Mecmuatü'l-letaif ve matmuretü'l-maarif - مجموعة اللطائف و مطمورة المعارف

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 13197
  • Dates of Creation
    • 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 577 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 577 ff. Dimensions : 262 mm x 155 mm. Ruling : 16 to 33 lines. Script : Talik.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a commentary on the Mesnevi of Celaleddin Rumi by Şeyh İsmail Dede el-Ankaravi, also known as Rusuhi (died 1041 AH/1631 CE). The commentary is a blend of two of the author's previous works (Fatihu'l-ebyat and the Cami'ü'l-ayat) and was composed in 1039 AH (1629-30 CE). The first work contains İsmail Dede's comments on the first 18 verses of the Mesnevi while the Cami'ü'l-ayat explains the Arabic texts from the Qur'an and the Ḥadīth quoted in the poem. This manuscript is undated but was likely copied in the 18th century CE.

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in September 1969.

Related Material

Other copies of this work can be found at Or 14077 and Harley MS 5490 texts II-III. For more information on the author and this work, see Rieu, Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 234-35; OM I, pp. 24-25; GAL S.II, p. 662 no 7; and Yetik, Erhan, 'Ankaravî, İsmâil Rusuhî: Mevlevî şeyhi ve Mesnevi şârihi,' Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Last accessed: 20 August 2021. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ankaravi-ismail-rusuhi. Persian translation of the Defterler included in this volume also exist, and were completed by. ᶜIṣmat Sittār-zādah, see İsmail Rüsuhi Ankaravi, Sharḥ-i kabīr-i Anqiravī bar Masnavī-'i maᶜnavī-'i Mavlavī, ed. Sattār-zādah, ᶜIṣmat (Tihrān: Intishārāt-i zarrīn, 1349-2535 [1970-76]).