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Dürr-i meknūn ve ʻacāʼibu'l-maḫlūkāt
Creator
احمد بيجان
Title
Dürr-i meknūn ve ʻacāʼibu'l-maḫlūkāt.
در مكنون و عجائب المخلوقات.
Created
Ottoman Empire, 1698/1699.
Physical Description
1 item (213 leaves) : paper ; 215 mm x 150 mm
Language
Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Title from text heading (f.1b).
Colophon indicates that manuscript was copied in H.1110/1698-1699. (f. 213a).
Includes contemporary pagination numbering first 100 pages, beginning with f. 1b as p. 1.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Single column of 13 lines. Catchword on each verso.
Script: Naskh.
Binding: Quarter-bound in brown leather, damaged, over paper pasteboards. On front cover, an almond-shaped label with manuscript title: در مكنون و عجائب المخلوقات.
Decoration: Text frames (f.1b-12b), rubrication.
Some water damage obscuring text on final leaves.
In Ottoman Turkish.
Provenance
Date in an unidentified later hand: 1255 [that is, 1839-1840]. Unidentified modern bookseller description pasted to front pastedown. Unidentified octagonal stamp (ff. 1a, 73a). Gift of the Library Associates.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, of Dürr-i meknūn ve ʻacāʼibu'l-maḫlūkāt by Aḥmed Bīcān, written in the Turkish Anatolian vernacular for a popular audience. A religious, mystical, and apocalyptic text, it consists of 18 chapters in verse on cosmology, creation, the marvels of the world, the lives of the Prophets, geography, physiognomy, medicinal plants, divination, portents, and eschatology.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2023
References
Ahmet Bican, Dürr-i meknūn ve ʻacāʼibu'l-maḫlūkāt. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Ahmet Bican, Dürr-i meknūn ve ʻacāʼibu'l-maḫlūkāt. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 17th century.
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