Lot 126

Ibrahim al-Haqqi. Ma’rifetname, an illustrated encyclopaedia, copied by Mustafa better known as bin Uturaqchi as-Sayyid ‘Umar, a pupil of Abdullah al-Anis better known as Muzzahibzadeh al-Erzurumi
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1238/ AD 1822

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Islamic & Indian Art

29 April 2004, 10:30 BST

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Ibrahim al-Haqqi. Ma’rifetname, an illustrated encyclopaedia, copied by Mustafa better known as bin Uturaqchi as-Sayyid ‘Umar, a pupil of Abdullah al-Anis better known as Muzzahibzadeh al-Erzurumi
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1238/ AD 1822

Turkish manuscript on watermarked paper, 353 leaves, last folio left blank, 35 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in black ink, headings, significant words and sentences picked out or underlined in red throughout, double interlinear and intercolumnar rules in gold, catchwords in wide margins, numerous coloured diagrams and tables, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold preceded by ten folios of index, slightly creased, brown morocco with stamped central medallions and outer borders, slightly worn, slight discoloration restricted to few folios, repairs to lower part of spine, with flap, doublures and fly-leaves of marbled paper
268 x 170 mm.

Footnotes

According to M. Rogers, the Ma’rifetname, an encyclopaedia of cosmological topics compiled in AH 1170/ AD 1756-7 by Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakki, is actually more concerned with eschatology, including hell, than celestial or terrestial geography, it nevertheless contains interesting planispheric maps of the Old and New Worlds. These were drawn by a surveyor (muhendis) named as Mustafa, and were based on the Atlas Major of the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), which was influential in the 18th-century Ottoman Turkey.” See J.M. Rogers, Empire of the Sultans, London, 1996, pp.121-123, no. 74. The Khalili Ma’rifetname dated AH 1226 / AD 1811, is considered to be one of the earliest recorded copies. Also compare to the British Library copy, MS.Or.12964, which was completed in Erzurum in AH 1235/ AD 1820.

Other copies of the Ma’rifetname were included in sales in these rooms on 14th October 1998, lot 148; Christies, 1st April 1982, lot 182; 21st November 1986, lot 51; 16th June 1987, lot 58; 10th October 1989, lot 291, and 10th October 2000, lot 50.

Literature:
C. S. Revnakoglu, Ezeruri Ibrahim Hakki ve Marifatname, Istanbul, 1961.

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Ibrahim al-Haqqi. Ma’rifetname, an illustrated encyclopaedia, copied by Mustafa better known as bin Uturaqchi as-Sayyid ‘Umar, a pupil of Abdullah al-Anis better known as Muzzahibzadeh al-Erzurumi Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1238/ AD 1822

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Ibrahim al-Haqqi. Ma’rifetname, an illustrated encyclopaedia, copied by Mustafa better known as bin Uturaqchi as-Sayyid ‘Umar, a pupil of Abdullah al-Anis better known as Muzzahibzadeh al-Erzurumi
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1238/ AD 1822

Ibrahim al-Haqqi. Ma’rifetname, an illustrated encyclopaedia, copied by Mustafa better known as bin Uturaqchi as-Sayyid ‘Umar, a pupil of Abdullah al-Anis better known as Muzzahibzadeh al-Erzurumi
Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1238/ AD 1822