كاتب چلبي، 1609-1657.

Tuḥfat al-kibār fī asfār al-biḥār. Ottoman Turkish

تحفة الكبار في أسفار البحار. تركي عثماني

Tuḥfetü'l-kibār fī esfārü'l-biḥār, [18--?] / Kâtip Çelebi.

تحفة الأخيار في الحكم والأمثال والأشعار

Title from text opening (f. 2a).

Romanization supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Single columns of 29 lines. Catchwords on each verso.

Script: Naskh.

Decoration: Maps of world (f. 4a), of Mediterranean (f. 5a), and of Europe (f. 8a); rubrication including frames.

Binding: Flap binding, brown leather over paper pasteboards. Gold-tooled and gold-painted, with central mandorlas on covers and flaps.

Incipit: Sername-ʼi destanı cihnani setan hamd ve sipas-i hudavend-i zemin ve zaman olmak sanadır ki nassı kerim Wa-inna Jundanā la-humu al-ghālibūn mazmunin ile askari İslami te'yid ve nazmu mubin ...

Incipit: سرنامۀ داستان جهان ستان حمد وسپاس خداوند زمين وزمان اولمق سنرادر که نص كريم وإن جندنا لهم الغالبون مضمونى ايله عسكر اسلامى تاييد ونظم مبين ...

Colophon: Padişah alemi pana ʻammaraallahu teala qanunları bulup seyfi şeriatı şerif ve kanunu siyaset ile icra eylemek esbabı yolunda mubaşeritin şartıdır Allahu teala muyesser eyleye. Amin.

Colophon: پادشاه عالم پناه عمّر الله تعالى قانونلرى بلوب سيف شريعت شريف وقانون سياست ايله اجراه ايلمك اسبابه يولندن مباشرتك شرطيدر الله تعالى ميسر ايليه. امين.

In Ottoman Turkish; translated from Arabic.

Illuminated manuscript on paper of Tuḥfetü'l-kibār fī esfārü'l-biḥār by Kâtip Çelebi, a naval history of Turkey in the 16th and 17th centuries. Translated into Ottoman Turkish by Seyyid Mehmet Hüsni Yahya Kadızade.

The text is preceded by a table of contents, preceded by a leaf on which is a note and seal in Arabic: Naqala hādhā al-kitāb Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusnī Yaḥyá Qādizādah ( نقل هذا الكتاب سيد محمد حسني يحيى قادزاده). It ends with praises by several prominant persons including Shaykh al-Islām Muṣṭafá (ff. 100a-103b).

Turkey > History, Naval.

Turkey > History > 1453-1683.