Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tārīkh-i Salānīkī.
تاريخ سلانيکى

Authors

• Selânikî Mustafa Efendi, -1600?
  سلانيكى، مصطفى افندى،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, active 1722, scribe
  محمد بن عبد الله،
• Clark, Clarence H. 1833-1906, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Samuel T. Freeman & Co, auctioneer
• Stan. V. Henkels (Firm), auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 93
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2450063
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091900459
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2450063

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1134 A.H. (1722)

Place

Turkey

Summary

Copy of a history of the years 971 to 1008 A.H. (1563-1599 C.E.) in Turkey, covering the end of the reign of Süleyman I, the entire reigns of Selim II and Murad III, and the first five years of Mehmed III.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from bottom edge.
   

Extent

400 leaves : 277 x 150 (195 x 76) mm bound to 277 x 161 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with painted floral decorations in gold and colors on a shimmering brown field; pastedowns and flap lining of floral woven green silk with woven gold flowers.

Layout

25 long lines; border-ruled. Occasional passages of poetry in two or three columns divided by gold rules.

Decoration

Illuminated six-pointed star inside gold medallion (f. 1r); illuminated headpiece in gold, blue and red (f. 1v, 401v); illuminated text dividers (f. 158v, 221r); fill of pink flowers in empty, ruled textblock (f. 401v-402r). Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; headings centered and framed in gold rules; rubrications in red and gold.

Script

Written in neat nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Clarence H. Clark (bookplate first flyleaf recto).
   
• Sold at the Clarence H. Clark sale by Stan V. Henkels at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. book auction rooms on November 30, 1909, lot 189 (catalog clipping pasted onto first flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (bookplate first flyleaf recto).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Turkish--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Tārīkh-i Salānīkī.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated medallion
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 2r — Gold overpaint
• fol. 158v — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 221r — Illuminated text divider
• fol. 401r — Gold foliate fill
• fol. 401v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 401v — Pink floral fill
• fol. 402r — Pink floral fill