MEHMED CAMIZADE KNOWN AS KELAMI-I RUMI: VEKAYI-I 'ALI PASHA (EVENTS...
MEHMED CAMIZADE KNOWN AS KELAMI-I RUMI: VEKAYI-I 'ALI PASHA (EVENTS OF 'ALI PASHA)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY
Biography of Yavuz Ali Pasha, prose and verse, Ottoman manuscript on light burnished paper, 144ff., plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. neat black diwani arranged in one and two columns, key words, punctuation and headings in red ink, gold sprinkled text panel within gold and black rules, catchwords, f.2v with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, f.77r with colophon in red ink marked by red string thumbpiece on f.76, f.1r with preface in triangular text panel, red morocco binding with gilt stamped cusped arabesque medallions on the covers and flap
Text panel 7 1⁄8 x 4 3⁄8 in. (18 x 11cm.); folio 11 ½ x 7 ½in. (29.2 x 19.8cm.)
Provenance
With Rudolf Dvořák (d.1920), Czechoslovakia, per handwritten inscription on the opening flyleaf
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MEHMED CAMIZADE KNOWN AS KELAMI-I RUMI: VEKAYI-I 'ALI PASHA (EVENTS OF 'ALI PASHA)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY
Biography of Yavuz Ali Pasha, prose and verse, Ottoman manuscript on light burnished paper, 144ff., plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. neat black diwani arranged in one and two columns, key words, punctuation and headings in red ink, gold sprinkled text panel within gold and black rules, catchwords, f.2v with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, f.77r with colophon in red ink marked by red string thumbpiece on f.76, f.1r with preface in triangular text panel, red morocco binding with gilt stamped cusped arabesque medallions on the covers and flap
Text panel 7 1⁄8 x 4 3⁄8 in. (18 x 11cm.); folio 11 ½ x 7 ½in. (29.2 x 19.8cm.)
Provenance
With Rudolf Dvořák (d.1920), Czechoslovakia, per handwritten inscription on the opening flyleaf
Estimate
Time, Location
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