Full Description
The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502-3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503-4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time.
Contents
Contents
VOLUME I: ESSAYS
PREFACE BY THE EDITORS
Overview and Significance of the Palace Library Inventory
1. Gülru Necipoğlu, The Organization of Knowledge in the Ottoman Palace Library: An Encyclopedic Collection and Its Inventory
2. Cemal Kafadar, Between Amasya and Istanbul: Bayezid II, His Librarian, and the Textual Turn of the Late Fifteenth Century
3. Cornell H. Fleischer, Learning and Sovereignty in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The Palace Library as a Collection and the Book Arts
4. Zeynep Atbaş, Artistic Aspects of Sultan Bayezid II's Book Treasury Collection: Extant Volumes Preserved at the Topkapı Palace Museum Library
5. Zeren Tanındı, Arts of the Book: The Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscripts Listed in ʿAtufi's Inventory
6. Judith Pfeiffer, Prizing the Divan: The Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Literary Canon as Mirrored in the Inventories of Müeyyedzade's and Bayezid II's Library Collections
Book Titles and Their Disciplines in the Palace Library Inventory
7. Mohsen Goudarzi, Books on Exegesis (tafsīr) and Qurʾanic Readings (qirāʾāt): Inspiration, Intellect, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Post-Classical Islam
8. Recep Gürkan Göktaş, On the Hadith Collection of Bayezid II's Palace Library
9. Guy Burak, The Section on Prayers, Invocations, Unique Qualities of the Qurʾan, and Magic Squares in the Palace Library Inventory
10. Abdurrahman Atçıl, The kalām (Rational Theology) Section in the Palace Library Inventory
11. Himmet Taşkömür, Books on Islamic Jurisprudence, Schools of Law, and Biographies of Imams of the Hanafi School
12. Mürteza Bedir, Books on Islamic Legal Theory (uṣūl al-fiqh)
13. Cemal Kafadar and Ahmet Karamustafa, Books on the Lives of Saints, Sufism, and Sermons
14. Hüseyin Yılmaz, Books on Ethics and Politics: The Art of Governing the Self and Others at the Ottoman Court
15. Nükhet Varlık, Books on Medicine: Medical Knowledge at Work
16. Aleksandar Shopov, "Books on Agriculture (al-filāḥa) Pertaining to Medical Science" and Ottoman Agricultural Science and Practice around 1500
17. Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahin, On the Works of a Historical Nature in the Bayezid II Library Inventory
18. Pınar Emiralioğlu, Books on the Wonders of Creation and Geography in ʿAtufi's Inventory
19. Tahera Qutbuddin, Books on Arabic Philology and Literature: A Teaching Collection Focused on Religious Learning and the State Chancery
20. Sooyong Kim, An Ottoman Order of Persian Verse
21. Christopher Markiewicz, Books on the Secretarial Arts and Literary Prose
22. Ferenc Csirkés, Turkish/Turkic Books of Poetry, Turkish and Persian Lexicography: The Politics of Language under Bayezid II
23. Noah Gardiner, Books on Occult Sciences
24. A. Tunç Şen and Cornell H. Fleischer, Books on Astrology, Practical Astronomy, and Celestial Magic
25. Jamil Ragep and The McGill Astral Science Team, Astronomical and Other Mathematical Sciences in ʿAtufi's Inventory of Bayezid II's Library
26. Elaheh Kheirandish, Books on Mathematical and Mixed-Mathematical Sciences: Arithmetic, Geometry, Optics, and Mechanics
27. Khaled El-Rouayheb, Books on Logic (manṭiq) and Dialectics (jadal)
28. Dimitri Gutas, Philosophical Manuscripts: Two Alternative Philosophies
APPENDICES
Appendix I-III: Some Identified Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II's Seal
APPENDIX I: Zeynep Atbaş, Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II's Seal in the Topkapı Palace Museum Library
APPENDIX II: Zeren Tanındı, Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II's Seal and Transferred from the Topkapı Palace Inner Treasury to Other Library Collections
APPENDIX III WITH PLATES FROM MANUSCRIPTS AT THE TOPKAPI PALACE MUSEUM LIBRARY: Gülru Necipoğlu, Some Books Bearing the Seal of Bayezid II and/or Dedications to Him: A Comparison of Titles Inscribed by His Librarian and Corresponding Entries in the Library Inventory
Appendix IV-V: English Translations of the Librarian ʿAtufi's Ottoman Turkish and Arabic Prefaces to the Palace Library Inventory
APPENDIX IV: Gülru Necipoğlu, Translation of ʿAtufi's Ottoman Turkish Preface to the Palace Library Inventory
APPENDIX V: Mohsen Goudarzi, Translation of ʿAtufi's Arabic Preface to the Palace Library Inventory
VOLUME II: TRANSLITERATION AND FACSIMILE "REGISTER OF BOOKS" (KITĀB AL-KUTUB)
MS Török F. 59, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény
(Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Principles Observed in Transliterating MS Török F. 59
Transliterated Text of MS Török F. 59, prepared by Himmet Taşkömür and Hesna Ergun Taşkömür
Facsimile of MS Török F. 59
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