Walters Ms. W.662, Turkish version of Sindbadnama Tuḥfet ül-aḫyār تحفة الاخيار Kātib al-Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Kātib al-Samarqandī al-Ẓāhīrī محمد بن علي كاتب السمرقندي الظهيري ʿAbdülkerīm bin Muḥammed عبد الكريم بن محمد Principal cataloger Gacek, Adam Cataloger Landau, Amy Cataloger Smith, Sita Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Barrera, Christina Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Noel, William Contributor Simpson, Shreve Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Conservator Jewell, Stephanie Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This is an Ottoman illustrated and illuminated copy of the Tuḥfet ül-aḫyār, which is an Ottoman Turkish version of the well-known story of Sindbad (Sindbādnāmah), written by ʿAbdülkerīm bin Muḥammed during the reign of Sultan Süleyman (Soliman) (reg. 926 AH / 1520 CE -- 974 AH / 1566 CE). The text is written in black naskh script with incidentals in gold and red, and chapter headings are in gold. The manuscript dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and opens with an illuminated incipit page (fol. 1b). There are a total of six illustrations. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.662 The primary language in this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928). The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian. 1b - 142b Tuḥfet ül-aḫyār تحفة الاخيار حمدنا محمود وثنائنا معدود ... Text contains words and phrases in Arabic and Persian: Persian equivalents to the Arabic given between the lines in red; Turkish meanings written in margins

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 Foliation: i+142+ii20.5 13.0 13.5 7.0 Last folio left blank

Occasionally written obliquely on versos

Framing lines in red, black, and blue Written in small naskh script in black ink with some words in gold and red; chapter headings in gold Six illustrations; illuminated incipit page (fol. 1b) containing a headpiece and the doxological formula (basmalah); illuminated text markers Illuminated incipit with headpiece Incipit; headpiece This illuminated incipit page has a headpiece inscribed with the doxological formula (basmalah) in white tawqīʿ script on gold background. Sindbād instructing the king's son Illustration The inscription in the panel over the door on the right reads: yā Fattāḥ (oh, Opener). One of the king's wives attempting to seduce the prince Illustration The inscription in the panel on the right reads: al-sulṭān al-ʿādil (the just ruler). A meeting between the viziers and the king Illustration Seven court officials (viziers) plead with the king for the release of the prince due to false accusations made by a woman. Confectioner directing a parrot to watch his unfaithful wife Illustration A confectioner is shown directing a parrot to keep watch over his unfaithful wife. The inscription above the door reads: al-sulṭān (the ruler). Prince hunting with his father's ministers Illustration Old woman convincing a young woman by means of a crying dog Illustration

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 10th century AH / 16th CE Turkey Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Relevant Works Renda, Günsel. "'Sindbādnāma': An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style," Muqarnas 21 (Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers) (2004): 311-322. For the various versions of the this story see “Sindbād al-Ḥakīm (Syntipas).” Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed, Vol. 2. Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Judaism Talmud Collection of Sermons Notable Notable binding Textbook Scholarly compendium Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Literature Japanese Japan Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Codex Manuscript Turkish Walters Art Museum Headpiece Illumination Illustration Islamic Miniature Painting Book Turkey History Ottoman