Tuhfetü'l-ümera ve minhetü'l-vüzera - تحفة الامراء و منحة الوزراء

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 6416
  • Dates of Creation
    • 17th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 165 ff Materials : Italian paper. Foliation : Western, 165 ff. Dimensions : 214 mm x 137 mm. Script : Nesih. Watermarks : Several relating to Vicenza, Italy from 1537 and 1543 CE.

Scope and Content

This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation by Abdussalam Şükrullah el-Amasi of the work on polity and administration entitled Al-durrat al-gharrā fī naṣāᵓiḥ al-mulūk wa'l-wuzarāᵓ of Maḥmūd bin Ismāᵓīl al-Jīzī. The text contains one unvan. The manuscript is undated, but the paper on which it was copied bears a watermark associated with Vicenza in 1537 CE and 1543 CE, implying that the date of transcription was in the latter half of the 16th century. The date, however, might be considerably later than that, given the large nesih hand in which the text is copied.

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