Full Description
The sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan is today universally recognized as the defining figure in the development of the classical Ottoman style. In addition to his vast oeuvre, he left five remarkable autobiographical accounts, the Adsız Risale, the Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye, Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn, Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye and Teẕkiretü'l-Bünyān, that provide details of his life and works. Based on information dictated by Sinan to his poet-painter friend Mustafa Saʿi Çelebi shortly before his death, these accounts exist in multiple manuscript versions in libraries in Istanbul, Ankara, and Cairo.
The present volume contains critical editions of all five texts along with transcriptions, annotated translations, and facsimiles of the most important variant versions; and an introductory essay that analyzes the various surviving manuscripts, reconstructs their histories, and establishes the relationships between them; and a preface that considers the sources, themes, and broader implications of the five autobiographies.
Contents
Preface: "Sources, Themes, and Cultural Implications of Sinan's Autobiographies" by Gülru Necipoğlu
Authors' Notes and Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
Abbreviations
Introduction .
Synopsis of Relationships between Texts and Manuscripts Works Cited
Adsız Risale, (AR) [Untitled Treatise]
Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye, (RM) [Treatise on Architecture]
Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn, (TM) [Choice Gift of the Architects]
Tezkiretü'l-Ebniye (TE) [Record of Buildings]
Teẕkiretü'l-Bünyān (TB) [Record of Construction]
Collations of Tezkiretü'l-Ebniye
Collations of Teẕkiretü'l-Bünyān
Note on the Format of Appendices
Appendix I: Citation Index of Buildings Listed in Tezkiretü'l-Ebniye
Appendix II: Sequence of Citations in Inventories Listed in Tezkiretü'l-Ebniye
Appendix III: Comparison of Prose Introduction in AR, RM, TM, and TE
Facsimiles
Index
