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MEHMED IBN SALIH YAZICIOGLU (D. 1451-52 AD): RISALE-I MUHAMMEDIYYE
MEHMED IBN SALIH YAZICIOGLU (D. 1451-52 AD): RISALE-I MUHAMMEDIYYE
MEHMED IBN SALIH YAZICIOGLU (D. 1451-52 AD): RISALE-I MUHAMMEDIYYE
MEHMED IBN SALIH YAZICIOGLU (D. 1451-52 AD): RISALE-I MUHAMMEDIYYE
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MEHMED IBN SALIH YAZICIOGLU (D. 1451-52 AD): RISALE-I MUHAMMEDIYYE

SIGNED AL-HAJI MEHMED IBN ABU BAKR KNOWN AS HELVAJI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, IZMIR, DATED 14 SHA'BAN AH 1196/25 JULY 1782 AD

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MEHMED IBN SALIH YAZICIOGLU (D. 1451-52 AD): RISALE-I MUHAMMEDIYYE
SIGNED AL-HAJI MEHMED IBN ABU BAKR KNOWN AS HELVAJI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, IZMIR, DATED 14 SHA'BAN AH 1196/25 JULY 1782 AD
Poetry in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, Ottoman Turkish and Arabic manuscript on cream paper with tre lune watermark, 289ff. plus two flyleaves, 17ll. of black naskh arranged in two columns between gold and black intercolumnar rules, Arabic verses in red, within gold and black rules, catchwords, occasional marginal notes in red, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing text, 36 similarly illuminated panels throughout, decorated with 39 illustrations, illustrative motifs, diagrams and hilyehs, colophon signed and dated, flyleaves with later owner's notes, in brown morocco with stamped and gilt central lobed medallion and flap, brown leather doublures with gold painted medallion and border
Text panel 9 3/8 x 5 7/8in. (23.7 x 14.7cm.); folio 12 ¾ x 8 ¾in. (32.3 x 22.3cm.)
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The present work is the author's own Ottoman Turkish translation of his original Arabic text Magharib al-zamman li-ghurub al-ashaya fi’l ‘ain wa’l-‘iyan. This lavishly illustrated copy contains numerous lively illustrations related to the life of the Prophet Muhammad, Adam and Eve, Mecca and Medina, the Hajj, as well as the al-Aqsa mosque, Dome of the Rock, Paradise, Hell, the Judgment Day and includes a hilyeh of the Prophet. The colophon names the scribe as al-Hajji Mehmed ibn Abu Bakr, better known as Helvaji.

A copy of this work, dated AH 1005/1597 AD (MS Turk. d. 6), is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Kut, 2003, no. 63, p. 47). For other copies see Blochet, 1932-33, A.F. 238, S. 319 – 21, and Rieu, 1888, 168a.

Another copy of the present work dated AH 1237/1822 AD was sold at Sotheby’s, London, 25 October 2017, lot 52.

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