拍品專文
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.
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.