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Kitâb-i Cihan-nüma.
كتاب جهان نما.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 38
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Neşrî, -approximately 1520.
- Standardized Title:
- Cihannüma
- Language:
- German
- Turkish, Ottoman
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Chronology.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--History--Chronology.
- Turkey--History--1288-1453.
- Turkey.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Turkish.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- histories (literary genre)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- marginalia (annotations)
- Penn Provenance:
- Acquired after 1970.
- Formerly owned by Franz Taeschner, editor of an edition of this work (Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1951-1955).
- Appears in the catalog of Franz Taeschner's Turkish collection (Turcica), catalogue No. 426 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970), number 1204 (price, catalog, and item number in pencil, inside upper cover).
- Physical Description:
- 177 leaves : paper ; 208-212 x 168-174 (200 x 120-130) mm bound to 225 x 185 mm + 1 note
- Production:
- Vienna, 1857.
- Language Note:
- Ottoman Turkish, with notes in German.
- Summary:
- 19th-century copy of Flügel 386 (Nationalbibliothek, Vienna), a late 15th-century history of the Ottoman sultans, by Neşrı̂. A note in the hand of Theodor Nöldeke, who copied the manuscript, was laid in the manuscript, with the heading Varianten, lemmata in Turkish, and notes in German.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- The title given inside the front flyleaf reads: Nešri. Abschrift der Wiener Handschrift von Theodor Nöldeke; spine title reads: Nešri.
- Foliation: Paper, i + 177 + i; [1-168, 168[a]-176], later foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 16-24 long lines, with a wide right margin for notes; text lines written right to left, but pages proceed left to right (as foliated in manuscript).
- Binding: 19th-century quarter-cloth (type 3), marbled paper covers, gilt spine Nešri.
- Origin: Copied from Flügel 386, Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, in 1857 by Theodor Nöldeke (note in English, inside upper cover).
- This manuscript was examined by Professor Aḥmad Mahdavī Dāmghānī. His notes in Persian are on file in the Library.
- The original Vienna manuscript from which this copy was made is listed in the catalogue compiled by Gustav Flügel (1802-1870), Die arabischen, persischen un türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien (Vienna: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1865-67; reprinted, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1977-). Cited as Flügel 386.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 38.
- OCLC:
- 122492309
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