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Collection Area Oriental Manuscripts Place Cairo, Egypt

1. Add MS 7853

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Add MS 7853
Title:
Tuhfetü'l-haremeyn - تحفة الحرمين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an account of the poet Yusuf Nabi's journey to Makkah and Madinah, in mixed prose and verse. The author, after obtaining leave from the Vezir Mustafa Damat (Kara Mustafa), set out from Üsküdar in 1089 AH (1678-79 CE) and traveled by way of Konya, Roha (Urfa), Aleppo, Damasc...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1099
Extent:
1 text, 76 ff

2. Add MS 24957

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Add MS 24957
Title:
Tezkire-yi eş-şuara - تذكرۀ الشعراء
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the biographies of Ottoman Turkish poets, with copious poetical quotations, compiled by Hasan İbn-i Ali İbn-i Emrullah, commonly known as Kınalızade. Hasan Çelebi was born in 953 AH (1546-47 CE) in Bursa, where his father, Ali Çelebi Kınalızade, filled the office of Müderri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1021
Extent:
1 text, 312 ff

3. Or 1036

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Or 1036
Title:
Fazailü'l-Cihad - فضائل الجهاد
Scope & Content:
This volume, entitled The Merits of Jihad, contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Arabic work Mashāriᶜ al-ashwaq ilá maṣāriᶜ al-ᶜushshaq of Aḥmad bin Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī. The translator, who calls himself Abdülbaki, is the famous poet known by the mahlas of Baki. Like Hafız, the great Ot...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1249
Extent:
1 text, 203 ff

4. Or 1138

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Or 1138
Title:
Hümayun-name - همايون نامه
Scope & Content:
The fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. Ali Çelebi was a native of Edirne and was commonly known as Vasi' Alisi because he had started his career as assistant, or müeyyid, to the professor Mevlana Abdulvasi'. Abd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
959
Extent:
1 text, 374 ff

5. Or 3297

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Or 3297
Title:
Ha[za kit]ab Tezkiretü'l-evliya ve bihi nestamin - هذ[ا كت]اب تذكرة الاوليا و به نستعمين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains anecdotes of holy personages. The writer, who does not give their name, says that the best means to keep steadfast in the faith, and to escape from the contamination of a wicked world, is to dwell on the lives of the saints, and their merits. This induced him to translate a ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
985
Extent:
1 text, 149 ff

6. Or 4128

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Or 4128
Title:
Ayat ül-başair ve gayât üs-serair - آيات البشائر و غايات السرائر
Scope & Content:
This volume contains poems, mainly ghazals, composed by Ruhi al-Mamluk, whose personal name, as it appears in the colophon, was Qaraca. It is also mentioned in the same place that the poet belonged to the Tarikatu''l-arbain, and this is borne out by his poetry, which is in an Oghuz dialect and c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
886
Extent:
1 text, 68 ff

7. Or 7973

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Or 7973
Title:
Divan-i Hayreti - ديوان جيرتى
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collected poetry of Hayreti (died 941 AH/1534-35 CE), which begins with gazeller. They are interspersed with other types of poems and there has been some confusion in the binding. There are lacunae after ff 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, and 29: f 34 shou...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
961
Extent:
1 text, 119 ff

8. Or 9728

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Or 9728
Title:
Nasihatu'l-müluk - نسيحة الملوك
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on polity in 12 fusul of which the first two deal with the idea of sovereignty among the Selcuk and Ottoman Turks. A terminus ante quem for the date of composition of the text is provided by the mention of the conquest of Egypt by Selim I. The author (who may be...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
967
Extent:

1 text, 66 ff

9. Or 11128

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Or 11128
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This codex contains the following texts : ff 1r-182v : Hadikatu'l-suada, composed by Füzuli, preceded by some poems by Asari and other poets, all copied by Derviş Salih in Cairo in 1034 AH (1624 CE); ff 183r-212v : Kasideler in praise of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم and the Imams, followed by re...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:

5 texts, 341 ff

10. Or 11225

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Or 11225
Title:
Tuhfetü'l-ahbab - تحفة الاحباب
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on chess written in the year 1087 AH (1676-77 CE) by Şeyh Mehmet el-Mevlevi for the entertainment of Arnavut Abdurrahman Abdi Paşa, Vali of Egypt, in his leisure time. The text is divided into a mukaddime, four ebvap subdivided into fusul, and a hatime. In a med...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1091
Extent:
1 text, 89 ff