sheila. Islamic calligraphy. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), pp.477-479, Fig. 11.1, Gruber, Christiane and Ashley Dimmig. Pearls of Wisdom : The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan : Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2014), no.2, p.28 f.
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
Konular (Diğer)
Headpieces (layout features)
