Cevahirü'l-ıkyan fi şerh Umdati'l-irfan - جواهر العقيان في شرح عمدة العرفان

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 11045
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 130 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 130 ff. Dimensions : 252 mm x 160 mm. Ruling : Gold-ruled text frames. Script : Calligraphic nesih, fully vocalized. Ink : Primary text in black, headers in red; with white, blue, red and gold ink for illumination.

Scope and Content

This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish commentary, without the author identified, on Hamdullah İbn-i Hayreddin's ᶜumdat al-ᶜirfān fī waṣf ḥurūf al-Qur'ān (عمدة العرعان في وصف حروف القرآن), a metrical work written in 948 AH (1541-42 CE) on the letters prefixed to some sureler. The original text of the Ottoman Turkish commentary was completed in 951 AH (1544-45 CE). The titled given above is in white letters on a gold medallion on the first folio and, in addition, it mentions that Hamdullah was that Hatıp at Aya Sofya Camii. The text contains a single unvan and considerable damp staining along the margins. This manuscript was likely copied in the mid-16th century CE.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher on 14 April 1929.

Related Material

For more information on Hamdullah İbn-i Hayreddin's ᶜumdat al-ᶜirfān fī waṣf ḥurūf al-Qur'ān, see Brockeelmann II, p. 438 and S. II, p. 650.