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Book/Printed Material Sketches from the Life of Mahmud Pasa. Menākıb-ı merhūm Mahmūd Paşa

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Title

  • Sketches from the Life of Mahmud Pasa.

Other Title

  • Menākıb-ı merhūm Mahmūd Paşa

Summary

  • This manuscript, completed by an anonymous scribe in 1716, is a copy of a late-15th century biography of Mahmud Pasha, who served as grand vizier to Sultan Mehmed II. Mahmud Pasha (surnamed Angelović) came from Byzantine Christian parents, and was known for his military leadership and his patronage of literature and the arts. He fell out of favor with the sultan and was executed in 1474. Mahmud Pasha was popular, and stories from his life were widely read. The author of the original 15th-century work is unknown. The manuscript is from the Bašagić Collection of Islamic Manuscripts in the University Library of Bratislava, Slovakia, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997. Safvet beg Bašagić (1870-1934) was a Bosnian scholar, poet, journalist, and museum director who assembled a collection of 284 manuscript volumes and 365 print volumes that reflect the development of Islamic civilization from its inception to the early 20th century. The manuscript is item 446 in Jozef Blaškovič, Arabské, turecké a perzské rukopisy Univerzitnej knižnice v Bratislave (Arab, Turkish, and Persian manuscripts in the University Library, Bratislava).

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1716.

Headings

  • -  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • -  Turkey
  • -  1470 to 1499
  • -  Biography
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 22.5 x 16 centimeters; red and black ink; leather hardcover.
  • -  Original resource at: University Library in Bratislava.
  • -  Content in Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928).
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667597

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Sketches from the Life of Mahmud Pasa. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1716] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667597/.

APA citation style:

(1716) Sketches from the Life of Mahmud Pasa. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667597/.

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Sketches from the Life of Mahmud Pasa. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1716] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667597/>.