This volume contains the following two works:. (I) ff 2v-45v : Şefikname, a narrative of the revolt of the Janissaries and the deposition of Sultan Mustafa II in 1115 AH (1703 CE) by Şefik. Mehmet Şefik Efendi, known as Masrafzade, Secretary of the Imperial Divan, died in 1127 AH (1715 CE). The work, which is divided into nine unnumbered makaleler, is written in a style so belaboured and enigmatic as to be unintelligible without the commentary that follows;. (II) ff 46v-127v : Şerh-i Şefikname, a commentary on the preceding work by Mehmet İbn-i Ahmet İbnü'l-Hac Musalli. The author says in the preface that in the middle of the month of Şaban 1122 AH (October 1710 CE), he was cast by adverse fate upon the shore of Midilli (Lesbos, contemporary Greece). Being detained there during the month of Ramazan, he devoted that enforced leisure to the composition of the present work, with the object of fully elucidating the Arabic and Persian verses and proverbial phrases occurring in the Makalatu'ş-Şefikiye, composed in 1115 AH (1703 CE) by Mehmet Şefik. The text contains abundant marginal annotations throughout. This manuscript was likely copied in the 18th century CE.
Şefikname ve Şerh-i Şefikname - شفيقنامه و شرح شفيقنامه
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or 3296
- Dates of Creation
- 18th century
- Language of Material
- Turkish
- Physical Description
- 2 texts 127 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 127 ff. Dimensions : 210 mm x 127 mm. Ruling : 17 lines. Script : Nestalik.
Scope and Content
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the British Museum from the collection of S. de Sacy.
Other Finding Aids
Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 63-64; and Bibliothèque de M. S. de Sacy III, p. 61, under the title el-Makalatu'ş-şefikiye.