[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 34
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1136
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 2 texts 136 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 136 ff. Dimensions : 203 mm x 114 mm. Script : Nestalik.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the following two texts:. (I) ff 1v-94r : Tuhfetü'l-haremeyn by Yusuf Nabi, an account of the author's pilgrimage to Mekke and Medine via Anatolia, Iraq, Syria and Palestine in 1089 AH (1678 CE). The original work was written four years after the author's return and contains text in both prose and poetry;. (II) ff 95v-136v : Tarih-i Kaminçe-i Nabi Efendi, an account of the taking of Kaminieć (Podolya) by the Grand Vezir Ahmet Köprülü in 1083 AH (1672 AH). This text was also composed by Yusuf Nabi in a mixture of prose and verse. The manuscript was copied by Mehmet Sait and completed in Cumazievel 1136 AH (January-February 1724 CE).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Acquired from the collection of G. C. Renouard.

Other Finding Aids

Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1888), p. 260.

Related Material

Other copies of text I can be found at Or 7159 text I; Or 7164 text I; Or 16276; Or 16283; Add MS 7853; and Add MS 7904 text VIII. Another copy of text II can be found in Or 7477 ff 6v-36v. For more information on text I, see M. Coskun, 'The most literary Ottoman pilgrimage narrative: Nabi's Tuhfetü'l-Haremeyn', in Turcology in Turkey: selected papers, Szeged 2007 (Studia uralo-altaica 47), pp. 79-106; also A. Karahan, 'Nâbi', IA VIII, pp. 3-7; GOW pp. 237-8. For more information on text II, see Haj. Khal., vol. VI, p 537; Hammer, Geschichte des Osmanliches Reiches, VI, p. vi, and IX, p. 207; Krafft's Catalogue, No. 276; Flügel, Vienna Catalogue, I, p. 672, and II, p. 281.

Bibliography

Text I: Nabi, Yusuf, Tuhfet ül-Haremeyn (Istanbul: Dar üt-Tıbaat ül-Amire, 1265 [1849]). Text II: Nabi, Yusuf, Tarih-i Kaminçe (Istanbul: Tercümân-i Ahvâl Matbaası, 1281 [1864]).