Kâtip Çelebi (BIN ABDULLAH, Mustafa)

Maarif Matbaasi, 1941-43/1360-62. Two volumes. 2056 columns. Half-bound with marbled boards. erefettin Yaltkaya and Kilisli Rifat Bilge (eds.) Owner's signature (Arne Melvinger). A few pencil notations. Only the first and second volume of a six volume set. Volumes 1 and 2 consist of an introduction in Turkish and Kashf al- un n ‘an as m al-kutub wa-al-fun n. The other missing four volumes are addendums. Volumes 3 and 4 consist of al-makn n f al-dhayl al Kashf al- un n an as m al-kutub wa-al-fun n. Volumes 5 and 6 consist Hadiyat al-'arifin.Kâtip Çelebi was the pseudonym of Ottoman scholar Mu afa Ibn abd All h, also known as ajj Khal fa (1609-57). Kashf al- un n ‘an as m al-kutub wa-al-fun n is one of his most well-known works. It is a bibliographic encyclopedia, encompassing all genres of literature, in which 14,501 books written in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish are listed.