Dūrr-i Maknūn
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- Country
- United Kingdom
- City
- London
- Institution
- British Library
- Repository
- St. Pancras
- Collection
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Shelfmark
- Add. 7895
Contents
- Dūrr-i Maknūn (Ahmet Bican, 15th cent.)
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- Author
- Ahmet Bican, 15th cent.
- احمد بيجان
- Show other names
- Yāzijī Oghli Aḥmad Bījān
- Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican
- Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (authorised)
- Ahmed Bican, active 15th century (variant)
- Ahmed Bijan, active 15th century (variant)
- Ahmet Bican, 15th cent (variant)
- Bican, Ahmet, active 15th century (variant)
- Bidøjøan, Aḥmet, active 15th century (variant)
- Bijan, Ahmed, active 15th century (variant)
- Yaz♯łc♯łoglu Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (variant)
- Yaz♯łc♯łzade Ahmet Bican, active 15th century (variant)
- ʹƯ ·Ơʹ (variant)
- Biographical notes
- The early Ottoman mystic and author of religious and apocalyptic works, Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed, d. after 1465, was the son of Yazıcı Ṣāliḥ b. Süleymān, a clerk employed in the Ottoman government, and younger brother of Yazıcıoğlu Meḥmed, d. 855/1451. Born in a village outside of Malkara (Tekirdağ, Turkey), he later settled in Gelibolu (Turkey) where he composed his works during the reigns of Murad II, Sultan of the Turks, 1404-1451 and Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481. Yazıcıoğlu Aḥmed Bīcān was a disciple of Hacı Bayram Veli, -1429 the founder of the Bayramīyah order.
- Title
- Dūrr-i Maknūn
- در مكنون
- Notes
- A cosmographies! work
- The author does not appear in the present copy but is clearly the well-known mystic, Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican, who lived in Gallipoli (Turkey) in the 9th century [1397-1494 CE]
- Main language of text
- Ottoman Turkish
- Bibliography
- Editions
- Bican, Ahmet. Dürr-i Meknun: kritische Edition mit Kommentar. Edited by Kaptein, Laban. Asch [Netherlands]: Herausgegeben im Selbstverlag, 2007.
- Bican, Ahmet. Dürr-i Meknûn: inceleme, çevriyazı, dizin, tıpkıbasım. Edited by Demirtaş, Ahmet. İstanbul: Akademik Kitapla, 2009.
- Catalogue
- Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits turcs. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-33, 160.
- Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 105-106.
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 114 ff
- Dimensions of folio
- width 14cm, height 19.7cm
- Columns
- 1
- Ruled lines
- 19
- Decoration
- Ruled margins
History
- Date of copy
- 17th. century