Acaib-i mahlukat
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- Country
- United Kingdom
- City
- London
- Institution
- British Library
- Repository
- St. Pancras
- Collection
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Shelfmark
- Sloane_4088
Contents
- Acaib-i mahlukat (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
- Acaib-i mahlukat
- عجايب مخلوقات
- Wonders of Creation
- Notes
- A cosmographies! work
- Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican says in the preface that he translated this work into Turkish for the benefit of his countrymen, ignorant of Arabic. This was done at the time when Sulṭan Ghāzī Muḥammad Khān conquered Istanbul (Turkey) in 857 AH [1453 CE]
- This work is an abstract from the well known ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt (عجائب المخلوقات) of Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283, which, by the omission of entire chapters and severe curtailing of others, has been reduced to less than a fifth of its bulk
- Main language of text
- Ottoman Turkish
- Bibliography
- Catalogue
- Rieu, Charles. Catalogue of the Turkish manuscripts in the British museum. London: British Museum, 1888, 106-107.
Physical Description
- Number of folios
- 73 ff
- Dimensions of folio
- width 14cm, height 21.6cm
- Columns
- 1
- Ruled lines
- 13
History
- Date of copy
- Probably 17th century