Haza Kitab-i Tuhfetü'l-haremeyn li Nabi Rahmet Allah aleyh - هذا كتاب تحفة الحرمين لنابى رحمة الله عليه

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 16283
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1167
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 71 ff Materials : Off-white laid paper. Foliation : European, 71 ff (incorrectly foliated). Dimensions : 217 mm x 160 mm. Ruling : Red headings and text frames. Script : Nestalik. Ink : Black ink. Binding : Limp dark brown morocco boards, damaged and partially repaired.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a literary account of the author's journey to Mekke and Medine in the year 1089 AH (1678 CE), composed four years later in mixed prose and verse. The author of the original work is Yusuf Nabi (died 1124 AH/1712-13 CE). In addition to the main text, the work also contains a colophon on f 70v, and valedictory verses in Ottoman Turkish (f 71v). This is followed by four lines of Arabic-language moral advice attributed to Celaleddin (Rumi?) in the same hand as the main text. The manuscript was copied in 1167 AH (1753 CE) by Hafız Ömer İbnü'l-Hacc İbrahim el Cevrimi, el-Kadı bi ekradlık sabiken el-Meşhur bi Sinekçizade, in the town of Cevrim, mahalle of İsa Halife.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Library at Bonhams, 12 October 2006; part of Lot 46.

Related Material

Other copies of the same text can be found at Or 34 text I; Or 7159 ff 1v-55v; Or 7164 ff 2v-82v; Or 16276; Add MS 7853; Add MS 7904 ff 208v-261v. See also 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.

Bibliography

See: Nabi, Yusuf, Tuhfet ül-Haremeyn (Istanbul: Dar üt-Tıbaat ül-Amire, 1265 [1849]).