الفلك المشحون باللؤلؤ المکنون
By: ʿAbdüllaṭīf Rāzī
Contributors: Birnbaum, Eleazar, 1929-2019, former owner
Published: 1757
Place of publication: Turkey
Language: ota
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Turkish Manuscripts; History
Other titles: el-Fülkü'l-meşḥūn bi'l-lu'lu'i'l-meknūn
Work titles: el-Fülk el-meşḥūn biʾl-luʾluʾ il-meknūn
Description: "Edifying tales in Turkish, mostly not longer than one page, derived from a large number of classical works in Arabic and Persian, with named authors and titles, and a few Turkish anecdotes sourced to “Tārīẖ-i H̱oca Efendi” (i.e. Tācü't-tevārīẖ) of Saʿdeddīn H̱oca (7 stories, f. 81a–85b). The author, a well-read ḳāżī in Istanbul, compiled and dedicated this work in fairly simple Turkish to Sultan Aḥmed III (f. 2b) and for the entertainment of that Sultan’s son-in-law “Dāmād-i meḥterem vezir-i ʿAżam-i mükerrem . . . İbrāhīm Paşa” (f. 3a), who served as Grand Vezir from 1718 to 1730." -- copied from Eleazar Birnbaum's Ottoman Turkish and Çagatay Manuscripts in Canada.
Notes: Layout: 27 lines per page; dimensions of the text 19 x 9 cm.

Script: Nesih.

Collation: Catchwords present at the end of leaves.

Binding: : Leather-edged flap binding; boards covered with worn ẖaṭīb ebrusupaper; backstrip roughly replaced with cloth; doublure of silken paper.

Decoration: Rather simple floral serlevḥa in gold, blue, yellow and red; first opening (f. 1b–2a) double framed in gold and blue; all other pages and each story title framed in red ink.

Support: Paper watermarked, with several designs: (1) closed Crown above a round Shield, within which are a Serpent (?), above a Maltese Cross; below the Shield the letters EB; (2) very small Crown with straight bottom, above a round Scarab or Grapes (?); (3) wide simple large Crown with Trefoil between the outer horns;(4) letters: – ASSE SAWAC 1754 or 1764 (?); (5)letters: – VIBAL (?); (6) letters FN.

Provenance: Eleazer Birnbaum -- leaf 1a

Text begins: ای نسخه عالمی و نصایح ایله مالامال و مجموعه ادمی پر عبر و امثال ایدن صانع حکیم... -- leaf 1b

Text ends: دفاتر سیئات خفیف کلوب اول بطاقه اغرکلور الله تعالینك اسمی مقابله سنده بر شی اغر کلمز. -- leaf 150a

Eleazar Birnbaum, Ottoman Turkish and Çagatay Manuscripts in Canada, 2015, 89.

Purchase; Kennys; 2020; MS.20.130.

Ottoman Turkish.

Fisher Birnbaum MSS Turkish copy: The Manuscript was bought by E. Birnbaum, July 1991.