Topkapı Sarayı

Treasures of Knowledge An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4) VOLUME I: ESSAYS

Type
book
Year
2019

The Spatial Organization of Knowledge in the Ottoman Palace Library: An Encyclopedic Collection and Its Inventory

Gülru Necipoğlu

1–77


Between Amasya and Istanbul: Bayezid II, His Librarian, and the Textual Turnof the Late Fifteenth Century

Cemal Kafadar

79–153


Learning and Sovereignty in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Cornell H. Fleischer

155–160


Artistic Aspects of Sultan Bayezid II's Book Treasury Collection: Extant Volumes Preserved at the Topkapı Palace Museum Library

Zeynep Atbaş

161–211


Arts of the Book: The Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscripts Listed in ʿAtufi's Inventory

Zeren Tanındı

213–239


"The Ottoman Muse Fluttered, but Poorly Winged": Müeyyedzade, Bayezid II, and the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Literary Canon

Judith Pfeiffer

241–266


Books on Exegesis (tafsīr) and Qurʾanic Readings (qirāʾāt): Inspiration, Intellect, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Post-Classical Islam

Mohsen Goudarzi

267–308


On the Hadith Collection of Bayezid II's Palace Library

Recep Gürkan Göktaş

309–340


The Section on Prayers, Invocations, Unique Qualities of the Qurʾan, and Magic Squares in the Palace Library Inventory

Guy Burak

341–366


The kalām (Rational Theology) Section in the Palace Library Inventory

Abdurrahman Atçıl

367–388


Books on Islamic Jurisprudence, Schools of Law, and Biographies of Imams from the Hanafi School

Himmet Taşkömür

389–422


Books on Islamic Legal Theory (uṣūl al-fiqh)

Mürteza Bedir

423–438


Books on Sufism, Lives of Saints, Ethics, and Sermons 

Cemal Kafadar and Ahmet Karamustafa

439–507


Books on Ethics and Politics: The Art of Governing the Self and Others at the Ottoman Court

Hüseyin Yılmaz

509–526


Books on Medicine: Medical Knowledge at Work

Nükhet Varlık

527–555


Books on Agriculture (al-filāḥa) Pertaining to Medical Science" and Ottoman Agricultural Science and Practice around 1500

Aleksandar Shopov

557–568


On the Works of a Historical Nature in the Bayezid II Library Inventory

Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahin

569–596

 

Books on the Wonders of Creation and Geography in ʿAtufi’s Inventory

Pınar Emiralioğlu

597–606

 

Books on Arabic Philology and Literature: A Teaching Collection Focused on Religious Learning and the State Chancery

Tahera Qutbuddin

607–634

 

An Ottoman Order of Persian Verse

Sooyong Kim

635–656

 

Books on the Secretarial Arts and Literary Prose

Christopher Markiewicz

657–672

 

Turkish/Turkic Books of Poetry, Turkish and Persian Lexicography: The Politics of Language under Bayezid II

Ferenc Csirkés

673–733

 

Books on Occult Sciences

Noah Gardiner

735–765

 

Books on Astrology, Astronomical Tables, and Almanacs in the Library Inventory of Bayezid II

Tunç Şen and Cornell H. Fleischer

767–821

 

Astronomical and Other Mathematical Sciences

Authors: 

Jamil Ragep, Sally Ragep, Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan, Fateme Savadi, and Hasan Umut

823–855

 

Books on Mathematical and Mixed-Mathematical Sciences: Arithmetic, Geometry, Optics, and Mechanics

Elaheh Kheirandish

857–890

 

Books on Logic (manṭiq) and Dialectics (jadal)

Khaled El-Rouayheb

891–906

 

Philosophical Manuscripts: Two Alternative Philosophies

Dimitri Gutas

907–934

 

APPENDIX I: Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II’s Seal in the Topkapı Palace Museum Library

Zeynep Atbaş

937–981

 

APPENDIX II: Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II’s Seal and Transferred from the Topkapı Palace Inner Treasury to Other Library Collections

Zeren Tanındı

983–1009

 

APPENDIX III WITH PLATES FROM MANUSCRIPTS AT THE TOPKAPI PALACE MUSEUM LIBRARY: Some Books Bearing the Seal of Bayezid II and/or Dedications to Him: A Comparison of Titles Inscribed by His Librarian and Corresponding Entries in the Library Inventory

Gülru Necipoğlu

1011–1075

 

APPENDIX IV: Translation of ʿAtufi’s Ottoman Turkish Preface to the Palace Library Inventory

Gülru Necipoğlu

1077–1078

 

APPENDIX V: Translation of ʿAtufi’s Arabic Preface to the Palace Library Inventory

Mohsen Goudarzi

1079–1080

Citation

Necipoğlu, Gülru, and Cornell H. Fleischer, eds. 2019. Treasures of Knowledge : An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library : Volume I : Essays. Leiden: Brill.

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Koninklijke Brill NV

Country

Türkiye

Language

English

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1094 pp.

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