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Vanḳuli
Creator
وان قولي محمد افندی, -1592.
Title
Vanḳuli.
وانقولي
Created
Ottoman Empire, 1600-1799.
Physical Description
1 item (572 leaves) : paper ; 310 mm x 210 mm
Language
Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Title from tail edge: Vanḳuli (وانقولي). Title note in German in later hand on verso front flyleaf: Vangule.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Single columns of 31 lines. Catchword on each verso.
Script: Nasta'līq.
Decoration: Rubrication including frames.
Binding: Silver-tooled foliate central mandorla inlaid over brown leather, and frames, marbled paper doublure.
Contemporary annotations of Arabic words and their Ottoman Turkish equivalents (f. 1a).
Thread tabs in alternating green and red sewn into outer margins to mark important passages.
Water damage to final thirty folios, with some blurring of text.
In Ottoman Turkish, with some Arabic.
Provenance
Ownership inscription on recto second flyleaf: Süleymān Efendi (سليان أفندي) H. 1136 [that is,1724]. Ownership inscription on front recto second flyleaf: El-Ḥācc Meḥmed bin Ḫalife (الحاج محمد بن خليفة) H. 1169 [that is, 1756]. Ownership inscription on recto second flyleaf: Ebūbekir ferzend-i (son of) ‘Alī (ابو بكر فرزند علي) H.1189 [that is, 1775] including his three oval stamps. Ownership inscription on recto second flyleaf with his four circle stamps: Süleymān ibn Ḥüseyin (سليان ابن حسين) H. 1223 [that is, 1809]. Oval stamp and ownership inscription (f. 1a): El-Ḥācc Muṣṭafá bin Alī known as Ḥancı-zāde (الحاج مصطفي بن علي حنجي زاده). Book stamp and ownership inscription (f. 1a): Muṣṭafá bin Meḥmed known as Ṣāliḥpaşa-zāde (مصطفى بن محمد صالح پاشازاده). Donation inscription of Süleymān Efendi (سليمان أفندي), born in Tekfurdağı (that is, Edirne, Turkey). One unidentified red stamp also on recto second flyleaf. Purchased from Oskar Rescher on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1970.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Vankulu Mehmet Efendi is known also as Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Wānī.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, of Vankulu Mehmet Efendi's Vanḳuli, an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Arabic dictionary Tâcü'l-luġat ve ṣıḥâḥu'l-ʻArabiyye (تاج اللغة وصحاح العربية) by el-Cevherī (الجوهري). Translation preserves some grammatical terms in Arabic. Marginal corrections throughout by the scribe of the main text.
Variant and related titles
Luġat-ı Vanḳuli
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
November 16, 2023
References
Vankulu Mehmet Efendi, Vanḳuli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Vankulu Mehmet Efendi, Vanḳuli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations - 17th century.
Illuminated manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 17th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 18th century.
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