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

Title

Genealogical and dynastic tables.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 89
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515793
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124682449
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_089.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515793

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Ottoman Turkish

Origin

Date

1091 A.H. (1680)

Place

Van, Turkey

Summary

Genealogical tables and notes on the prophets and major Middle Eastern dynasties, including some Pre-Islamic dynasties. The tables begin with the Prophet Muḥammad and then recount the dynasties up to the year 1143 A.H. (1730), the year of the beginning of the reign of Sultan Mahmud I of Turkey. The genealogies between 1091 and 1143 A.H. were added in a different hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Notations on inside front cover.
   
• Numerous stamps with the scribe's name appear throughout.
   
• Catalog entry, number 186, pasted in (first front flyleaf recto).
   

Extent

Iii, 70, ii leaves : 310 x 216 (254 x 143) mm bound to 310 x 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto including some flyleaves (1-72); catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap on the right side (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla and cornerpiece with matching stamps on flap; yellow laid paper doublure.

Layout

Numerous sets of concentric circles with a name written inside the interior circle and color filled in between the two circles connected by lines to other circle-sets. Text appears at angles among the circles. Several pages of prose history without roundels, chiefly 21 long lines.

Decoration

Roundels are decorated with red, yellow and green dots and in-fill with red lines connecting them. Rubrications in red. Two headpieces in red and black (f. 48v, 49v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Sold at Sotheby's in February 1925 (note in pencil, first front flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic Empire--Kings and rulers--Genealogy
• Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Genealogy

Genres

• Manuscripts, Turkish
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Genealogical tables
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v — [Genealogical and dynastic tables].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notations
• fol. 3v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 4r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 4v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 5r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 5v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 6r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 6v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 7r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 12r — Stamp
• fol. 12r — Circle
• fol. 12r — Tabular layout
• fol. 12v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 12v — Stamp
• fol. 13r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 13r — Stamp
• fol. 13v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 14r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 14v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 15r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 15v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 16r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 16v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 16v — Stamp
• fol. 17r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 17v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 18r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 18v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 19r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 19v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 20r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 20v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 21r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 21v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 22r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 22r — Stamp
• fol. 22v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 23r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 23v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 24r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 24v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 25r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 25v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 26r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 26v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 27r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 27v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 28r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 28v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 29r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 29v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 30r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 30v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 31r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 31v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 32r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 32v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 33r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 33v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 34r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 34v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 34v — Stamp
• fol. 35r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 35v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 36r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 36v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 37r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 37v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 38r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 38v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 39r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 39v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 40r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 40v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 41r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 41v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 42r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 42v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 43r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 43v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 44r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 44v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 45r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 45v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 46r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 46v — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 47r — Genealogical diagram
• fol. 48v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 48v — Stamps
• fol. 49r — Stamp
• fol. 49v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 49v — Stamps
• fol. 60r — Stamp