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Title:

Netaicü’l-fünun ve mehasinü’l-mütun – نتائج الفنون ومحاسن المتون

Scope & Content:

This volume contains a concise encyclopaedia reviewing the twelve principal branches of learning by the poet and religious scholar Yahya ibn-i Pir Ali (died 1007 AH/1599 CE), whose mahlas was Nev‘i.

Nev‘i was born in 940 AH/1533-34 CE in Malkara. His father was a Halveti shaykh, and it was from him that Nev‘i first received instruction in the Sufi path. He went to Istanbul in 957 AH/1550 CE and completed his medrese education. He later served as a müderris himself, initially in Gallipoli and later in Istanbul. He wrote a number of works in verse and prose, with many of them reflecting his deep interest in Sufism. He died on 30 Zilkade 1007 AH/24 June 1599 CE.

Nev‘i presented the Netaicü’l-fünun to his patron Sultan Murad III (ruled 982-1003 AH/1574-1595 CE), whose sons he tutored between 998-1003 AH/1590-1595 CE. The contents of the work are as follows:

Introduction 3v-14r
İlmu’t-tarih (History), 14r-47r
İlm-i hikmet (Philosophy), 47r-52v
İlm-i hay’at (Astronomy), 52v-62r
İlm-i kalam (Theology), 62r-69v
İlm-i usuli’l-fikih (Sources of jurisprudence), 69v-75v
İlm-i hilaf beyne’l imameyn (Ethics of scholarly disagreement), 75v-81r
İlm-i tefsir (Qur’anic exegesis), 81r-87r
İlm-i tasavvuf (Sufism), 87r-90r
İlm-i tabir-i hawab (Dream interpretation), 90r-96r
İlm-i rukye ve efsun ve tip (Spells, amulets, and medicine) 96r-103v
İlm-i falahet (Agriculture), 103v-106v
İlm-i nucum (Astrology), 106v-113r
İlm-i fal ve zecr (Omens and divination), 113r-123v
İlmu’s-serf (Morphology)123v-124r
İlmu’ş-şiir (Poetry), 124r-127r
İlm-i na’t (Eulogy) 127r-129r
İlmu’t-tib (Medicine), 129r-133r

The section on astronomy includes diagrams on f 54v, 58r, 58v, 59r, and 60v.

Begins:

Hamd-i bi-hadd Ahad-i bi-ibtidayạ kị Elif-i ism-i Zat her ibtidaya evvel ve her intihaya müntahadir

This volume contains many notes in margins throughout. There are verses in Arabic on f 1r, and a beyit in Persian and a rübai in Ottoman Turkish, attributed to Şeyhi, on 133v. There are plain gold lines over the text opening, forming what resembles the outer contours of a complete small illuminated heading.

The colophon is on f 133r and states that the work was copied by Hasan in Ramazan 1016 AH/1607-8 CE.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 text, 133 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Persian
Turkish, Ottoman

Scripts:

Arabic (nastaliq Variant)

Start Date:

1607

End Date:

1608

Date Range:

1016

Calendar:

Hijri qamari

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Place of Origin:

Turkey

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Good beige paper, probably oriental

Foliation: European, 133 ff

Dimensions: 177 x 90 mm; 125 x 48 mm

Pricking and Ruling: 15 lines; Red headings and overlinings; Gold and black text frames

Script: Clear nestalik

Binding: Modern black cloth boards; tooled leather spine with raised bands, blind ornamentation, and title and small star bands in gold

Custodial History:

This volume was formerly MS. 40 in the collection of Mr. C.S. Mundy. There is a worn seal impression on f 1r, inscriptions by owners, including the author Veysi (died 1037/1627), on ff 1r-3r.

Information About Copies:

Other copies can be found at İstanbul Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi, TY 3805, 4329, 4330, 4332, 4333, 4334, 5001/2; TSMK Revan Köşkü, 1077, 2046/5; Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Serez 3825/I, Tırnovalı 1865/I; Hacı Selim Ağa Kütüphanesi, Kemankeş Emîr Hoca 535; Bibliothèque Nationale, AF 44, Suppl. 197. See also M. Götz, VOHD XIII/5, 156-8; idem, VOHD XIII/4, 4-5; and B. Flemming, VOHD XIII/1, 290.

Publications:

Nev’î Efendi, İlimlerin Özü “Netâyic el-Fünûn,” edited by Ömer Tolgay (Istanbul: Insan Yay., 1995).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Yahya ibn-i Pir Ali Nev‘i, d. 1007/1599

Subjects:

Ottoman history of science

Places:

Ottoman Empire, Africa/Asia/Europe

Related Material:

Other copies of this work can be found at Or 8446, Or 1136, Or 7335, Add MS 7898, and Add MS 7899. On some of these, see the Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 114-5.

On Nev‘i, see Nejat Sefercioğlu, ‘Nev‘î,’ TDVİA (islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/nevi--divan-sairi); F. Babinger, ‘Newʿī,’ EI2 (doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_5893). On his Netaicü’l-fünun see Nadir İlhan, ‘Nev’ī Efendi: Netāyīcü’l-fünūn ve Mehāsīnü’l-mütūn: Giriş-Metin-Dizinler’ (MA thesis, Fırat University, 1992) and Didar Akbulut. “The Classification of the Sciences in Nev‘i Efendi’s Netaicü’l-fünun: An Attempt at Contextualization' (MA Thesis, Boğaziçi University, 2014).

Related Archive Descriptions:

Add MS 7898
Add MS 7899
Or 1136
Or 7335
Or 8446