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Or 17007

Record Id:

032-003468198

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003468198

MDARK:

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SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 17007

Title:

Kitab-i Servisî ma'a şerhu'l-burde - كتاب سرويسى مع شرح البرده

Scope & Content:

This volume contains a commentary on the Qaṣīdat al-burdah (قصيدة البردة) of Abū ᶜabdullāh Muḥammad ibn Saᶜīd al-Būṣīrī (died 694 AH/1294-95 CE or 696 AH/1296-97 CE) by Seyit Ahmet İbn-i Mustafa known as Lali (died 971 AH/1563-64 CE).The text is a Sufi poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم.

Copious marginalia throughout the text in various hands. Folio 1r contains numerous statements of ownership in Ottoman Turkish. An inscription in black ink on folio 64r has largely been effaced.

A new text begins on f. 64v, with small gold medallions interspersed between sentences on ff. 64v-65r. A small ownership stamp appears on f. 66r.

Extensive water damage. The manuscript is undated and defective at both the beginning and end of the text.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003468198

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Hierarchy:

032-003468198

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 text, 141 ff.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

18th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials : Thick beige paper; ff. 86 and 91 appear to be marbled in blue

Dimensions : 225 mm x 138 mm

Foliation : European, 141 ff

Ruling : Red-ruled text boxes, 165 mm x 80 mm

Script : Cramped nesih

Ink : Black ink with catchwords, titles, underlines and text box outlines in red; gold medallions between phrases on ff. 64v-65r; rare formica-sprinkled ink in marginalia

Binding ; Original leather covers with considerable water damage, faded stamped medallion in the centre of each board

Custodial History:

F. 1r contains the inscription: ṣāḥib hādha al-kitāb ʾAbd al-Qādr ibn al-Ḥājj Yūsuf.

F. 66r contains a small ownership stamp from Ahmet Hayrat 45 (?).

Information About Copies:

Other copies can be found at Blochet, S. 615; Krafft, 181; Leipzig, p. 434; and Karatay II, pp. 54-55, 326.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe

Related Material:

Other copies of this text can be found in Or 12120 and Or 13200.

For more information on the author of the original Arabic text, see Brockelmann G. 1, p. 264, and S. 1, p. 467.

For more on the translator, see OM II, p. 51.

Related Archive Descriptions:

Or 12120
Or 13200