Author
Taner, Melis
Publication Date
2021
Subject
Baghdad, Compilation, Early modern, Layout, Ottoman, Painting, Magazine, Early modern, Ottoman, Layout, Picture, Baghdad
Type
Periodical
Language
Turkish
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
0579-4080
Record ID
e67e4bb7-baa6-40bc-807c-bd0b82ad448c
Library Location
Architecture
Date
2021
Sample Text
This article was written by a person named Ahmed bin Musa between 1640 and 1642.
found in a magazine (Berlin State Library MS. Quart, 1988)
IV. Examines a miniature from Murad's siege of Baghdad. This is the seventeenth century
The magazine it belongs to has been prepared very carefully. Prose works are the main part of the text.
In the section, verse works, dates and lists are in the annotation section. of the magazine
This organization is also stated in the index at the beginning of the work, and in terms of layout,
Since the text was written by a single hand, the headings and chapter headings are sometimes decorative.
elements and, in particular, the inclusion of a single-page image.
It is clear that the work was prepared very carefully. Found in the magazine
The works belong to many different subjects: the magazine starts with works on religious subjects and continues with works on religious subjects.
Then various historical works, stories, poet biographies, literary works, medicine
works, calendars and finally works about cifr. Many of the works
They were published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and are all in Turkish. original
Turkish translations and adaptations of a few works in Arabic or Persian are preferred.
has been made. After briefly mentioning the content of the work, this article will focus specifically on Baghdad.
It focuses on the text and picture about the siege. Text during the siege
It is a letter sent to the capital by an existing inner son and this letter
At the end, Ahmed bin Musa, who prepared the magazine, looked at the picture on the other side of the page.
recommends looking into it. When the magazine is examined as a whole, it is in line with its contemporaries.
Although the set shows similarities, it differs from the others with this meticulous painting. This paper discusses a compilation organized and compiled by Ahmed bin Musa between 1640 and 1642, focusing on a painting of the conquest of Baghdad (1638). The elegant and carefully prepared compilation uses both the text frame and the margin spaces. Prose texts are in the main text block, and verse texts, chronograms, and lists fill the margins, written in diagonals. Through its careful organization, decorative aspects, section headings, diagrams included in the final section, and the full-page painting, this compilation differentiates from its contemporaries in its fineness and elegance, which the compiler himself notes. After a brief introduction to the compilation and its content, this paper focuses on the letter from a court page who participated in Baghdad's conquest and the accompanying painting. The letter accompanies a carefully executed painting of the conquest of Baghdad, which distinguishes this compilation from most of its contemporaries.
DOI
İstanbul Üniversitesi, 10.26650/sty.2021.889757
