Sinan's Autobiographies

Five Sixteenth-Century Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-14168-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 269 mm, Gewicht: 2177 g

Reihe: Muqarnas, Supplements

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 'Adsız Risale', the 'RisÄletü'l-MiÊ¿mÄriyye', 'Tuḥfetü'l-MiÊ¿mÄrÄ«n', 'Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye' and 'Teẕkiretü’l-BünyÄn', that provide details of his life and works. Based on information dictated by Sinan to his poet-painter friend Mustafa SaÊ¿i Çelebi shortly before his death, these accounts 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, and 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; and a preface that considers the sources, themes, and broader implications of the five autobiographies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crane, Howard

Akin, Esra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: “Sources, Themes, and Cultural Implications of Sinan’s Autobiographies” by Gülru Necipoqlu
Authors’ Notes and Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
Abbreviations
Introduction.
Synopsis of Relationships between Texts and Manuscripts Works Cited
Adsæz Risale (AR) [Untitled Treatise]
Ris¸letü’l-Mi{m¸riyye, (RM) [Treatise on Architecture]
Tu¥fetü’l-Mi{m¸rºn (TM) [Choice Gift of the Architects]
Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye (TE) [Record of Buildings]
Tezkiretü’l-Büny¸n (TB) [Record of Construction]
Collations of Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye
Collations of Tezkiretü’l-Büny¸n
Note on the Format of Appendices
Appendix I: Citation Index of Buildings Listed in Tezkiretü’l-niye
Appendix II: Sequence of Citations in Inventories Listed in Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye
Appendix III: Comparison of Prose Introduction in AR, RM, TM, and TE
Facsimiles
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Crane is Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in the Department of History of Art at the Ohio State University.
Esra Akin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art at the Ohio State University and is currently completing on her dissertation on Mustafa Ali’s Epic Deeds of Artists.
Gülru Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.