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Mimar Sinan - <div style="text-align: left;">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 <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Adsız Risale</span>, the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye</span>, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn</span>, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </span>and <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Teẕkiretü’l-Bünyān</span>, that provide details of his life and works. Based on information dictated by Sinan to his poet-painter friend Mustafa Saʿi 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. Supplements to Muqarnas, Volume 11.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">The file associated with this record includes the front matter and table of contents. For the contents, see the following links below:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13432" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Preface</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13433" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Author's Notes</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13434" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Introduction</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13435" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Adsız Risale</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13436" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13437" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13438" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13439" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Teẕkiretü’l-Bünyān</a><br></div><div><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13440" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Collations of <span style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye</span></a><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://archnet.org/publications/13441" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Collations of <span style="font-style: italic;">Teẕkiretü’l-Bünyān</span></a><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13442" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Appendices</a></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://archnet.org/publications/13444" target="_blank" data-bypass="true">Index</a></div>

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2006

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 Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye, Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn, Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye, and Teẕkiretü’l-Bünyān, that provide details of his life and works. Based on information dictated by Sinan to his poet-painter friend Mustafa Saʿi 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. Supplements to Muqarnas, Volume 11.