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Kātib Čelebiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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The commemoration volume published by the Turkish Historical Society for the tercentenary of the death of the Ottoman polymath Kātib Čelebi (1609–57) contains an exhaustive survey of his works by 0. Ş. Gökyay, with much new information on the extant manuscripts. Here appears a description of his Rawnaq al-salṭana ‘Splendour of the sultanate’, previously known only from the author's cursory mention of it, in his Mīzān al-ḥaqq, as ‘a history of Constantinople’.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1963

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page 173 note 1 Kâtip çelebi: hayati ve eserleri haklanda incelemeler (TTK, vn. Seri, No. 33), Ankara, 1957, 56Google Scholar.

page 174 note 1 This work, in one of the Latin editions, was also available directly to Kātib Čelebi, who translated it into Turkish with the help of his amanuensis, the renegade French priest Sheykh Meḥemmed Ikhlāṣī. Selections from this translation were published by Shināsī in his newspaper Taṣvīr-i Efkār, and a MS survives in the private library of Bay Izzet Koyunoğlu at Konya (0. Ş. Gökyay, op. cit., 54–6).

page 174 note 2 ‘Osmān Nūrī Pasha was governor of Ishqodra (Albanian Scutari) from 24 Jumādā II 1251, until 2 Rajab 1252 (Sijill-i ‘Osmānī, iii, 466). For the term muḥaṣṣil, in the sense of ‘independent governor of a sanjak’, see Hammer, GOR, x, 706.

page 174 note 3 Hammer, J. von, Rumeli und Bosna, Wien, 1812Google Scholar.

page 174 note 4 Concordance: MS fol. 26 = Rumeli und Bosna, 16–21; fols. 36, 28, 30–5, 29, 37–51 = RB, 24–125; fol. 56 map only for RB, 125–30; fols. 57–8, 67a, 60–4 = RB, 130–46; fols. 69–70 = RB, 146–57; fols. 67–8 = RB, 158–74; fols. 65–6 = RB, 174–9.

page 175 note 1 The closing words are similar to the conclusion of MSS Revan 1624/2, etc., quoted by Gokyay, O.Ş. in Kâtip Čelebi: hayati ve eserleri haklanda incelemeler, Ankara, 1957, 70Google Scholar

page 175 note 2 This map is not listed in the table of contents, but it is written in the same style and hand as the others, on paper with the same watermarks.

page 175 note 3 For the history of the text of the Jihān-numā see F. Taeschner's summing up of his earlier studies in Imago Mundi, i, 1935, 44–7.