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Isma'il Effendi Ankaravi, Jami' al-Ayat, a commentary on verses (ayat) from the Qur'an and verses (abyat) from Jalal-ad-Din Rumi's Mesnevi, in six books (kitab) Ottoman Turkey, dated 15th Ramadan 1033/ 1st July 1624
8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Isma'il Effendi Ankaravi, Jami' al-Ayat, a commentary on verses (ayat) from the Qur'an and verses (abyat) from Jalal-ad-Din Rumi's Mesnevi, in six books (kitab)
Ottoman Turkey, dated 15th Ramadan 1033/ 1st July 1624
Ottoman Turkey, dated 15th Ramadan 1033/ 1st July 1624
Ottoman Turkish manuscript on cream-coloured thin paper, 190 leaves, 21 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in black ink, significant sentences and words either picked out or underlined in red, inner margins ruled in gold, catchwords in wide outer margins, title written in naskhi script in red at beginning of each book, six illuminated headpieces in colours and gold marking the beginning of each book (kitab), some inner margins split and crudely repaired otherwise in good condition, contemporary dark red morocco, covers with stamped central medallions and cornerpieces decorated with intertwining stylised flowerheads and serrated leaves on gold ground, doublures of brown morocco gilt, with flap with similar decoration as the covers, slightly worn, spine rebacked, some crude repairs, folio 1r with three ownership inscriptions written in naskhi script in black ink including an inscription of a former owner, Shaykh Ahmed Effendi Zad al-Sayyid Sa'd-ad-Din Muhammad, preacher at the Rustam Pasha Mosque, Constantinople, seal impression dated AH 11[10]/ AD 1698 or 11[20]/ AD 1708
223 x 130 mm.
223 x 130 mm.
Footnotes
A work by Ankaravi entitled Fatihul Ebyat, a commentary on the first eighteen lines of Rumi's Mesnevi, dated AH 1085/AD 1675, is in the New York Public Library. See B. Schmitz, Islamic Manuscripts in the New York Public Library, Oxford and New York 1992, p. 369, cat. no. VII. 10, Spencer, Turk. ms. 19.