Cevhernāme
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- Country
- Austria
- City
- Vienna
- Institution
- National Library
- Shelfmark
- 1448
Contents
- Cevhernāme (شروانى، محمد بن محمود)
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- Author
- شروانى، محمد بن محمود
- Show other names
- Şirvānī, Muḥammed b. Maḥmūd (d. ca. in between 841/1438 and 1451)
- Muhammed bin Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, active 15th century (authorised)
- Mehmet bin Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, active 15th century (variant)
- Muhammed bin Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, 15th cent (variant)
- Muhammed ibn Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, active 15th century (variant)
- Şirvânî, Muhammed bin Mahmût, active 15th century (variant)
- Biographical notes
- A physician and author in the service of several rulers, including the Germiyanid Yaʿḳūb Beg of Kütahya, and the Ottoman sultans, Meḥmed I and Murad II. He spent the latter part of his life in Bursa. He has been confused with his contemporary, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammed Dilşad Şükrullâh Şirvānī, author Murādnāme and Tarīḫ-i İbn Kesīr Tercümesi, and has been dubiously attributed with these following works: Kemāliyye, Bāhnāme Tercümesi and Harīdetü’l-Acā’ib ve Cerīdetü’l-Garā’ib Tercümesi.
- Title
- Cevhernāme
- جوهرنامه
- Notes
- This work is a Turkish adaptation of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī (d. 651/1253)’s lapidary, the Azḥār al-Afkār fī jawāhir al-aḥjār (“Best Thoughts on the Best of Stones”), which was written around 637 AH [1240 CE] and describes the special properties of 25 gems and minerals, including their medicinal and magical uses. The work was prepared for Timurtaş Umur Bey (d. 865/1461) in 831 AH [1427 CE].
- The place of composition is Bursa.
- Main language of text
- Turkish
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Aktürk, Murat. "Muhammed b. Mahmûd Şirvânî. Cevhernâme (İnceleme-Metin)." B.A. Thesis, Kayseri Erciyes Üniversity, 1998.
- Studies
- Muhammed b. Mahmûd-ı Şirvânî, . Tuhfe-i Murâdî. İnceleme - Metin - Dizin. Edited by Argunşah, Mustafa. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1999, 11-16.
- Okumuş, Necdet. "Şirvānī, Muhammed b. Mahmūd." TDVİA. 39 2010: 206-208.
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- Leipzig Senate Library 231
- Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi 1493
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- n/a ff.
History
- Date of copy
- 20th. century