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IBRAHIM HAQI EZURUMI: MA'ARIFATNAME
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IBRAHIM HAQI EZURUMI: MA'ARIFATNAME

OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1238/1822-3 AD

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IBRAHIM HAQI EZURUMI: MA'ARIFATNAME
OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1238/1822-3 AD
Astromony, Turkish manuscript on cream paper, 352 ff. plus 1fl each with 32ll. of clear black naskh within black and gold rules, catchwords, headings and important words in red, major headings in white on gold ground, opening illuminated headpiece in typical late Ottoman style, signed Mustafa known as Utur Aqji, a pupil of 'Abdullah al-Anis known as Mudhahhib-Zada al-Ardarumi, dated 1st dhu'l-qa'da, AH 1238 (10 July 1823 AD ) copious coloured scientific diagrams, on ff.23v., 24r., 28r., 36v., 36r., 40r, 42r., 62r., 63v., 64r., 64v., 65r., 71v., 73v., 74r., 74v., 75r., 79v., 80r., 86r., 86v., 87r., 87v., 91v., 92r., 92v., 93r., 93v., 94r., 99r., 102r., 320v. respectively, brown stamped morocco binding, good condition throughout
Folio 10 5/8 x 6¾in. (26.8 x 17cm.)
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This is a lavish copy of the Ma'arifatname, a cosmological encyclopaedia compiled by Ibrahim Haki Erzurumi in AH 1170/1756-7 AD. It mostly concerns eschatological topics, such as Hell, but includes intriguing planispheric maps of the Old and New Worlds. These are based on those in the Atlas Major by the Dutch cartographer Joan Bleu (1596-1673), which was well-known in the Ottoman realm in the 18th century.

Another copy is in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, dated 13 Sha'aban AH 1226/2 September 1811 AD, illustrated in J.M. Rogers, Empire of the Sultans, London, 1999, no.74, p.121-123. Rogers mentions a third copy in the British Library, MS.PR.12964, dated Shawwal AH 1235/July-August 1820 AD.