A collection of Maps of China, drawn by M. Klaproth, from Chinese authorities, with the names translated by him partly into German, partly into French.
A collection of Oriental Manuscripts, from No. 16,637 to No. 16,880 inclusive, presented by the sons of Major William Yule, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, in Bengal
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. A fuller description of them will be found in the General Catalogues of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts.
KITABI ADABU-L-HARB, a work on the Art of War, by Muhammad Mansúr Sa'íd; in Persian. xviith cent. Octavo. [16,853.] Austria: Summary of the Law of Upper Austria: German. Adabu-l-Harb: Manuscript: Pers.
Vocabularium Sinico-Mantschuico-Ruthenum, juxta ordinem rerum compositum ab Alexei Leontieff, anno 1773, cum interpretatione Germanica Gerhardi Martens . . . . Author: Leontīev, Aleksi͡eĭ, -1786
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Dictionary compiled by Aleksi͡eĭ Leontīev in 1773, based on a Chinese-Manchu classified vocabulary. Manchu and Chinese entries above, and Russian entries below. After folio 41, it is interleaved with a German transliteration, by Gerhard Mertens in 1782) on pale blue paper. Language. Dictionari...
This manuscript contains a copy of the poem Gülşen-i Envar by Yahya Bey of the Dukagjini family of Albania. It was likely composed during his exile in the Sancak of Zvornik, Bosnia. On f 1r, the following text is written in Ottoman Turkish: Martin 1849 Ayntab bir Şam'da nusuh olunmuştur. Ano...
This volume contains the Divan of Haleti. The author designates himself by his mahlas only, which is found at the end of the gazeller and in the last verse of the first piece. The Divan is of a mystical and religious character throughout. It contains several pieces in praise of the celebrated ...
This volume contains a tabulated version of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, German, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman