MARIFETNAME, IBRAHIM HAKKI, COPIED BY SAE'D ALLAH BIN ALI BIN AHMED, TURKEY, 1221 AH/1806 ADArabic and Turkish manuscript on paper,360 leaves35 lines to the page,written in neat naskh script, subheadings in ruby red, margins ruled in black, red and gold,illuminated headpieceprising foliate motifs in colours and gold, the manuscriptprising various coloured maps, tables and charts, florally-illuminated colophon, 2 further illuminated headpieces, red binding with gold gilt-stamped cartouches decorated with interlacing vines, with flap. The Marifetname is an encyclopedia of cosmological topics put together by Erzurumlu Ibrahim Haqqi in 1170 AH/1756-7 AD.The planispheric maps were drawn by Sae’d Allah bin Ali, and were based on the Dutch cartographer Joan Blae’s (d.1673) Atlas Major.Two further copies of Haqqi’s Ma’rifetnama, both dating from the first quarter of the nineteenth century, can be found in the British Library (4) and Nasser D. Khalili Collection, London.folios: 12 by 23 cm.Book: 19 by 30 cm.