Kitāb-ı İskendernāmeكتاب اسكندرنامهAhmedî, 1334?-1413أحمدي1458/1459.otaIlluminated 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 repairedIn 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).