Sabab-i taqviyat al-taḥṣīl va najāt-i taṣnī‘ al-vaqt - سبب تقوية التحصيل ونحات تصنيع الوقت
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A Turki-Arabic-Persian lexicon, written by Muḥammad Karīm al-Bulghārī for students going from Qazan to Bukhara, likely in the first quarter of the 19th century CE. The work contains a collection of words common among the Tajiks of Bukhara and among the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, but not heard among the...
This volume contains the following two tracts : (I) ff 1v-32r : Hediyetü'l-hucaç, a guide to the Hajj by Hacı Abdullah en-Ansari written in 1229 AH (1813-14 CE) ; (II) ff 33v-52v : Ḥayāt al-arwāḥ wa najāt al-ashbāh (حياة الأرواح ونجاة الاشباه), an Arabic text on eschatology by Hacı İbrahim e...
This volume contains an extensive work on vegetable materia medica translated into Ottoman Turkish from a work of Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-77 CE), the author of a commentary on Dioscorides. The translator, Osman İbn-i Abdurrahman, Belgrad tercümanı, must be identical with Osman İbn-i Abdülme...
This volume contains the following tracts largely on the topic of divination : (I) ff 1v-6v : Şerh-i ruzname, followed by an Arabic poem about the Twelve Imams (ff 6r-v) ; (II) ff 6v-7r : Eyam-i nuhus, a short poem on the unlucky days ; (III) ff 7r-11r : A poem on the lucky and unlucky ass...