Sinan's autobiographies five sixteenth-century texts - Sinan, Mimar (Brill, 2006)
Critical edition of Sinan's five autobiographical texts. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Contents -- PREFACE: SOURCES, THEMES, AND CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF S304;NAN8217;S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -- AUTHORS8217; NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- SYNOPSIS OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS -- WORKS CITED -- [UNTITLED TREATISE] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [TREATISE ON ARCHITECTURE] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [CHOICE GIFT OF THE ARCHITECTS] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [RECORD OF BUILDINGS] -- Translation -- Transcription -- [RECORD OF CONSTRUCTION] -- Translation -- Transcription -- COLLATIONS OF TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-EBN304;YE -- COLLATIONS OF TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-B220;NY256;N -- NOTE ON THE FORMAT OF APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I CITATION INDEX OF BUILDINGS LISTED IN TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-EBN304;YE FRIDAY MOSQUES -- APPENDIX II SEQUENCE OF CITATIONS IN INVENTORIES LISTED IN TEZK304;RET220;8217;L-EBN304;YE FRIDAY MOSQUES -- APPENDIX III COMPARISON OF PROSE INTRODUCTION IN AR, RM, TM, AND TE -- FACSIMILES -- TKS Ar351;ivi, D 1461/3 (AR) -- TKS Ar351;ivi, D 1461/4 (RM and TM) -- Ayverdi Manuscript (S) -- S252;leymaniye, Hac230; Mahmud 4911 (Hm 4911) -- S252;leymaniye, Nuri Arlasez 81/18211;2 (NA) -- INDEX.
The sixteenth century Ottoman architect Sinan is today universally recognized as the defining figure in the development of the classical Ottoman style. In addition to his vast oeuvre, he left five remarkable autobiographical accounts, the so-called "Adsiz Risale", the "Risaletu'l-Mi'mariyye", "Tuhfetu'l-Mi'marin", "Tezkiretu'l-Mi'mariyye" and "Tezkiretu'l-Bunyan" that provide details of his life and works. Based on information dictated by Sinan to his poet friend Mustafa Sa'i Celebi shortly before his death, they exist in multiple manuscript versions in libraries in Istanbul, Ankara, and Cairo. The present volume contains critical editions of all five texts, along with transcriptions, annotated translations, facsimiles of the most important variant versions, and an introductory essay that analyzes the various surviving manuscripts, reconstructs their histories, and establishes the relationships between them