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CONTENTS VOLUME I: ESSAYS PREFACE BY THE EDITORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  XI Overview and Significance of the Palace Library Inventory 1. Gülru Necİpoğlu, The Spatial Organization of Knowledge in the Ottoman Palace Library: An Encyclopedic Collection and Its Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    1 2. Cemal Kafadar, Between Amasya and Istanbul: Bayezid II, His Librarian, and the Textual Turn of the Late Fifteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  79 3. Cornell H. Fleischer, Learning and Sovereignty in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 155 The Palace Library as a Collection and the Book Arts 4. Zeynep Atbaş, Artistic Aspects of Sultan Bayezid II’s Book Treasury Collection: Extant Volumes Preserved at the Topkapı Palace Museum Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  161 5. Zeren Tanındı, Arts of the Book: The Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscripts Listed in ʿAtufiji’s Inventory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 6. Judith Pfeiffer, “The Ottoman Muse Fluttered, but Poorly Winged”: Müeyyedzade, Bayezid II, and the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Literary Canon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Book Titles and Their Disciplines in the Palace Library Inventory 7. Mohsen Goudarzi, Books on Exegesis (tafsīr) and Qurʾanic Readings (qirāʾāt): Inspiration, Intellect, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Post-Classical Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  267 8. Recep Gürkan Göktaş, On the Hadith Collection of Bayezid II’s Palace Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  309 9. Guy Burak, The Sectio n on Prayers, Invocations, Unique Qualities of the Qurʾan, and Magic Squares in the Palace Library Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  341 10. Abdurrahman Atçıl, The kalām (Rational Theology) Section in the Palace Library Inventory . . . . . . . 367 Inhoud Contents v Gülru Necİpoğlu 1 In Memory of Alpay Özdural and his Unrealized Book Project 1 Gülru Necİpoğlu 11 Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences 11 74 Elaheh Kheirandish 79 An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources 79 139 JAN P. HOGENDIJK 145 A MATHEMATICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE CONTENTS OF AN ANONYMOUS PERSIAN COMPENDIUM ON DECORATIVE PATTERNS 145 162 Alpay Özdural 163 Preliminaries 163 174 Facsimile 1 vi Contents 11. Hİmmet Taşkömür, Books on Islamic Jurisprudence, Schools of Law, and Biographies of Imams from the Hanafiji School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 12. Mürteza Bedİr, Books on Islamic Legal Theory (uṣūl al-fijiqh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 13. Cemal Kafadar and Ahmet Karamustafa, Books on Sufijism, Lives of Saints, Ethics, and Sermons   439 14. Hüseyİn Yılmaz, Books on Ethics and Politics: The Art of Governing the Self and Others at the Ottoman Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509 15. Nükhet Varlık, Books on Medicine: Medical Knowledge at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  527 16. Aleksandar Shopov, “Books on Agriculture (al-fijilāḥa) Pertaining to Medical Science” and Ottoman Agricultural Science and Practice around 1500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  557 17. Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahİn, On the Works of a Historical Nature in the Bayezid II Library Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 18. Pınar Emİralİoğlu, Books on the Wonders of Creation and Geography in ʿAtufiji’s Inventory . . . . . . . . 597 19. Tahera Qutbuddin, Books on Arabic Philology and Literature: A Teaching Collection Focused on Religious Learning and the State Chancery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  607 20. Sooyong Kim, An Ottoman Order of Persian Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 21. Christopher Markiewicz, Books on the Secretarial Arts and Literary Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 22. Ferenc Csirkés, Turkish/Turkic Books of Poetry, Turkish and Persian Lexicography: The Politics of Language under Bayezid II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  673 23. Noah Gardiner, Books on Occult Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  735 24. A. Tunç Şen and Cornell H. Fleischer, Books on Astrology, Astronomical Tables, and Almanacs in the Library Inventory of Bayezid II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 25. Jamil Ragep, Sally Ragep, Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan, Fateme Savadi, and Hasan Umut (McGill Team), Astronomical and Other Mathematical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  823 26. Elaheh Kheirandish, Books on Mathematical and Mixed-Mathematical Sciences: Arithmetic, Geometry, Optics, and Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 27. Khaled El-Rouayheb, Books on Logic (manṭiq) and Dialectics (jadal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  891 28. Dimitri Gutas, Philosophical Manuscripts: Two Alternative Philosophies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907 Contents vii APPENDICES Appendix I-III: Some Identified Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II’s Seal APPENDIX I: Zeynep Atbaş, Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II’s Seal in the Topkapı Palace Museum Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  937 APPENDIX II: Zeren Tanındı, Preliminary List of Manuscripts Stamped with Bayezid II’s Seal and Transferred from the Topkapı Palace Inner Treasury to Other Library Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   983 APPENDIX III WITH PLATES FROM MANUSCRIPTS AT THE TOPKAPI PALACE MUSEUM LIBRARY: Gülru Necİpoğlu, 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 . . .   1011 Appendix IV-V: English Translations of the Librarian ʿAtufi’s Ottoman Turkish and Arabic Prefaces to the Palace Library Inventory APPENDIX IV: Gülru Necİpoğlu, Translation of ʿAtufiji’s Ottoman Turkish Preface to the Palace Library Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1077 APPENDIX V: Mohsen Goudarzi, Translation of ʿAtufiji’s Arabic Preface to the Palace Library Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . .  1079 VOLUME VOLUME II: TRANSLITERATION AND FACSIMILE REGISTER OF BOOKS (KITĀB AL-KUTUB) MS Török F. 59, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyüjtemény (Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Principles Observed in Transliterating MS Török F. 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1 Transliterated Text of MS Török F. 59, prepared by Hİmmet Taşkömür and Hesna Ergun Taşkömür . . .    5 Facsimile of MS Török F. 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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