Kitāb-ı İskendernāme
كتاب اسكندرنامه

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Title
Kitāb-ı İskendernāme
كتاب اسكندرنامه
Alternative Title
İskendername 880-02
اسكندرنامه. 240-02/r
Creator
Ahmedî, 1334?-1413
أحمدي
Contributor
Münīr b. Sāliḥ.
Published / Created
1458/1459.
Publication Place
Ottoman Empire
Abstract

Illuminated manuscript (incomplete) on paper of İskendernāme by Aḥmedī, an account of the life of Alexander the Great written in masnavi verse. An encyclopedic work, it also discusses philosophy, politics, ethics, astronomy, and medicine, as well as Islamic history through the Ottoman period. Fol. 2 wanting; first and final folios damaged, with some loss of text, and repaired

Description
In Ottoman Turkish.
Title from text ending (f. 289b). Manuscript title in later hand added above opening headpiece: Hāz̲ā Kitāb-ı Aḥmedī (هذا كتاب أحمدي).
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Colophon indicates manuscript was copied by Münīr? b. Sāliḥ (منير بن صالح فقه) in H. 863/1458-1459.
Layout: Double columns of 13 lines. Catchwords on each verso.
Script: Naskh.
Binding: Flap binding, quarter-bound black leather over paper pasteboard, black embossed paper on covers and envelope flap, yellow-green paper pastedowns.
Decoration: Illuminated frontispiece in double-page illumination, damaged, with second folio now wanting; f. 1b contains a Hadith: قال النبى عليه السلام الدنيا اولهل بكا اوسطها عناو. Headings in green and red.
Accompanied by reproduction of opening pages of another manuscript copy of İskendernāme, which supply text of wanting f. 2 (2 photographs), title page of a calendar dated 1967 (1 leaf), and notes on the text in unidentified modern hand (2 leaves).
Provenance
Modern ownership inscription of Maḥmūd 'Aġā (محمود اغا), Muḥammed Efendi ( محمد افندي), and Hāfıẓ Muḥammed Ṭāhir Efendi (حافظ محمد طاهر افندي), sons of Bektāşīz̲āde Ḥāfıẓ Z̲āhid Efendi (حاجي بكتاشه ذاده حافظ ذاهب افندي) (f. 290b). Purchased from Oskar Rescher.
Extent
1 item (i + 290 + ii leaves) : 270 mm x 185 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Turkish, Ottoman

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Turkish MSS suppl. 25

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Poetry
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Annotations (Provenance) 20th century
Flap bindings (Binding)
Manuscripts, Turkish 15th century
Turkish manuscripts
Material
paper ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Turkey
Subject (Name)
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Subject (Topic)
Manuscripts, Turkish
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish
Masnavis, Turkish
Turkish poetry
History
Subjects
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Poetry
Manuscripts, Turkish > Connecticut > New Haven
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish
Masnavis, Turkish
Turkish poetry
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
19th century
20th century
15th century
Turkish manuscripts
محمود اغا > Ownership
Maḥmūd 'Aġā > Ownership
محمد افندي > Ownership
Muḥammed Efendi > Ownership
حافظ محمد طاهر افندي > Ownership
Ḥāfıẓ Muḥammed Ṭāhir Efendi > Ownership
Rescher, Oskar, 1884-1972 > Ownership

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Citation
Ahmedı̂, Kitāb-ı İskendernāme. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Catalog Record
99165395753408651
Object ID (OID)
33620009

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