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Or 16001

Record Id:
032-003452803
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003452803
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100079518043.0x000001
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100171605807.0x000001
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16001
Title:

[Armeno-Turkish Treatise on Food]

Scope & Content:

An Armeno-Turkish treatise about foods in relation to health, written in notrgir hand. The manuscript lacks a title or title page, and begins with the Bismillah.

Each section (fasl) of the text is begin with an ornate capital in red, yellow and blue ink and gold leaf, and paragraphs are started with a majuscule letter in red ink. The sections are as follows:

ff. 2r-5v : Fasli evvel, ekmek yemeği müteallik kavaidin beyandindedir.

ff. 5v-7r : İkinci fasl, su içmeği müteallik olanı beyanidir.

ff. 7v-10r : Üçüncü fasl, asnafi hububun tabietlerini ve vicüdi insane mütaellik faideleri beyanindedir.

ff. 10v-12v : Dördüncü fasl, halk icinde meşhur olan lehumin tabietleri ve vicüdi insane müteallik olan faydeleri beyanindedir.

ff. 12v-13r : Beşinci fasl, dağlarda ve sahralerde sayd olunan vahşi hayvanat(ı)n etleri ve tabietleri beyanindedir.

ff. 13r-15r : Altıncı fasl, hevade uçan kuşların lehumini beyanindedir.

ff. 15r-17v : Yedinci fasl, deryade ve göllerde sayd olunan balıklar(ı)n tabietlerin beyanindedir.

ff. 17v-19r : Sekizinci fasl, sümden has(ı)l olan eşyan(ı)n tabietleri ve vicüdi insane müteallik faydeleri beyanindedir.

ff. 19r-26r : Dokuzuncu fasl, taze yemişlerin tabieatleri ve vicüdi insande müteallik faydeleri beyanindedir.

ff. 26v-31r : Onuncu fasl, kuru yemişlerin tabietleri ve vicüdi insane müteallik faydeleri beyanindedir.

ff. 31v-33v : On ikinci fasl, hoş kokuli taze çiçeklerin beyanindedir.

ff. 33v-39v : On üçüncü fasl, hub kokuli buhurlerin dahi issi otlar(ı)n hep tabietlerin ve vicüdi insane müteallik faydeleri beyanindedir.

ff. 39v-48v : On dördüncü fasl, cevahirin tabietlerin ve hasselerin ve vicüdi insane müteallik faydelerin beyanindedir.

ff. 49r-51v : On beşinci fasl, libase müteallik olan eşyan(ı)n tabietleri ve vicüdi insane müteallik faydeleri beyanindedir.

ff. 51v-53r : On altıncı fasl, saç ve sakkal kıllarını tez bitirüb ve uzun iden mürekkeb devaler beyanindedir.

ff. 53v-58r : On yedinci fasl, ademi semirdib kuvvetin ziade ve kuvveti cimaiyyesin artır(ı)b hini mücemeatde ere ve avrete ziade lezzet viren devalerin beyanindedir.

ff.58v-60r : Principal colophon, title 'Hat metül kitab' in red ink. The transcribed text is as follows:

Hat metül kitab bu Abdi Fakir Zeynülayedin ben Halil idep ki but kıteabi müstetabe nazar olan bilüp ve ageah olsun ki bu kitabde derc itdiyim mesaili tıbbiyeyi ebbül hükema olan hazreti İdris aleyhis selamın (?) zemanında sene tesa ve selasin ve elif tarihine gelince hükema teelif itdüyi kütbi meşhurde mevcud olan akvali makmulei istenka (?) idüp etbba ihteyar eyledüyi mesafi istehraç idüp bu kıtabi telif eyledim. Lakin eşyayi mühtelifeyi cümle cem itmeyi ihtemam eyledim. Zira cümle alel tefsil tahrir eyldim ahznie imkean olmayup hıfzi güç olur idi. Zira her kelamın muhtasari matlub ve hıfzi asan olazan dır. Hazrete Cabir rivayet ider hayrennas minyefiünnas.

Hadisi şerifinin mazmunince ammei nas bu ilme şerifde mahrom kalmayup mündefi olalar ve nefi hasıl oldukça bu hagiri fatehi ile yad (?) edeler ilmi tıbbie şerif ilim bir ki edyani mühtelifeden bir kimesne (?) yoktur ki buni inkür ide. İmdi her kişiye layık dır ki ilmi tıbban bir mikdar öyrenüp nişvedar ve fenni tabahiden hüsedar ola. Müğtedil feni tabayii belmeyüb makülat ve meşrubat ve melbusat. Ve meşmumat umumrunde her biri bir ustadi fabkdan (?) ve tebbe hazıkdan süal itmeyi mühtaç ola. Bulmaduği vakıtde bu kıtabe nazar itüb mücübiyle amelide.

İlahi reca iderem ki bu kitabi müstetab(ı)n süturinde vaki olan kusurinde (?) kalemi kerem ile setr idüp islah iden civanın

Mekamini hod iderem eyleyareb reca iderem ki bu kitabe malek olup metali itmeyi taleb olan bimarun hecranine revayet didarun ile derman eyle ve bu kitab telefine tarihi Cemazül ahırın vasatende mübaşeret olunup ol zeman bu fakir mahmiye İstanbolda Ebu el feth sultan muhammed han aliyehül rahmetehü vel ğaffuran temarhanesinde reis etbba idinm 17 günde tesvid idüp temam iyledim.

The text ends with the invocation 'Elhamdülillah teala'.

f.60v : Blank

ff.61r-65v : A separate text entitled "Bazı havaslar beyanindedir."

The manuscript contains one unvan on f. 2r in blue, yellow, green and red ink, with gold leaf. The same page includes a floral (?) motif along the right-hand side of the page in the same inks.

The manuscript was copied by Abdi Fakir Zeynülayedin ben Halil in Cemazülahir vasatende 1039 AH (1630). The copyist did this over 17 days while the Head of Doctors at the Ebü'l-feth Sültan Muhammed Han Hospital in İstanbul.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Armenian Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Hierarchy:
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Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item, 65 ff
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Scripts:
Armenian
Start Date:
1630
End Date:
1630
Date Range:
1630
Calendar:
Gregorian
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material : Paper

Foliation : Western, 65 ff, plus blank flyleaves at each end

Dimensions : 155 mm x 105 cm

Ruling : Text boxes ruled in gold-leaf, 120 mm x 85 mm; folio 60v blank; text in single columns of 18 lines

Script : Clear notrgir within gilded borders, with decorated title page

Ink : Main text in black in, with titles and initial letters of each paragraph in red; capitals in red, black, blue, green and yellow ink, and gold leaf

Binding: Dark brown goatskin over paper boards.

Custodial History:
Tiw (No.) 2 in the Donabedian (?) collection.
Source of Acquisition:
Purchased from the A. Donabedian collection in 2004.
Finding Aids:
For more information, see Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume Two. London: The British Library. pp 1026-1028.
Publications:

Cankara, Murat. 2018. 'Armeno-Turkish Writing and the Question of Hybridity' in Kathryn Babayan and Michael Pifer (eds.) An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp 173-191.

Nersessian, Vrej. 2012. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1913 and of collections of other libraries in the United Kingdom, Volume Two. London: The British Library. pp 1026-1028.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
Istanbul, Turkey