[Mecmua-yi Musiki] - مجموعۀ موسیقی

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12982
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1176
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 codex 94 ff Materials : Paper. Dimensions : 208 x 130 mm. Foliation : European, 94 ff. Script: Various 18th century hands, primarily ta'liq. Ink: Primarily black ink, occasionally sprinkled with gold, sparing use of green and red ink; illustrations in various coloured inks. Binding: Contemporary Ottoman binding.

Scope and Content

A collection of poems and songs arranged according to the various fasl to which they are to be sung or played. The manuscript also contains various accounts and random jotings and two tracts of an allegorical character:. (ff 10r-13v) Mükeyyifatname. (ff 55v-60v) Sukka-yı niza'-yi tuyur ül-mezbur kema hüve mestur by Yusufçuk Efendi, Kadı of Kuşadası. The manuscript is rich in illustration, including images of flowers (ff 14v, 16v, 18v, 21v, 26v, 30r, 34r, 37r, 40r, 42r, 47r, 48v, 41v, 54v, 63v, 66v, 69v, 71v, 73v, 76v, 79v) and drawings of various types of Turkish warships in an amateur hand (ff 36r, 41r, 44r, 45r, 53r, 69r, 70v, 72r, 75v-76r, 77r, 78r, 84r-85v, 86r). The date 1176 AH (1762-63 CE) appears on f 61r.

Administrative / Biographical History

Formerly Or.34.Cd.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased from J. Thornton and Sons of Oxford, December, 1965.