AN OTTOMAN TURKISH MANUSCRIPT, BOOK OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL...

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AN OTTOMAN TURKISH MANUSCRIPT, BOOK OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL EXPERIENCES

Description

Ibnu Abd al- Mu’in ( known as Lutfi Pasha, d.1564), Asafname, Turkey, Ottoman, Ottoman Turkish manuscript on different coloured papers, 269 leaves plus 23 flyleaves, 27 lines to the page , written in different diwani and ta’liq scripts in black and red ink, brown leather binding with stamped floral medallions, with marbled paper (ebru) doublures, with Imperial seals and stamps.

Dimensions
40 x 14 x 4.5 mm

Date
circa 1630

Literature
'Abd al-Mu'in( Lutfi Pasha), the grand vizier of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent between 1539 and 1541. He wrote twenty-one works in total, on the subjects of Islamic theology, ethics and history, including the Tawarikh-i Al-i Osman and Asafname. The latter work represents a catalogue of the ministers and counsels from Lutfi Pasha's wide experience of government administration, as well as a short list of his political reforms. The present manuscript contains the full text of the work, as well as a summary of Ottoman court events between 1597 and 1627. For other copies of the work, see R. Tschudi, Das Asafname des Lutfi Pasha, Leipzig, 1910. Notes at the beginning of the manuscript state that it was among the effects and property of Sheyda (Şeyda) Efendi, the reisülküttab (Chief Secretary) under Mahmud II (r.1808-39) and that it was acquired by a certain Seyyid Mehmed Rasim,katib (secretary) of the Imperial Land Registry (defterhane-i amire) on 17 Muharram 1241 AH/16 August 1826. Source: Sotheby's, https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/arts-islamic-world-l16220/lot.32.html

Provenance
Sotheby's