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This volume contains Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha’s (died 1103 AH/1692 CE) grammatical commentary on the Pandnama, the famous mystical and didactic work in Persian attributed to the renowned poet and Sufi Farid al-Din Attar (died 618 AH/1221 CE). As well as being a clerk and statesman, Abdi Pasha was...
A medical treatise, composed and named for a certain Şeyh Kemalüddin. The author, who is not named, evidently belonged to the Sufi milieu in Bursa. The last part of the work consists of healing invocations. He mentions in the preface that having treated Şeyh Kemalüddin he was moved to write down...
Collection of poetical works by İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi
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This volume contains poetical works by the celebrated scholar, Sufi, and poet İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (1115-1194 AH/1703-1780 CE). Renowned in his lifetime for his piety, Hakkı was one of the great Ottoman mystical poets. In addition to his poetry, he also composed the Marifetname, a well-known c...
Mecmuat resail fîhâ risalet ceyb'ül-afakı ve gayrühâ - مجموعه رسائل فيها رسالة جيب الآفاقى وغيرها
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Nine treatises in Arabic and/or Ottoman Turkish, on navigation and astronomy. 1 (1v-13v, margin): Rüb‘ ceyb-i Selimi, A treatise on the ceyp or quadrant, comprising an introduction (mukaddime) and 25 chapters (bāb). In Ottoman Turkish. The diagram on f 14r for finding the direction of prayer, h...
This volume contains the Divan of the Sufi poet Hayreti (died 941 AH/1534 CE). He was born in Giannitsa (Turkish. Vardar Yenicesi) in northern Greece and given the name Mehmed. Both he and his brother, the Mevlevi şeyh Yusuf-ı Sineçak, were disciples of Şeyh İbrâhim Gülşenî. Hayreti later became...
This volume contains the collected poetry of Neccarzade Mustafa Rıza (died 1159 AH/1746 CE), a poet and a şeyh of the Nakşibendi-Müceddidi Sufi order. Born in 1090 AH/1679 CE, Neccarzade Rıza lived most of his life in Beşiktaş, where he studied at the Sinan Paşa Medrese. He initially became a d...
Manuscript containing two medical texts in Ottoman Turkish
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This volume contains two medical texts in Ottoman Turkish. Its contents are as follows: Or 16237 (1) Nidai’s Menafi'u’n-nas, between ff 3v-78r. Or 16237(2) Risale-i Tıbbi’n-Nebi, follows the above text, and is 42 pages. For more on each work, see their individual title entries.
This volume contains the Vasiyetname (also known often as Risale-i Birgivi) of the Ottoman teacher and scholar Birgivi (Birgili) Mehmed Efendi (929–81 AH/1523–73 CE). He composed the work around the year 970 AH/1562-3 CE. It is one of many popular works he authored in the category of exhortation...