| Summary: | Elegant copy of Nabi's continuation of Veysî's (d. 1628) work on the sīrah of the Prophet, Dürretü't-tac fî sîret Sâhibi'l-mirâc or Siyer-i Veysî. Contents listing on front flyleaf and 'title page' (pp.4-5). Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 675 Origin: As appears in colophon on p.446, copied by Khalīl ibn Muḥammad (Halil bin Mehmet) with transcription completed in Istanbul during the first days of Rabīʻ II 1165 [February 1752]. Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and spine label, "IL 418" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip). Binding: Pasteboards now covered in blue coated, textured paper with dull red leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (traces of gold rule border visible) Type II binding (once with, flap now lost) pastedowns and flyleaves in brown surface-dyed wove paper sewn in red thread, two stations worked endbands damaged with cores exposed and tailband virtually gone overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, loss of flap, etc. Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20 and 21 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of lion rampant (see p.34, 35, etc.) and grapes under crown (see p.394, 395, etc.), thin, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished moisture damage in the upper outer corner of many leaves some pigment burn to breakthrough at the 'gilt' frame. Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.6 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche flanked by floral motifs in white, pink, lavender, orange-red, and green on a gilt ground pricked here and there with three dots, surmounted by a scalloped w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration of the same type on grounds of blue and gold (also pricked) and itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue with red accents entire piece set into a well of orange-red with a series of black crosses text of incipit and facing page set off by gold strokes, effectively crude 'cloud-bands' written area surrounded by 'gold' frame (gone to green on many leaves) keywords and section headings rubricated textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas occasional overlining in red. Script: Naskh clear, compact Turkish hand virtually serifless with effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, mainly curvlinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots. Layout: Written in 25 lines per page frame-ruled. Collation: ii, 21 V(210), VI (222), i quinions followed by a senion catchwords present foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves). Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم بعونه سبحانه وتعالى في اوائل ربيع الثاني لسنه خمس وستين وماء [مائة] والف بمحروسة دار السلطنة العلية القسطنطنية المحميه حماها الله عن عامه البليه وانا العبد الفقير خليل بن محمد عاملهما الله تعالى بالحسنى والزياده والحمد لله وحده" Explicit: "اشتمال ايله اعلاى درجات امتيازده جلو كر قيلنمق شيوۀ خفيۀ تقديردن متسبعد [مستبعد] دكلدر" Incipit: "يا رب سحاب فيضى باران ايله اول فيضله كشت كامى ريان ايله ." Title from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1). Ms. codex. Brit. Mus. Cat. Turkish MSS., Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn (ed. Fluegel), Elegant copy of Nabi's continuation of Veysî's (d. 1628) work on the sīrah of the Prophet, Dürretü't-tac fî sîret Sâhibi'l-mirâc or Siyer-i Veysî. Contents listing on front flyleaf and 'title page' (pp.4-5). Mode of access: Internet. Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother. Effaced former owners' marks (including oval seal impression) on front flyleaf (p.3) as well as signature "محمود سامى" (Mahmut Sami) possible former inventory marks on 'title page' (p.5) occasional marginal corrections or glosses (often marked with signes de renvoi).
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