The Topkapı Manuscript of Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh (H. 1654) from Rashidiya to the Ottoman Court (original) (raw)

Abstract

The famous manuscript of Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh (Hazine 1654) has never been studied with the care it deserves. Since its transcription had been completed a year before Rashid al-Din’s execution, it remained unfinished while approximately seven illustrations were inserted into it, and the locations of other illustrations were left empty. Careful examination of the manuscript reveals that almost all of the empty spaces left for illustrations were painted during the fourteenth-century. Having decided to increase the quality of the manuscript, the kitābkhāna of Shahrukh, in the fifteenth-century, completed the lost passages of text and restored or overpainted some of its illustrations. The dedicatory inscription of Farhad Khan Qaramanlu indicates that the manuscript was refurbished again in the Safavid period. The last artistic addition to the manuscript was overpainting an illustration in the Ottoman court. The paper is a result of the examination of the original manuscript and explains the complicated history of the book.

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