Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kitâb-i Cihan-nüma.
كتاب جهان نما

Authors

• Nesrî, -approximately 1520
• Neşrî, -approximately 1520

Other related names

• Nöldeke, Theodor, 1836-1930, scribe
• Taeschner, Franz, 1888-1967, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 38
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914696373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492309
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex38.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Ottoman Turkish, with notes in German

Origin

Date

1857

Place

Vienna

Summary

19th-century copy of Flügel 386 (Nationalbibliothek, Vienna), a late 15th-century history of the Ottoman sultans, by Neşrı̂. A note in the hand of Theodor Nöldeke, who copied the manuscript, was laid in the manuscript, with the heading Varianten, lemmata in Turkish, and notes in German.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• The title given inside the front flyleaf reads: Nešri. Abschrift der Wiener Handschrift von Theodor Nöldeke; spine title reads: Nešri.
   
• This manuscript was examined by Professor Aḥmad Mahdavī Dāmghānī. His notes in Persian are on file in the Library.
   
• The original Vienna manuscript from which this copy was made is listed in the catalogue compiled by Gustav Flügel (1802-1870), Die arabischen, persischen un türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien (Vienna: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1865-67; reprinted, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1977-). Cited as Flügel 386.
   

Extent

177 leaves : 208-212 x 168-174 (200 x 120-130) mm bound to 225 x 185 mm +

Foliation

Paper, i + 177 + i; [1-168, 168[a]-176], later foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century quarter-cloth (type 3), marbled paper covers, gilt spine Nešri.

Layout

Written in 16-24 long lines, with a wide right margin for notes; text lines written right to left, but pages proceed left to right (as foliated in manuscript).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Franz Taeschner, editor of an edition of this work (Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1951-1955).
   
• Appears in the catalog of Franz Taeschner's Turkish collection (Turcica), catalogue No. 426 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), number 1204 (price, catalog, and item number in pencil, inside upper cover).
   
• Acquired after 1970.
   

Subjects topical

• Middle East--History--Chronology
• Turkey--History--1288-1453

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Marginalia (annotations)
• Histories
• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, 19th century

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kitâb-i Cihannüma