Author
Lâmiî Çelebi, 1472-1532, Jāmī, 1414-1492
Author Original
لامعى چلبى محمود بن عثمان جامي
Publication Date
1848
Subject
Sufism -- Biography -- Early works to 1800, Sufis -- Biography -- Early works to 1800, Muslim saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Turkish -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
tur, ota
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
382 leaves : paper ; 248 x 140 (175 x 73) mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1354988936
Record ID
990068221410106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1848
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: "We narrate to you the best stories of what We have revealed to you of this Qur’an, even though you were before it one of the heedless... The opening of the breaths of the breaths of the masters of human beings like this....", Explicit: "Iremah Yuzk Islarinden Lama'i Kim Bunlerk Karcheh Kim Forms of the ugliness of a human being [?] Eitdiller History of Translation... General History of Toquz Yuz Yekrami My hand [my hand] پs Rajab, my son is perfect", Colophon: "Scribal", triangular, reads "And may God’s blessings be upon our master and prophet Muhammad, the best of humanity, and upon his honorable family and great companions, and upon the imams of the people of Islam and those who follow them until the Day of Resurrection, and the completion of editing the noble and blessed copy was completed in the year two hundred and thousand and sixty-four, at the beginning of the good month of Safar in the year 1264.”, Collation: ii, V (10), IV (18), 36 V (378), II (382), ii ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (distinct for table of contents and main work); pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inner flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.293-294)., Layout: Written in 29 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; elegant, compact Turkish hand in a bold line; Partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on many ascenders, slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), curvilinear descenders, many closed counters, pointing mainly in conjoined dots or strokes., Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of table of contents (index) on p.4, followed by of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying the title and author in blue “A Catalog of Anas Lamai’s Whiffs”) flanked by swirling vegetable motifs in blended green, yellow and white on a gold ground ; Another fine illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening of text on p.40, consisting of a vaguely triangular shaped piece built up of vegetable forms in blended shades of dark green with gold cartouche (carrying the title and author in blue “Nafhat Anas Ma’i”) and sprays of flowers in pink, lavender, light blue, etc. ; written area surrounded by gold frame (much heaviest on incipit and facing page, pp.40-41) defined by black fillets with outermost blue rule, divisions within table of contents and elsewhere (mainly to set off verses) defined by narrow gold bands outlined by black fillets ; section headings, key words, notabilia, some individual letters of words (mainly names) and some abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining keywords) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots, etc. in red ; overlining in red; small circular diagram in margin of p.79 in blue, red and black ink, another diagram on p.616 in black and red., Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (mainly horizontal, fairly indistinct, curved) and no chain lines plainly visible, cloudy formation, inclusions, dark beige to light brown in color, fairly translucent and crisp though sturdy, highly sized and burnished to glossy., Binding: Boards covered in a dark maroon leather; Type II binding (with flap), likely two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in a coated, textured (embossed with swirling vegetable design) paper in red with gold-painted borders; upper and lower covers carry rectangular panel defined by gold borders (tooled and painted) with central painted ornament evoking a bowl or vase with flowers and leaves as well as cornerpieces in floral sprays, all in gold and green; edges of text block gilt; sewn in pink thread, two stations; worked chevron endbands in yellow and blue, good condition; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion at board edges, joint of fore edge flap, etc., Former shelfmark: "583 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.761, transcription completed ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min taḥrīr al-nuskhah al-sharīfah al-mubārakah...”) in the first part of Ṣafar 1264 [January 1848]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.761), composition completed in Rajab 927 [June-July 1521]., Notabilia (side-heads, most rubricated), glosses (many endings, some in decorative geometric shapes, see p.53, etc.) and occasional corrections., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 388
Sample Text
Elegant copy of Lâmiî Çelebi's Turkish translation of Jāmī's celebrated collection of Ṣūfī biographies with the addition of more than thirty Anatolian saints and poets. Table of contents at opening (pp.4-37). Contribution to the cataloguing from Hossein Mottaghi.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Jāmī, 1414-1492. Nafaḥāt al-uns min ḥaz̤arāt al-quds. Turkish.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Biography, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Abdul Hamid Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 433 ; II 207, Alpay, G. K. Lāmiʻī Chelebi and his works. JNES, 35 2 (1976). pp.73-93, Fihrist-i nuskhah'hā-yi khaṭṭī-i turkī-yi Kitābkhānah-i buzurg-i Ḥaz̤rat Āyat Allāh al-ʻUẓmá Najafī Marʻashī (Qum, Iran): vol.1 pp.196-197
Elde Ediliş
Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).
Konular (Diğer)
Headpieces (layout features)
