Summary View

Country

Turkey

City

Ankara

Institution

Milli Kütüphane

Collection

Milli Kütüphane Yazmalar Koleksiyonu

Shelfmark

no. A 5007

Contents

Murādnāme (Şirvānlı Maḥmūd)

Author

Şirvānlı Maḥmūd

محمود بن محمد شرواني

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Maḥmūd b. Muḥammed Şirvānī

Maḥmūd b. Muḥammed Bedr-i Dilşād Şirvānī

Bedr-i Dilşād

محمود بن محمد بدر دلشاد شرواني

شروانلي محمود

بدر دلشاد

Şirvanlı Mahmud, active 15th century (authorised)

Mahmud, Şirvanlı, active 15th century (variant)

Şirvanlı Mahmud, 15th cent (variant)

Biographical notes

Commonly referred to simply by his penname (mahlāṣ) Bedr-i Dilşād, Maḥmūd b. Muḥammed Şirvānī (807/1404-ca. mid- or late fifteenth century), was an author from a scholarly family who dedicated two Turkish works to Murad II (d. 855/1451). Bedri-i Dilşād has been frequently confused with his contemporary, Muḥammed b. Maḥmūd Şirvānī (d. after 841/1437-38).

Title

Murādnāme

مرادنامه

Notes

This Turkish translation of the eleventh-century Persian classic, the Qābūsnāma, was dedicated to Murad II (d. 855/1451) in 829 AH [1425-1426 CE] and survives in a unique manuscript. The original Qābūsnāma, composed for ʿUnṣur al-Maʿālī Kaykāʾūs b. Iskandar b. Qābūs (d. after 475/1082-83), a prince of the Ziyarid dynasty in Tabaristan and Gilan, was one of the most popular medieval Persian works of rational discourse on moral behavior. Whereas the original Persian Qābūsnāma consists of forty-four chapters which dispense practical advice on all aspects of the adab or proper conduct, manners and virtues for the political elite, this Turkish translation consists of 51 chapters and a total of 10410 couplets. The relationship of this Turkish translation or adaptation with the original Persian has not been clearly established. It contains much original information, and ends with a set of apocalyptic chapters such as the appearance of the Mahdi and the Dajjāl, as well as Jesus’s descent to earth and the conquest of Istanbul. Some scholars have incorrectly attributed the work to Muḥammed b. Maḥmūd Şirvānī (d. after 841/1437-38).

The place of composition is Western Anatolia, possibly Bursa.

Main language of text

Turkish

Bibliography

Editions

Ceyhan, Adem. Bedr-i Dilşâd ve Murād-nâmesi I-II. İstanbul: Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Yayınları, 1997.

Studies

Bayat, Ali Haydar. "Bedr-i Dilşad ve Muradname’de Tababet." Tıp Tarihi Araştırmaları. 4 1990: 62-63.

Bayat, Ali Haydar. "XV. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tıbbının Büyük Üstadı Muhammed bin Mahmud Şirvânî (1375-1450) Hayatı ve Eserleri." Kubbealtı Akademi Mecmûası. 25 1996: 22-43.

Cunbur, Müjgân. "Murad-nâme." Millî Kültür. 1 1977: 60-63.

Çelebioğlu, Âmil. "Kabus-name Tercümesi Murâd-nâme’ye Dair." Türk Kültürü. XVI, no. 192 October 1978: 719-728.

Physical Description

Number of folios

325 ff.

Columns

1

Ruled lines

17

History

Date of copy

15th. century