Accession number
MS M.788
Object title
Maṭāliʻ al-saʻāda wa manābiʻ al-siyāda.
Display Date
ca. 1582.
Created
Probably Constantinople, ca. 1582.
Binding
At one time bound in faded 19th century green leather tooled in gold and with cream silk moiré doublures; rebound in gilt black morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1954 (preserved and housed separately as MS M.788A); rebound in 1992 by Deborah Evetts in quarter dark brown morocco with natural Irish linen sides.
Credit line
Purchased from Demotte and Company, 1935.
Description
138 leaves (variable lines and scripts), bound : paper, ill. ; 276 x 170 mm
Provenance
Made for ʻĀyisha Sulṭān (d. 1604), daughter of Ottoman Sultan Murād III (ruled 1574-1595); her name on fol. 4; then possibly ʻĀyisha Sulṭān (b. 1605), eldest daughter of Aḥmed I (ruled 1603-1617); purchased from Demotte and Company, New York, through Herbert P. Weissberger, 1935.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated probably in Constantinople, ca. 1582.
Texts: three treatises (on astrology, marvels and demonology, and fortune-telling); the first two sections, Kitāb al-mawālid (Book of nativities, fol. 4v-89v) are translated from the Arabic, with some editing, by al-Suʻūdī, Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Amīr Ḥasan (d. 1591); the third section, Qurʻa-i Jaʻfariyya (The divination of Jaʻfar, fol. 90-137v), is usually attributed to the Shiʻite Imam Jaʻfar Sadīq.
Decoration: 71 miniatures.
Texts: three treatises (on astrology, marvels and demonology, and fortune-telling); the first two sections, Kitāb al-mawālid (Book of nativities, fol. 4v-89v) are translated from the Arabic, with some editing, by al-Suʻūdī, Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Amīr Ḥasan (d. 1591); the third section, Qurʻa-i Jaʻfariyya (The divination of Jaʻfar, fol. 90-137v), is usually attributed to the Shiʻite Imam Jaʻfar Sadīq.
Decoration: 71 miniatures.
Script
naskh and muḥaqqaq
Language
Turkish
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