Sübha el-ebrar fi tevarih el-enbiya aleyhim el-selam
Abstract
Description
1v-50r; Titles from fol.1v, 3v; Name of the author from fol.3v; translated by Yusuf b. Abdüllatif; This work was dedicated to Sultan Süleyman (the introduction in the present manuscript mentions Sultan Selim, his son). In our copy, the Ottoman dynasty is updated to include Sultan Abdülmecid (1823-1861); Undated, but produced during the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid.
Layout: Varying layout.
Script: Naskh script, black ink with headers and and some phrases in red and green.
Decoration: Polychrome illuminated unwan with gold (fol.1v); gold, black and red borders; dots (durak) with gold.
Binding: In a contemporary red leather binding; Gold-tooled medallions (shamsa); In a folding box, green boards and brown leather linings.
In muraqqa format; text written only on one side of the folios, the other sides left blank; An excellent copy.
With watermark.
Incipit (2r): حمد بی حد و ثنای بی عد اول حکیم وقدیمه و علیم و کریمه که موجب خمرت طین ادم بیدی اربعین صباحا ید قدرت ...
Explicit (50r): ... سلطان عبدالمجيدخان خلد الله ملکه
Layout: Varying layout.
Script: Naskh script, black ink with headers and and some phrases in red and green.
Decoration: Polychrome illuminated unwan with gold (fol.1v); gold, black and red borders; dots (durak) with gold.
Binding: In a contemporary red leather binding; Gold-tooled medallions (shamsa); In a folding box, green boards and brown leather linings.
In muraqqa format; text written only on one side of the folios, the other sides left blank; An excellent copy.
With watermark.
Incipit (2r): حمد بی حد و ثنای بی عد اول حکیم وقدیمه و علیم و کریمه که موجب خمرت طین ادم بیدی اربعین صباحا ید قدرت ...
Explicit (50r): ... سلطان عبدالمجيدخان خلد الله ملکه
Keywords
Prophets-Islam-Genealogy, Islamic Empire-Genealogy, Sultans-Turkey-Genealogy, Turkish manuscripts-İstanbul-Turkey
Citation
Boogert, Nico, Catalogue 635: Islamic manuscripts, Leiden: Smitskamp, 2002, pp.272-274