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Ankara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, cilt.65, sa.2, ss.967-991, 2024 (Scopus, TRDizin)
In a manuscript of al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ by Majd al-Dīn al-Fīrūzābādī, registered under number 5225 in the Fatih Collection, there is a note written by a ḥāfiẓ al-kutub. This note contains two significant observations: first, that the manuscript was among the books endowed in the name of Sultan Mehmed 2, and second, that it had missing folios. The question of how the ḥāfiẓ al-kutub could have reached these two conclusions is the starting point of this article. Upon examining the manuscript, I discovered that it was neither missing any folios nor was it the original copy endowed in the name of Sultan Mehmed 2. It appears that the original manuscript, likely lost in the early 1900s, had been replaced with this copy containing the ḥāfiẓ al-kutub’s note. The missing original manuscript had reportedly been endowed to a library in Erzincan but was likely displaced during the Russian occupation. It subsequently made its way to the British Museum before being sold by the Museum to the University of Michigan in 1924. The manuscript is currently housed in the University of Michigan’s Tiflis Collection.