Descrizione

Original full imitation red leather bdg. with traditional mystical sun (shamsa). Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 19 cm). Facsimile in Ottoman script; pp. 15 text in English; pp. 15 text in Turkish (with different two booklets), 102 unnumbered original color miniatures, color ills. Rosary of the times (Subhatu'l-ahbâr): A seventeenth-century representation of world history in genealogical form with 102 miniatures from Adam and Eve to Mehmed IV. Facsimile print by Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1981, The original of the manuscript is kept in the Austrian National Library (Codex AF 50). Illuminator: Hasan al-Musavvir al-Istanbulî (Hüsain the Painter from Istanbul). English version by Dr. Hans Suesserott, Julia Anita Babeluk. [with] Preface, introduction and description of the manuscript booklet in English and Turkish (Subhatu'l-ahbâr -Haberler tesbihi: Asli Avusturya Millî Kütüphanesinde Cod AF 50 numarada kayitli bulunan 17. yüzyila ait 102 minyatürden olusma elyazmasi bir Türk eserinin Avusturyanin Graz sehrinde Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Matbaasi tarafindan yapilmis baskisi hakkinda açiklamalar. Texts by Sevket Rado and statement by Dr. Kurt Holter. Dervish Mehmed bin [b.] Seyh Ramazan has written a chronic which collects the events from the period of prophet Adam to 15th century and sovereigns' names as a genealogical format in the period of reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (Kanunî Sultan Süleyman). 1000 copies were printed.

Lingue: Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)