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Collection Area Oriental Manuscripts Subject Encyclopaedias

1. Add MS 7446

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Add MS 7446
Title:
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون Kâtip Çelebi كاتب چلبي
Scope & Content:
Bibliographical encyclopaedia by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حجي خليفة). The work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the science (ff. 1v-21v), followed ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Rabīʿ II 1170
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+339+ii

2. Add MS 7556, ff 96v-141v

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Add MS 7556, ff 96v-141v
Title:
Rawḍat al-fuhūm fī naẓm nuqāyat al-ʻulūm روضة الفهوم في نظم نقاية العلوم Sunbāṭī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq سنباطي، أحمد بن عبد الحق
Scope & Content:
Didactic poem (أرجوزة) by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sunbāṭī (أحمد ابن أحمد ابن عبد الحقّ السنباطي, d. 1582 or 1574), versifying the Selection of Sciences (نقاية العلوم) by Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī (جلال الدين عبد الرحمن بن أبي بكر السيوطي, d. 1505). Al-Suyūṭī...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 96v-141v

3. Add MS 7898

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Add MS 7898
Title:
Netaicu'l-fünun ve mehasinü'l-mütun - نتائج الفنون و محاسن المتون
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an encyclopedia of twelve sciences compiled by Nev'i. The author, who designates himself by this mahlas, was Yahya İbn-i Pir Ali İbn-i Nasuh, the son of a Şeyh of Malgara. Born there in 940 AH (1533-34 CE), he became one of the eminent Ulema and poets of the reign of Murat I...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 117 ff

4. Add MS 7899

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Add MS 7899
Title:
Netaicu'l-fünun - نتائج الفنون
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an encyclopedia of twelve sciences compiled by Nev'i. The author, who designates himself by this mahlas, was Yahya İbn-i Pir Ali İbn-i Nasuh, the son of a Şeyh of Malgara. Born there in 940 AH (1533-34 CE), he became one of the eminent Ulema and poets of the reign of Murat I...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 90 ff

5. Add MS 9589

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Add MS 9589
Title:
Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, vols. 14 and 15 مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار، السفر ١٤ والسفر ١٥ Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī ابن فضل الله العمري
Scope & Content:
A section of Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār (مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار), a 27-volume geographical, historical and biographical compendium by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī (أحمد بن يحي بن فضل الله العمري, d. 1349). The present copy corresponds to volume 14 in which al-ʻ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+250+i

6. Add MS 23492

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Add MS 23492
Title:
Khazīndār, Al-Ḥājj Luṭf Allāh الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار [Mukhtaṣar kashf al-ẓunūn مختصر كشف الظنون]
Scope & Content:
A summary by al-Ḥajj Luṭf Allāh, known as al-Khazīndār (الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار; see f. 2v, lines 5-6), based on the bibliographical encyclopaedia completed in about 1062/1652 by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كات...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1245
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+284+iv

7. Delhi Arabic 994

Reference (shelfmark):
Delhi Arabic 994
Title:
Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn كشاف اصطلاحات الفنون Tahānawī, Muḥammad Aʿlá ibn ʻAlī تهانوي، محمد أعلى بن علي
Scope & Content:
Encyclopaedia of technical terminology for self-teaching by the Mughal scholar Muḥammad Aʻlá ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Qāḍī Muḥammad Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir al-Fārūqī al-Tahānawī (محمد أعلى بن علي بن القاضي محمد حامد بن محمد بن صابر الفاروقي التهانوي, d. after 1745). After a long introduction (vol. 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Two codices; ff. ix+264+iii and xi+304+iii

8. Or 1136

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1136
Title:
Netaicu'l-fünun ve mehasinü'l-mütun - نتائج الفنون و محاسن المتون
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an encyclopedia of twelve sciences compiled by Nev'i. The author, who designates himself by this mahlas, was Yahya İbn-i Pir Ali İbn-i Nasuh, the son of a Şeyh of Malgara. Born there in 940 AH (1533-34 CE), he became one of the eminent Ulema and poets of the reign of Murat I...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 text, 110 ff

9. Or 7335

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 7335
Title:
Netaicu'l-fünun ve mehasinü'l-mütun - تنائج الفنون و محاسن المتون
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an encyclopedia compiled by Nev'i Yahya Efendi (died 1007 AH/1598-99 CE) of the following sciences: Tarih (f 6r) Hikmet (f 39r) Hey'et (f 43v) Kelam (f 51v) Usul-i fikh (f 58r) Hilaf (f 62v) Tefsir (f 66v) Tasavvuf (f 71r) Azaim (f 79r) Tıp (f 83r) Felahat (f 86v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1018
Extent:
1 text, 113 ff

10. Or 8254

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8254
Title:
Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ رسائل إخوان الصفاء Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ إخوان الصفاء
Scope & Content:
The second volume (المجلد الثاني, probably of an original three) of the well-known Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (رسائل إخوان الصفاء, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), compiled by an anonymous group calling themselves Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafāʾ ( إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء, Brethren of Puri...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
644
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+279+i