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• Title:Treasures of knowledge : an inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) / edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Cemal Kafadar, and Cornell H. Fleischer.
  
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• Variant Title:Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4)
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Necipoğlu, Gülru, editor.
  Kafadar, Cemal, 1954- editor.
  Fleischer, Cornell H., 1950- editor.
  Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Könyvtár és Információs Központ. Keleti Gyűjtemény. Manuscript. Török F. 59.
  
• Published/Created:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Z6621.T53 T74 2019
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1-2
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane--Catalogs.
  Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Könyvtár és Információs Központ.
  Manuscripts--Turkey--Istanbul--Catalogs.
  Manuscripts, Arabic--Hungary--Budapest.
  
• Genre/Form: Catalogs.
  
• Description:2 volumes ; 28 cm
  
• Series:Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture ; v. xiv/i & v. xiv/ii.
  
• Summary:The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkap? Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian?Atufi in the year 908 (1502?3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503?4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the turn of the fifteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.
  
• Notes:Volume 2 comprises a facsimile, with transliteration, of the manuscript Budapest, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Oriental Collection, Török F. 59.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  Text in English, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish.
  
• ISBN:9789004402485 set hardcover alkaline paper
  9004402489 set hardcover alkaline paper
  9789004386983 volume I hardcover alkaline paper
  900438698X volume I hardcover alkaline paper
  9789004402454 volume II hardcover alkaline paper
  9004402454 volume II hardcover alkaline paper
  9789004402508 electronic book
  
• Contents:Volume I. Essays
  Volume II. Transliteration and Facsimile, Register of Books (Kitāb al-kutub).