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Or 9023
- Record Id:
- 032-003464760
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464760
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088050378.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100127535228.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Or 9023
- Title:
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Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون
Kâtip Çelebi كاتب چلبي
- Scope & Content:
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Bibliographical encyclopaedia by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حاجي خليفة). The work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the science (ff. 1v-29v), followed by the main body of the encyclopaedia in which ca 14,500 books are listed alphabetically by title and given some commentary.
This copy is dated Saturday 11 Shawwāl 1126/9 October 1714 (see colophon, f. 687r, lines 22-23, transcribed below).
Contents:
- Part One (الجزء الأول, ff. 1v-395v);
- Part Two (الجزء الثاني, ff. 396r-687r).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-3):
إن أزهر نطق يلوح أنوار ألطافه من مطالع الكتب والصحائف وأبهر
كلام يفوح أزهر أعطافه على صحفات العلوم والمعارف حمد الله الذي جعل زلال الكمال
Ends (f. 687r, lines 11-16):
... ونستعيذه جل اسمه من دعاء لا يسمع وعلم لا ينتفع
وعمل لا يرفع فهو الجواد الذي لا يخيب من أمله ولا ينتصر
من خذله ولا يرد دعوة القاصدين ولا يصلح عمل المفسدين
وهو حسبنا ونعم الوكيل وصلوته على نبيه محمد خاتم النبيين
وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين وسلم تسليمًا إلى يوم الدين والحمد لله
رب العالمين
Colophon (f. 687r, lines 17-24):
تمت النسخة المسماة بأسامي الكتب من (؟) يد أفقر الورى الكثير الذنب
سودية (؟) للمخدوم العالي قدر (؟) المستغنى عن المدح والألقاب
بل الألقاب تفتخر بذلك الجناب وهو ابن أعلم العلماء المتجرين (؟)
أفضل الفضلاء المتورعين أمين الفتاوي للمشايخ الآلام (؟)
الشهير بحصن منصوري أطال الله عمرهما ونور قلوبهما
ختمته في السبع السابع من الربع الثاني من السدس الرابع
من النصف الثاني في السنة العشرين ومائة وألف من الهجرة
من له العز والشرف
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464760
- Is part of:
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-003464760
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff.iii+687+ii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100088050378.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1714
- End Date:
- 1714
- Date Range:
- 11 Shawwāl 1126
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Western laid paper
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm leaf
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah visible on only some folios; number of lines per page and line spacing variable
Script: Naskh; more than one hand (major changes on ff. 9r, 176r, 196v, 619r, 639r, 647v and 658r)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: None
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Some tidemarks towards head, ink stain on edge towards head (ff. 240-273)
Marginalia: Few (but see f. 144v)
Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 1r and 687v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Isaac Benjamin Shlomo Ezekiel Yahuda (bookdealer at Cairo and brother of Abraham Shalom Yahuda, d. 1951), 8 October 1921
- Publications:
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Editions:
- Kâtip Çelebi, Kashf al-ẓunūn ʻan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn: Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum a Mustafa ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi dicto et nomine Haji Khalfa celebrato compositum, 7 vols., edited by Gustav Flügel (Leipzig and London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1835-58)
- Kâtip Çelebi, Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn, edited by Şerefettin Yaltkaya and Rifat Bilge Kilisli, 2 vols (Istanbul: Maarıf Matbaası, 1941-43)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)