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Author:
İshak Hocası, Şemseddin Ahmed b. Hayreddin el-Güzelhisarî el-Aydınî, 1120/1708, إسحق خواجه سى، شمس الدين أحمد بن خير الدين الگوزلحصاري الآيديني

Bibliography about the author:
Atsız, H. Nihal (1972). ''İshak Hocası veyâ Ahmed Rızâî'', Türk Ansiklopedisi. C.XX. Ankara: MEB Yay. 232. Sofuoğlu, Nesrin. “İshak Hocası Ahmed Güzelhisârî’nin Hayatı, Eserleri ve Edebi Kişiliği”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 39 (Haziran 2014), 73-98.

Publications of the Work
: It was published in Istanbul in 2 volumes under the name of Aksa'l-ereb, in H 1313 (1895/96).

Copies:
There are more than 60 manuscripts and more than 40 printed copies of the work in libraries in Turkey.

Content:
It is a translation of Cârullâh Zamakhsharî's Muḳaddimat al-adab. It is this work that brought Ishaq Hodja his fame. The original work consists of two main sections on nouns and verbs. However, at the beginning of the translation, Ahmed Efendi added two long introductions, one in Arabic and the other in Persian. Arabic words are first given their Persian equivalents and then their Turkish translations. The words are not given in alphabetical order but in a conceptual classification such as time, sky, earth, plants, etc.

Binding:
Brown leather binding with medallion, chain ornament and flap.
The paper is watermarked and burnished. Red ink was used for titling, underlining, pagination and remarks. It is in red. The title illumination is painted but left blank inside. Gilt ruler on title-piece, (1b-2a) rulers on other pages are in red ink. There is no external ruler, but it is observed in the notes in the marginalia that there is a ruler.

Ia Explanation about the parts of the work:
/ İş bu mukaddimetü’l-edeb dört kısım üzere tertip olunmuştur. Kısm-ı evvel lugatün arabiyyetün, kısm-ı sânî lugatün fârisiyyetün, kısm-ı sâlis esmâ, kısm-ı râbi’ efâldir

Ib - IIIa / Index:
The index in the form of a table belongs to the esmāʾ and efāl sections. At the end of the table is the expression “temmet” indicating the completion of the index.

IVa / Copying Record of Fahreddin bin Sharafuddin :
Şerrefenî Allah bi tahrîri hâza’l-kitâbu’l-müsemma bi tercemeti mukaddimetü’l-edeb li’l-allâme mine’l-meşhûr bi Hoca Ahmed Efendi ve ene’l-fakîr ilallahi’l-meliki’l-kadîr Fahreddin bin Şerefüddin min evlâdi ibnü’l-eşrâf er-Rumî el-İznikî

IVa / Ownership Record of Fehim Süleyman:
Elhamdülillahi vahdehû. Min mineni’l-kerîmi’l-hannân alâ abdihî Fehîm Süleymân el-müderris bi-medreseti Alî Paşa-yı cedîd bâ-mevsıla-i Süleymaniye kâtibü’s-sırr hazret-i şehriyârî-i sâbıkan gaferallâhu lehû ve limen deâ lehû bi’l-hayri ve’r-rahmeti sene 1195 [1780-81]

IVa / Ownership Record with deleted name:
Kad dehalet et-terceme fî zâviyeti tasarrufî bi cereyân aklâmî ve ene’l-fakîr [Fahreddin] – the name and the seal underneath have been erased.

1a-1b / Endowment seal belongong to Hafız Ahmed Agha:
Sâbıkan rikâbdâr-ı hazret-i şehriyârî Rodosî Hafız Ahmed Ağa’nın cezîre-i mezbûrda bina eylediği kitâbhanesinin kütüb-i mevkûfesidir 1207 (148b-418b-419b)

419b / Note on the verbatim copying of the copying record in the source manuscript:
Müellif nüshasında böylece kitabet olunduğuna binaen bu mahalde teberrüken biz dahi kitabet ettik.

419b / The copy record of the source manuscript:
Kad isterâhat kadîmetü’l-kalem ani’s-seyâha fî meyâdîni’t-terceme ve’r-rakam li’l-kısmı’s-sânî ‘anî kısmu’l-ef‘âl min mukaddimeti’l-edeb li’l-allâme ez-Zemahşerî bi zımm-i fevâid hüccetin tüfîdü li râgibî sınâ‘ati’l-edeb bi ibretin fî evâil-i üli’l-cemâzîn min şuhûri sene-i hicriyye fî seb‘a ve aşer ba‘de mie ve elf (1117[1715]) fî mahrûse-i Bursa hammiyet ani’d-darrâi ve’l-be’sâ ve küntü vakte izin müderrisen bi’l-medreseti’l-murâdiyye fîhâ velhamdülillahi rabbi’l-âlemîn temmet

419b / Copying Record:
Kad istensahtü hâzihi’nüsha an nüshati’l-mütercim ve ene’l-fakîr Fahreddin an evlâdi’l-Eşref er-Rûmî el-Kâdirî

420b / Fevâid on how halvah makers boil syrup:
çünki helvacıların istimal ettiklerinin [...] Evvela bir küçük toprak tencereye bir miktar su koya ba‘dehû ateş üzere bindire ba‘dehû […] koya ta kaynaya suyun rengi tağyir edince ba‘dehû süze suyun ala posasını ata ba‘dehû […] ede ayrı ayrı ibtidâ ol suya katıp ateşte kaynata bir miktar ki boyası suya tesir ede ba‘dehû […] kata kaynata tecribe-i tabh oldur ki bir kağıt üzere bir hilal ucuyla tamlata …

Margins:
Although the density of the marginalia is high on some pages, it is generally low. There are headings such as fasl and bab in the margins. There are minhîyât records. There are remarks in the form of sahh, tı ayın, mim and numerals.

Some notes on the manuscript:
This manuscript was copied in 1715 by Fahreddin bin Şerefeddin, who was serving as a lecturer at the Muradiye Madrasa in Bursa at the time. The colophon indicates that the manuscript was copied directly from the original source.
Throughout its historical journey, the manuscript has been associated with several ownership records. The first recorded owner was Ahmed Ağazade el-Bağdadi. Later, it was acquired by Fehim Süleyman during his tenure as a lecturer at the Ali Paşa-yı Cedid Madrasa.
The journey of the manuscript, which began in Bursa, concluded when it was endowed by Hafız Ahmed Ağa to the library he established in Rhodes.